![]() ![]() ![]() The Secret Scripture is articulated by two different, interspersed narrative plots presentedin the form of unofficial documents that deal with the story of ninety-nine-year-old Roseanne McNulty and her internment in the Roscommon Mental Hospital. Written in scavenged paperand hidden under a floorboard of a room, the first of these versions of the story is “Roseanne’s Testimony of Herself,” her own attempt at reconstructing the fractured story of her life and the different societal oppressive forces that contributed to her isolation during the upheavals following the Irish Independence. ![]() In this sense, The Secret Scripture is a text that not only can be read independently but as a part of a literary corpus that deals with the history of this particular location. ![]() The Secret Scripture, by the award-winning writer Sebastian Barry, is a contemporary Anglo-Irish novel written in 2008, where personal stories are used as a means of destabilizing official historiography. The novel belongs to a collection of books called “The Sligo Novels,” written by the author, where Sligo County is portrayed as a microcosm united by the personal experiences of characters that appear or are mentioned in all of his texts. ![]()
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