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Join Major Sinclair Yates, a recently discharged army officer, as he embarks on a new adventure in the enchanting yet challenging landscape of 1890s West Ireland. In this delightful first novel co-authored by Edith Somerville and her cousin Violet Martin, we witness Yates humorous escapades as he navigates the complexities of his role as a Resident Magistrate. With his spirited landlord and neighbor, Mr. ‘Flurry’ Knox—whose heart lies solely in hunting—Yates journey is filled with amusing encounters and cultural clashes. Notably, Miss Somerville made history as the first woman to ...

The Irish R.M. is a series of books set in the turn-of-the-20th-century west of Ireland. The humor in this audiobook is greatly enhanced if the listener has a broad understanding of the history of Ireland's relationship with England, and how Ireland was governed, as well as the Irish country way of life. The show isn't political, although caricatures of Irish and British people are used for the benefits of humorous purposes.

BBC productions of the best-known works of Somerville and Ross, plus a docudrama about their remarkable literary partnership Edith Œnone Somerville and 'Martin Ross' (the pen name of Violet Florence Martin) were cousins, born into the Irish landed gentry in the mid-19th century. They began...