Anglo-Irish

This book embodies the deep ambivalence of the Anglo-Irish, who no longer felt British, but were not accepted by the “natives.”

It is set during the Irish Civil War, when the IRA stalked the Anglo-Irish, who responded with a mixture of fear and indignation.

The big houses were the homes of the Anglo-Irish, the abhorred British ruling class, that dominated the landscape.

Trevor says that if he is to be hyphenated, he prefers Protestant-Irish to Anglo-Irish.