King Goshawk and the Birds in Bloomington, MN

Originally published in 1926,
King Goshawk and the Birds
is the first installment of O’Duffy’s Cuanduine trilogy, which also included
The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street
(1928) and
Asses in Clover
(1933). Set in a future world devastated by the development of capitalism,
King Goshawk
concerns the eponymous tyrant’s attempt to buy all of the wildflowers and songbirds in Ireland, and the attempt by a Dublin philosopher as well as a number of mythical heroes of Irish tradition to stop him.