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Updated: May 13, 2025
'Write me an Irish "Young Lochinvar," said his brother; and in a few days he handed him 'Phaudrig Croohore' Anglice, 'Patrick Crohore.
There are evidences in 'Shamus O'Brien, and even in 'Phaudrig Croohore, of a power over the mysterious, the grotesque, and the horrible, which so singularly distinguish him as a writer of prose fiction. 'Uncle Silas, the fairest as well as most familiar instance of this enthralling spell over his readers, is too well known a story to tell in detail.
Indeed, we may safely say that some of Le Fanu's lines are finer than any in 'Young Lochinvar, simply because they seem to speak straight from a people's heart, not to be the mere echoes of medieval romance. 'Phaudrig Croohore' did not appear in print in the 'Dublin University Magazine' till 1844, twelve years after its composition, when it was included amongst the Purcell Papers.
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