Printer's errors

by Eimar O'Duffy

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

158 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1922

About the author

It can sometimes seem that Eimar O’Duffy (1893-1935) is most remembered for being a forgotten writer. John Hogan begins his slim 1972 biography of O’Duffy with the line “Eimar Ultan O’Duffy is virtually a forgotten writer”, then quotes Vivian Mercier’s 1946 essay on O’Duffy: “The late Eimar O’Duffy . . . was simply ignored.”

O'Duffy, of Anglo-Irish stock, became a captain in the Irish Volunteers and was sent by Eoin MacNeill, along with Bulmer Hobson, to stop the 1916 insurrection in Belfast. He wrote a wide variety of books and plays, but it is the Cuanduine trilogy that is his great achievement. King Goshawk and the Birds is the first part of the trilogy and is an important landmark in the Irish comic novel tradition.

(From the Irish Times)

Reviews

[Max Nemtsov · Rating 4 out of 5]

«Ошибки печатника» — второй роман Эймара О’Даффи, он знаменует собой некоторый переход от тяжеловесного критического реализма первого романа к последующей сатирической трилогии (и далее к совсем легким детективам 30-х годов). Реалистичен, конечно, — но еще и смешон местами, лукав и написан гораздо воздушнее. По сути, это комедия манер и сатира на дублинское общество перед Великой войной и при ее начале: Ирландское возрождение, Гэльская лига, ирландские добровольцы, театральный бум, рассадник поэтов — вот это все показано изнутри умеренно светского общества через историю незадачливого 46-летнего предпринимателя, который решает влюбиться и взбунтоваться против своих квадратных детей, один из которых считает себя сверхчеловеком. Все в итоге заканчивается хорошо, все оказываются человеческими людьми, и даже любовная интрига разруливается с приятностью. Пираты, сокровище и необитаемый остров там тоже есть.