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To Sir George Hamilton Seymour, G.C.H. My Dear Sir Hamilton, If a feather will show how the wind blows, perhaps my dedicating to you even as light matter as these Confessions may in some measure prove how grateful I feel for the many kindnesses I have received from you in the course of our intimacy. While thus acknowledging a debt, I must also avow that another motive strongly prompts me upon this occasion. I am not aware of any one, to whom with such propriety a volume of anecdote and adventure should be inscribed, as to one, himself well known as an inimitable narrator. Could I have stolen for my story, any portion of the grace and humour with which I have heard you adorn many of your own, while I should deem this offering more worthy of your acceptance, I should also feel more confident of its reception by the public. With every sentiment of esteem and regard, Believe me very faithfully yours, THE AUTHOR Bruxelles, December, 1839

“A wild ride through the 19th Century Irish countryside.” This is the first of Charles Lever’s rollicking military novels. It involves a dashing young British Army officer, who is transferred to Cork with his regiment. While there, he undergoes what Lever calls “a mass of incongruous adventures”; or, to put it in the words of the hero of the story: “Such was our life in Cork—dining, drinking, dancing, riding steeplechases, pigeon shooting, and tandem driving—filling up any little interval that was found to exist between a late breakfast, and the time to dress for dinner…” The book is filled with hilarious stories and anecdotes, and all sorts of interesting Irish characters—including some penetrating sketches of Catholic clerical life. In the later part of the book, the story ventures to Europe where we meet Arthur O'Leary, who becomes a main character in a later volume. Lever was astonished at the success of Harry Lorrequer, and once remarked: “If this sort of thing amuses them, I can go on for ever." He did not “go on forever,” but he did complete some 37 volumes including classics like Charles O’Malley, Tom Burke of Ours, and Lord Kilgobbin. But, it all began here with The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer

"A wild ride through the 19th Century Irish countryside." This is the first of Charles Lever's rollicking military novels. It involves a dashing young British Army officer, who is transferred to Cork with his regiment. While there, he undergoes what Lever calls "a mass of incongruous adventures"; or, to put it in the words of the hero of the story: "Such was our life in Cork-dining, drinking, dancing, riding steeplechases, pigeon shooting, and tandem driving-filling up any little interval that was found to exist between a late breakfast, and the time to dress for dinner..." The book is filled with hilarious stories and anecdotes, and all sorts of interesting Irish characters-including some penetrating sketches of Catholic clerical life. In the later part of the book, the story ventures to Europe where we meet Arthur O'Leary, who becomes a main character in a later volume. Lever was astonished at the success of Harry Lorrequer, and once remarked: "If this sort of thing amuses them, I can go on for ever." He did not "go on forever," but he did complete some 37 volumes including classics like Charles O'Malley, Tom Burke of Ours, and Lord Kilgobbin. But, it all began here with The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer

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It was on a splendid morning in the autumn of the year 181-- that the Howard transport, with four hundred of his Majesty's 4--th Regt., dropped anchor in the beautiful harbor of Cove. It was with a mingled sense of pain and pleasure that we gazed upon that peaceful little village. The moody silence our thoughts had shed over us was soon broken: the preparations for disembarking had begun, shaking off the load that oppressed my heart, I descended the gangway. . . .

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