The Seething Pot

The Seething Pot is a roman à clef written by George A. Birmingham which negatively portrays various individuals and organizations of County Mayo.[1] It was first published in 1905.[2] The novel has been called an "excellent study of life in the west of Ireland."[3]

A seething pot (also seethingpot or seething-pot) is a vessel for boiling provisions mentioned in the King James Bible at Job 41:20 and Jer. 1:13.[4]

References
  1. Thomas E. Hachey; Lawrence John McCaffrey (1989). Perspectives on Irish Nationalism. University Press of Kentucky. p. 30. ISBN 0-8131-0188-3.
  2. Ernest Augustus Boyd (2008). Ireland's Literary Renaissance. BiblioBazaar. p. 386. ISBN 0-559-73139-6.
  3. Lloyd R Morris (2009). The Celtic Dawn. BiblioBazaar. p. 186. ISBN 1-110-65066-3.
  4. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/seething-pot


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