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All parts of the British sles provide the backgrounds, and at times the reader stumbles over shifts in vernacular and dialect from Scottish to Irish to Welsh, but the stories themselves are varied and lively reading, while the undercore of a message is not too crassly conveyed. The priests themselves represent a mixed lot- men of exalted backgrounds, culture, worldly experience, who have found their hardest task bringing themselves down to the humble people of their flocks men who understand only the intellectual, realistic aspects of their faith- and must learn to accept the mystical as well men who hide their saintliness under uncouth exteriors, who learn the hard way to love their fellow men, who encounter devils as well as saints, murderers, sinners, simple people who do not recognize their own exalted state. Young Rose (used, perhaps, as a foil by her grandmother) is chief audience for stories that reflect the multiple facets of mankind to which priests find themselves exposed. They locked eyes over the Tuiseal Ginideach, the much inflected, always shifting, Irish genitive case, and they fell, a little inconveniently, in love.
Grandmother and the priests series#
Using the sort of frame that Isak Dinesen used so successfully in Last Tales, Taylor Caldwell has told a series of priests' tales, recounted around the dining table of a glamorous, sinful old lady who finds in her priests, mirrors held up to humanity. Using the sort of frame that Isak Dinesen used so successfully in Last Tales, Taylor Caldwell has told a series of priests. This was a respectable and patriotic way for young people to holiday, and it was here, in 1918, that my grandmother met her future husband, the priest’s brother Henry.