A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

I enjoyed what little I understood of this book. I thought it was a convincing character study with some profound moments. I did get most of the main historical references about Parnell etc, but when it got into the more obscure areas of politics and literature of late 19th century Ireland I was faaaaairly flummoxed. Between that and the complex language, my enjoyment of this was severely hampered. Also the section on religion, while probably one...read more