{"product_id":"king-goshawk-and-the-birds-9781943150205","title":"King Goshawk and the Birds","description":"Originally published in 1926, \u003ci\u003eKing Goshawk and the Birds\u003c\/i\u003e is the first installment of O'Duffy's Cuanduine trilogy, which also included \u003ci\u003eThe Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street\u003c\/i\u003e (1928) and \u003ci\u003eAsses in Clover\u003c\/i\u003e (1933). Set in a future world devastated by the development of capitalism, \u003ci\u003eKing Goshawk\u003c\/i\u003e concerns the eponymous tyrant's attempt to buy all of the wildflowers and songbirds in Ireland, and the attempt by a Dublin philosopher as well as a number of mythical heroes of Irish tradition to stop him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eO'Duffy, Eimar:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Eimar Ultan O'Duffy (1893-1935) was born in Dublin. Both a participant in and, beginning with the publication of his first novel in 1919, a critic of the Irish nationalist movement in the first decades of the twentieth century, O'Duffy devoted much of his prolific fiction writing to the satirizing of modern Irish culture.","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50365954130194,"sku":"9781943150205","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c8345cb5-7e26-4ea3-b21a-00ca90c8dd9d.jpg?v=1728468222","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/king-goshawk-and-the-birds-9781943150205","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}