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Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Anthony Trollope explores legislators, plantagenet palliser (fictitious character), politicians.
Phineas Finn The Irish Member is a work by Anthony Trollope. Its subjects include Legislators, Plantagenet Palliser (Fictitious character), Politicians.
From the opening pages: “Dr. Finn, of Killaloe, in county Clare, was as well known in those parts,--the confines, that is, of the counties Clare, Limerick, Tipperary, and Galway,--as was the bishop himself who lived in the same town, and was as much respected. Many said that the doctor was the richer man of the two, and the practice of his profession was extended over almost as wide a district. Indeed the bishop whom he was privileged to attend, although a Roman Catholic, always spoke of their dioceses being conterminate. It will therefore be understood that Dr. Finn,--Malachi Finn was his full name,--had obtained a wide reputation as a country practitioner in the west of Ireland. And he was a man sufficiently well to do, though that boast made by his friends, that he was as warm a man as the bishop, had but little truth to support it. Bishops in Ireland, if they live at home, even in these days, are very warm men; and Dr. Finn had not a penny in the world…”
