The Seething Pot Explained

The Seething Pot is a roman à clef written by George A. Birmingham, which negatively portrays various individuals and organizations of County Mayo.[1] It was first published in 1905.[2] The novel has been called an "excellent study of life in the west of Ireland."[3]

A seething pot (also seethingpot or seething-pot) is a vessel for boiling provisions mentioned in the King James Bible at Job 41:20 and Jer. 1:13.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Perspectives on Irish Nationalism. Thomas E. Hachey. Lawrence John McCaffrey . University Press of Kentucky. 1989. 30. 0-8131-0188-3.
  2. Book: Ireland's Literary Renaissance. Ernest Augustus Boyd. BiblioBazaar. 2008. 386. 978-0-559-73139-6.
  3. Book: The Celtic Dawn. Lloyd R Morris. BiblioBazaar. 2009. 186. 978-1-110-65066-8.
  4. Web site: Seething pot | Define Seething pot at Dictionary.com . 21 January 2016 . 26 January 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160126232931/http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/seething-pot . dead .

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