Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Some Experiences of an Irish R.M., credited to Edith Oenone Somerville, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of the Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Edith Oenone Somerville and Martin Ross. Read by Andy Minter. This is the first of three novels which Edith Somerville and her cousin Violet Martin wrote about the English Major Sinclair Yates who leaves the army to take up a position of Resident Magistrate in the West of Ireland in about 1895. The tales tell in a humorous way of his struggles with a new job, new culture, and with his landlord and neighbour Mr. ‘Flurry’ Knox whose prime, if not only, interest is in hunting, which forms the background to all the stories. Miss Somerville was herself the first woman anywhere to become an M.F.H. (Summary by A.J.M.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
• Author credits: Edith Oenone Somerville
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 7:15:52

Catalogue topics

• Edith Anna Somerville
• Violet Florence Martin
• comedy
• politics

Track guide

1. 01 Great-Uncle McCarthy — 39:17
2. 02 In the Curranhilty Country — 32:33
3. 03 Trinket's Colt — 30:48
4. 04 The Waters of Strife — 33:49
5. 05 Lisheen Races, Second Hand — 36:26
6. 06 Philippa's Fox-Hunt — 37:56
7. 07 A Misdeal — 37:32
8. 08 The Holy Island — 39:11
9. 09 The Policy of the Closed Door — 33:15
10. 10 The House of Fahy — 37:42
11. 11 Occasional Licenses — 35:21
12. 12 Oh Love! Oh Fire! — 42:08

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