Somerville and Ross
The various stories concern the life of an Anglo-Irish former British Army officer recently appointed as a resident magistrate ( R . M . ) in Ireland , which at that stage was still wholly a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , some years before its partition into the Irish Free State ( now the Republic of Ireland ) and Northern Ireland . 
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