J: The Time of the Angels (1966)

24 chapters

446,944 characters

79,495 words

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4ft by 5ft

✝️Carel Fisher, an eccentric Anglican priest who has lost his faith

📔Muriel Fisher, his 24yo daughter, aspiring poet, sardonic

👧Elizabeth Fisher, his 19yo niece, a semi-invalid recluse (corset for 'slipped disc') spoiled

🏫Marcus Fisher, headmaster of small school, writing a philosophy book

Julian Fisher, Elizabeth's father, deceased

🧹Pattie O'Driscoll, his half-Jamaican housekeeper and former mistress

⛏️Eugene Peshkov, a Russian émigré who works as the rectory's janitor

🕺Eugene's son Leo, blond, a student at a technical college, s&m w/Marcus?

Mrs Anthea Barlow

💁Norah Shadox-Brown, do-gooder

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'Chloe Boughton Leigh' by Gwen John

 

Harry Peccinotti cover for Penguin 1970

 

 

 

Annunciatory Angel by Fra Angelico

 

 

 

Trinity (Andrei Rublev)

 

I: The Red and the Green (1965)

26 chapters incl epilog
words: 109,078

characters: 617,003

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"I'm glad you like The Red and the Green - no one has cared much about it, generally least successful - people don't want to hear about Ireland. " -Letter to Roly Cochrane, 14 January 1986

Conradi says IM regretted romanticising violence here

Constance Markievicz (1868-1927) ?= Millie

1902 Panhard

🏇 Second-Lieutenant Andrew Chase-White, 21yo, stationed at Longford

👰Frances Bellman, his fiancee

💰Christopher Bellman, her father

Heather Kinnard Bellman, her mother, died young

Finglas, the Bellmans' villa in Sandycove ave

Hilda Drumm Chase-White, his mother, moving to Claresville in Dalkey

Henry Chase-White, his late father 

Janet Selborne-Doyle Dumay Chase-White, his grandmother

🤡Barnabas 'Barney' Drumm, his uncle, Catholic convert, drinker 🔫🎯 parody of Donald MacKinnon?

👢Millie Dumay, his adventurous aunt, lives in Upper Mount street and Rathblane

Brian Dumay, his outdoorsy uncle, Catholic convert, died c1910

👵Kathleen Kinnard, Brian's wife, Heather's sister, remarried Barney

👊Pat Dumay, their son, 22yo 'the iron man' studying law

👦Cathal Dumay, their son 13yo?

Sir Arthur Kinnard, Kathleen's and Heather's brother, married Millie, died young

(siblings Arthur/Kathleen married siblings Millie/Brian)

Dumays live in IM's old house on Blessington Street

source

We Be Soldiers Three

poem:Green above the Red

tune: Whiskey in the Jar [eg]

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Sandycove Martello tower: occupied parttime in 1916 by Oliver Gogarty, not yet but soon to be made famous by 'Ulysses'

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Harold Gilman (1876-1919)
Portrait of Mrs Whelan

'Portrait of Lady Lavery as Kathleen Ni Houlihan' by John Lavery

H: The Italian Girl (1964)

chapters: 21

characters: 256,475
words: 47,941

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Grunewald's St Anthony

 

Eve of Gislebertus

 

 big ugly Victorian rectory

Edmund Narraway, engraver, 40s

🦛🗿 Otto Narraway, stone mason, elder brother, fat, drunk

Isabel, Otto's Scottish wife

👧 Flora, their daughter 16yo? studying textile design

🃏 David Levkin, Otto's Russian Jewish apprentice c20yo

👽 Elsa Levkin, his sister

🍲 Maria 'Maggie' Magistretti, the Italian 'girl'

👢 Lydia, deceased mother

John Narraway, deceased father, socialist artist

Charlie Hopgood, student

 

Part One
H01 A Moonlight Engraving
H02 Otto's Laughter

"Nondum considerasti quantum pondus sit peccatum." = you have not yet considered how great the weight of sin is (Anselm)
H03 Isabel Feeds the Fire
H04 Otto and Innocence

'marmoreal' = made of marble

Blado font

H05 Flora and Experience 🏡🤰
H06 The Magic Brothel 🔦👽 🐛🛌🏼
H07 Two Kinds of Jew {😪🤑}⌚🕙👧🍲
H08 Otto Confesses
H09 Edmund is Tempted
Part Two
H10 Uncle Edmund in Loco Parentis
H11 A Modern Ballet
H12 Isabel Confesses
H13 Edmund runs to Mother
H14 Otto Selects a Victim
H15 Lydia's Sense of Humour
H16 Elsa's Fire Dance
H17 Edmund in the Enchanted Wood
Part Three
H18 Elsa's Rings
H19 Boxwood
H20 Isabel in a long Perspective
H21 Rome 

G: The Unicorn (1963)

chapters: 35

 words: 92,399

characters: 516,633

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Iris Murdoch Society · In Conversation: The Unicorn

'I feel about [The Unicorn], as I did about A Severed Head which I was so tiresome about, fearing that it may be just a quite private thing which others will regard with surprise or dislike.' [cite]

'The Unicorn is set between two famous landmarks on the west coast of Ireland, the cliffs of Moher and the limestone country of the Burren. (John Bayley tells us in his memoir Iris that she conceived the idea of the novel on a visit they made to this area [in 1958/59]).'

Cliffs of Moher

baby donkey

dried honesty

Burren dolmen

carnivorous sundew

🏰 Gaze Castle

👧 Marian Taylor, 29yo

💂 Gerald Scottow, 40s, masculine, drives Land Rover

👦 Jamesie Evercreech, very pretty 19yo boy

📨 Geoffrey

🔒 Hannah Crean-Smith

🔑 Peter Crean-Smith (in New York)

🎓 Max Lejour, Riders

🍟 Alice Lejour, daughter, 30s, stout

🛌🏼 Philip 'Pip' Lejour

🐕 Tadg, his retriever

🤡 Effingham Cooper

👵 Violet Evercreech, 40-50yo, tall, thin

🎣 Denis Nolan

💄 Freda Darsey

👯 maids: Carrie

🐠 goldfish: Strawberry Nose

🦭 seal

🦇 bat

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