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This chapter begins with the O’Donovans’ move to Rome in 1920, and the publication of his novel Conquest. This novel marks a dramatic shift in O’Donovan’s approach to the Irish question; the Home Ruler, who was unenthusiastic about the 1916 Rising, comes down firmly on the side of Sinn Féin. For the first time, O’Donovan’s fiction was favourably viewed in Ireland, while English critics were dismissive of it. The chapter also explores the publication of his next novel, Vocations, and his final work The Holy Tree. The Holy Tree is a story of forbidden love, and H. G. Wells, in a letter to O’Donovan, predicted that ‘if it got the attention it deserved, he would be paying super tax for the rest of his life’. |
