Gerald McCormack

Loved this story -- very funny alternating diary entries from the perspective of the well-meaning but bumbling English landlord of an Irish estate and the well-meaning but bumbling Irish lad named Redmond O'Leary returning from four years of education abroad in England.
I thought the voice was excellent for both diaries and the story zipped along as the two protagonists' paths crossed and crossed again under the unrest and wilds of Galway in 1855.
It reminded me of a Flann O'Brian book, show more replete with footnote asides and meanderings show less