This essay will focus on an episode where a pregnant schoolgirl denounces her Catholic school authorities for their decision to expel her. Published in the context of the legal reformations and the public debates about the separation between Church and State in the early 1990s Ireland, Colm Tóibín's The Heather Blazing (1992) centers round the personal and professional life of Eamon Redmond, a conservative judge in a changing society. Further study is required to determine the accuracy of the predicted results. The results demonstrated that the Burkes (0.88) had integrated within Mayo more successfully than the Brownes (0.44), Moores (0.44), Lynches (0.18), Blakes (0.05), Dillons (0.03) and the Lucan/Binghams (0.00). Higher values of the resultant integration indices represent higher levels of integration within a community. The model is based on the number of people in the 1901 Census of Ireland divided by the number of occupiers on their property in Griffith’s Valuation of 1856-57. An integration model has been used to estimate the extent to which their legacy has lingered-on. Members of these families have intermarried with one another and with other members of the landed gentry including the Burkes, Dillons and Lucan/Binghams. Most of the landed gentry of Mayo have now left the county but their legacy lingers-on in the genes of those Mayo people who bear their surnames including those of Blake, Browne, Lynch and Moore. An Irish perspective on British and colonial politics in the late eighteenth century can be discerned within John Juniper. John Juniper repudiates the conventional association between the Irish and crime through a plotline in which the concept of an inherited disposition is questioned.
In this novel Johnston, an Irish novelist based in London, offers depictions of Irish migration to Britain and across the empire, and demonstrates a critical awareness of stereotypical representations of his own nation. I argue however that the representation of Ireland in John Juniper is both nuanced and distinctive. This novel has been dismissed as less successful, and of less merit, than other works by Johnston. This article builds on recent scholarship on Johnston to interrogate his late novel The History of John Juniper (1781). Charles Johnston (c.1719-c.1800) is one example of a lesser-known novelist whose work has received more sustained engagement as a result. Summary: Recent research has expanded our knowledge of Irish fiction before 1800 and allowed readings of previously neglected texts as early Irish novels.
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