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review The Cornet Player Who Betrayed Ireland Ö eBook or Kindle ePUB characters ð eBook or Kindle ePUB ✓ Frank O’Connor 'Father' I said feeling I might as well get it over while I had him in a good humour 'I had it all arranged to kill my grandmother'Praised as Ireland's Chekhov Frank O'Connor was a modern master of the shor. This book is one of the Mini Modern Classics a series of fifty novellas and mini collections published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Penguin Modern ClassicsThere are four stories in Frank O Connor s The Cornet Player Who Betrayed Ireland all of which in their different ways look at the effect of broader social forces on the lives of ordinary individuals The cornet player of the title story is Mick Twomey the only supporter of William O Brien in a brass band whose other members support O Brien s rival political leader John Redmond normally they put their differences aside in the name of music but now the band is due to play at a reception for a visit by Redmond and relations between Mick and his bandmates change irrevocably O Connor s focus here is firmly on his characters with the politics in the background his narrator is Mick s son who understands little than that his neighbourhood is in favour of O Brien and against Redmond there s a gradual grinding and thoroughly believeable inevitability to the way Mick and the band become estrangedThe three other stories in the collection retain this focus on character but in rather different contexts First Confession is the lightest in tone as a seven year old boy gives confession for the first time and his sister who was taunting him over the possible conseuences is infuriated to find that the outcome is not what she d expected Guests of the Nation tells of two Irish soldiers who have befriended their English prisoners despite the knowledge that the order to execute them may come at any time O Connor draws an effective contrast between the impersonal orders being issued by commanders and the reality of the soldiers lives on the ground The final piece A Story by Maupassant is perhaps the most intensely focused on character of all in its depiction of a man who comes to realise that his life has become the very thing at which he laughed dismissively as a child Hell in a Handbasket Devilish Debutantes #2 rival political leader John Redmond normally they put their differences aside in the name of music but now the band is due to play at a Say Your Abc With Me reception for a visit by Redmond and The Outcast Dead relations between Mick and his bandmates change irrevocably O Connor s focus here is firmly on his characters with the politics in the background his narrator is Mick s son who understands little than that his neighbourhood is in favour of O Brien and against Redmond there s a gradual grinding and thoroughly believeable inevitability to the way Mick and the band become estrangedThe three other stories in the collection ಅಮ್ಮಾವ್ರ ಗಂಡ retain this focus on character but in Potato Surprise A Brimstone Preuel rather different contexts First Confession is the lightest in tone as a seven year old boy gives confession for the first time and his sister who was taunting him over the possible conseuences is infuriated to find that the outcome is not what she d expected Guests of the Nation tells of two Irish soldiers who have befriended their English prisoners despite the knowledge that the order to execute them may come at any time O Connor draws an effective contrast between the impersonal orders being issued by commanders and the Winning The Player reality of the soldiers lives on the ground The final piece A Story by Maupassant is perhaps the most intensely focused on character of all in its depiction of a man who comes to Hell for the Company Brimstone #1 realise that his life has become the very thing at which he laughed dismissively as a child

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review The Cornet Player Who Betrayed Ireland Ö eBook or Kindle ePUB characters ð eBook or Kindle ePUB ✓ Frank O’Connor And tragic stories refract universal truths through the prism of 20th century IrelandThis book contains The Cornet Player Who Betrayed Ireland Guests of the Nation A Story by Maupassant and First Confession. I loved the first three stories in this collection they are very short poignant The Cornet Player sweet and funny First Confession shocking Guests of the Nation and uintessentially Irish The last one A story by Maupassant didn t impress me all that much but I definitely want to read works by this author