... Susan and Judy; and the bright lightsof the next generation – Lauren, Brendan, Conor, Mara, Liam, and Brigit – for putting up with it, and with me. Always and everywhere,Regenia Gagnier and Rob ... narrative structure, and to the kind of stories that gettold and retold about the Irish, so as to reveal both the regularity ofEnglish colonial discourse on Ireland and the Irish and the mutations ... organic growth of the plant (the great British oak) to the countryside, the country house and the georgic ideal of retirement, the estate, the aristocratic family and itsgenerations, the inviolability...