'There was an Ancient House' by Benedict Kiely
- IE IJA FM/EMO/97
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- 1955
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Book entitled 'There was an Ancient House' by Benedict Kiely, Methusen and Co Ltd, London. A novel where ‘in a country house thirty novices of a religious order are learning a new, strange life, some failing, others succeeding in conforming to the pattern laid down by rule’. Benedict Kiely was a novice at St Mary's, Emo
Kiely, Benedict, 1919-2007, writer, critic, journalist and former Jesuit novice