ABSTRACT
FATHER JOHN. That is a common imagining. The Unicorn from the Stars.
That we in coming days may be Still the indomitable Irishry
THE LONELY TOWER
-with me on the Anglo-Irish background of the Big House and its "mythology'; as well as to the Lecturers of the past four years at the Y eats International Summer School at Sligo -especially to Marion Witt, Myles Dillon and Frank O'Connor - and to the members of the Advanced Seminar Group at those meetings. I owe a particular debt to Francis Warner, for reading this edition both in script and in proof. It is possible that I have inadvertently taken ideas from others which I have not acknowledged; if so, I ask their pardon.
