Foley's Asia: A Sketchbook

by Ronan Sheehan

While an anarchist group blows up the equestrian statue of General Gough in Dublin's Phoenix Park during the 1950s, the narrator recalls his mother's Kiplingesque tales of childhood in India, recreating the atmosphere and events of the Irish abroad in the service of the British Empire. The life of John Henry Foley (1818-1874), Queen Victoria's favourite sculptor, is interwoven with those of some of his principal subjects, Hardinge, Montgomery,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190186636X
• ISBN13: 9781901866360
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Lilliput Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.