The Mayor of Windgap
Mayor of Windgap, The (1834), a novel by Michael Banim, combining morality tale with melodrama in an idyllic evocation of rural Ireland in a past age. Set in Co. Kilkenny in 1779, it tells a sensational story of stolen inheritance involving jealousy, revenge, and parricide, and featuring a mysterious villain who is in fact an ex-pirate.



