The Chase of a Shadow: A Narrative Poem in Four Cantos

"The Chase of a Shadow: A Narrative Poem in Four Cantos" was written by Irish-American Denis M. Cronin. Completed in 1898, the poem recounts the trying and, according to Cronin's preface, true-life story of Fergus, a young, Irish aristocrat from The Sheep's Head Peninsula in Southwest County Cork. After Fergus is separated from his home, his true love and all he holds dear by events following Ireland's 1798 Rebellion, he struggles to find his way in his new home, Boston, clinging to his memories even as the years go...