Edith Somerville

Edith Somerville and Martin Ross were two extraordinary Irish female writers. They produced one of the most popular and best-selling series of comic Irish short stories of its time - The Irish R.M. tales (1899-1914). In this book the high-spirited young ladies decide to tour North Wales on horseback. Written in the first person, the “author” remains anonymous throughout, while her friend is given the pseudonym “Miss O’Flannigan.” 

This is the tale of Major Sinclair Yates, an Anglo-Irish man who becomes the Resident Magistrate in a small Irish village. As he passes judgement on a range of cases and characters that would have driven Solomon to drink, he learns that in Ireland, two and two are just as likely to make five, or three, or even nothing at all...