cessfully filmed. These circumstances have ensured that her name is still familiar in Ireland, even to those who may not read her books. She is famous for her rich and sensuous prose. Her works have gained a wide acclaim particularly among American readers.
             The story, The country girls, is partly based on the author's own experiences being brought up in a convent. "The novel is autobiographical insofar I was born and bred in the west of Ireland, educated at a convent, and was full of romantic yearnings, coupled with a sense of outrage." It first takes place in an Irish "boghole" near Limerick. It is a small grey country village, nowhere very exciting. It's the sort of place where everybody knowes everybody and you can't do anything without the entiry village getting to know about it. I get the impression that most of
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