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Flanagan's novel confirms Yeats's worst fears: in Flanagan's Ireland, as in Yeats's version of his native land, the center has not held; the worst are full of passionate intensity; romantic Ireland's dead and gone; gombeen men, fumbling in a greasy till, or bloodthirsty political romantics, have inherited the earth. |
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