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She was in love with the English Lyndon, and broke the whole secret to him; and the dastardly English prevented the just massacre of themselves by falling on the Irish, and destroying Phaudrig Barry, my ancestor, and many hundreds of his men. The cross at Barrycross near Carrignadihioul is the spot where the odious butchery took place.
Called to the Bar in 1839, he did not practise, and was first brought into notice by two ballads, Phaudrig Croohoore and Shamus O'Brien, which had extraordinary popularity. They are generally distinguished by able construction, ingenuity of plot, and power in the presentation of the mysterious and supernatural. Among Irish novelists he is generally ranked next to Lever.
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.
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.
'Write me an Irish "Young Lochinvar," said his brother; and in a few days he handed him 'Phaudrig Croohore' Anglice, 'Patrick Crohore.
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