Langrishe, Go Down

Langrishe, Go Down (1966), a big house novel by Aidan Higgins. Set in the late 1930s in rural Co. Kildare, the novel describes the bored lives of three spinster Langrishe sisters in Springfield House, their decaying home. The story concerns an affair between Imogen Langrishe and Otto Beck, a German student writing a doctorate in Celtic Studies.