The Wild Irish Boy, Works of Charles Robert Maturin, Vol. 2The Wild Irish Boy (1808) was Charles Robert Maturins second novel. Set in Ireland and England, the story follows the adventures of Ormsby Bethel, a young Irishman of uncertain ancestry, as he navigates through the temptations of high life, the intrigues of swindlers, gamblers, and fast women, and his own uncertainties about his place in the societies of both countries. Combining features of the silver fork novel, coming of age story, and to some