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regshoe ([personal profile] regshoe) wrote 2022-08-04 06:58 pm (UTC)

Oh, Stephen is Catholic! I thought so, but the book seemed oddly evasive about it, even in the bits from his POV—and I think I agree that he'd have worked better as a Dissenter (and O'Brian mentions the mix of denominations in the United Irishmen—hmm).

(I was also slightly surprised to hear that Patrick O'Brian was English, given the name and the Irish protagonist, so I went and looked up his Wikipedia page and it has a whole section about him changing his name and other 'controversies'—oh dear, apparently quite a lot there...)

James Dillon had so much wasted potential, in his own right as well as vis-a-vis Jack and Stephen! A shame.

the fact that no-one ever, I think, actually says Mowett-the-Poet.

:D

Interesting thoughts about Jack and the problems of historical attitudes, too—I'll have to keep this stuff in mind while reading the later books.

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