Anthony Trollope 
The Kellys and the O’Kellys 

Anthony Trollope’s early Irish novel ‘The Kellys and the O’Kellys’ sold just 140 copies when first published in 1848 during the potato famine, yet it has all the hallmarks of his future greatness and it has become a classic of universal literature.



‘The Kellys and the O’Kellys’ is the humorous story of two marriages showing the striking similarities between a poor and a wealthy Irish family.