![]() ![]() It may be supposed that Patrick, his eldest son, did odd jobs about his father’s bit of land till he was old enough to earn a wage. The small-holding he farmed was insufficient to provide for his large family, and he worked in a lime-kiln and, when things were slack, as a labourer on the estate of one of the neighbouring gentry. In the baptismal register it is given as Brunty and Bruntee. It looks as though he could neither read nor write, for he seems to have been uncertain how his name was spelt. Patrick’s Day in the following year the eldest of his ten children was born and given the name of Ireland’s patron saint. ![]() Hugh Prunty, a young peasant-farmer in County Down, in 1776 married Elinor McClory and on St. M Why the British Are Hated in Asia (1954) M Stendhal and Le Rouge et le Noir (1954) ![]() ![]() M The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian (1898) M Of Human Bondage with a Digression on the Art of Fiction (1946) M Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice (1954) M Emily Brontë and Wuthering Heights (1954) M Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov (1954) M Charles Dickens and David Copperfiled (1954) ![]()
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