New York Times" bestselling authors Binchy and Keyes top an impressive roster of the Emerald Isle's most popular women writers and prove that when it comes to spinning a good yarn, the Irish are the best in the business. Showcasing dazzling wit in short stories that run the gamut from provocative to poignant, these Irish women will tug at the ...
"Modern Irish Drama" reprints the complete texts of twelve plays by the major Irish playwrights - W.B.Yeats, Lady Gregory, J.M.Synge, Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel. The texts are annotated with explanatory notes on Anglo-Irish usage, place names, historical figures and literary allusions. The ...
This is the first biography authorized by Beckett and his estate. Shortly before his death, Beckett chose Knowlson to be his biographer because, in his words, he is "the one who knows my work the best". This biography draws on Knowlson's 20-year friendship with Beckett, more than 100 interviews, and research in dozens of archives--many previously ...
Best friends Jo Ryan and Aisling Moran have it all. As a fashion journalist with an Irish glossy magazine, Jo has a great career, independence and a drop-dead gorgeous boyfriend. Aisling is deliriously happy with her brilliant editor husband, two beautiful ten-year-old sons and a home she's rag-rolled and stencilled to within an inch of its life. ...
Master storyteller William Trevor collects the work of his countrymen in this anthology of stories by Irish writers, which range from a selection from Joyce's DUBLINERS to a 1987 story by Mary Lavin.
Though the Emerald Isle is no stranger to tales of the fantastic (everything from the Hound Cuchlain to Darby O'Gill and his leprechaun friends), most of the fantasy works dealing with Ireland have limited themselves to either ancient history/Celtic legends and lore, sentimental tales of wee folk, or ghostly tales of hauntings in old deserted ...
The unique charm of the Irish shines through this delightful collection of blessings, poems, legends and inspirational wishes. Also included are the legends of the shamrock, the leprechaun, the Blarney Stone and more. Deluxe gift edition with printed endpapers. 75 full-color illustrations.
'Can we not build up a national tradition, a national literature, which shall be none the less Irish in spirit from being English in language?' W. B. Yeats This anthology traces the history of modern Irish literature from the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century to the early years of political independence. From Charlotte Brooke and ...
From its origins in the folk tale, through its evolution in response to changing social and political conditions to its current form, the Irish short story has retained its own distinct and unique form. The finest writers of their time are represented here by their best work, showing the variety of style and approach within the genre. From George ...
Brand new stories by: Ken Bruen, Eoin Colfer, Jason Starr, Laura Lippman, Olen Steinhauer, Peter Spiegelman, Kevin Wignall, Jim Fusilli, John Rickards, Patrick J. Lambe, Charlie Stella, Ray Banks, James O. Born, Sarah Weinman, Pat Mullan, Gary Phillips, Craig McDonald, Duane Swierczynski, Reed Farrel Coleman, and others. Irish crime-fiction ...
Eminent writers of widely varying persuasions offer 30 dazzling short stories--ranging from the comic to the passionate, from the skeptical to the mystical. Works by James Baldwin, Tobias Wolff, Elizabeth Spencer, Mavis Gallant, and others engage issues of deep and universal appeal.
Dan Starkey is a young journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife, Patricia, a prodigious appetite for drinking and dancing. Then Dan meets Margaret, a beautiful and apparently impoverished student, and things begin to get out of hand. And then, terrifyingly, Margaret is murdered. Is it because of her liaison with Dan? Is it because she was ...
If the bus hadn't broken down that August afternoon on the road between Dublin and Cork, Elizabeth Sullivan would never have met George Gallaher, a travelling actor of infinite charm and fatal weakness. She would not have been forced to marry, nor found herself trapped in an alien landscape.
This anthology samples deeply from the breadth of British and Irish 20th-century poetry, offering an array of late-20th-century traditions alongside modernist antecedents. In addition to major canonical poets like Thomas Hardy and Gerard Manley Hopkins, this anthology contains the work of often overlooked poets such as Nancy Cunard, Elizabeth ...
When Chris Wallace looks in the mirror he sees a deep and complex man. He is, in fact, shallow, selfish and very devious. Successful and charismatic, women love him. This is the tale of how the three women who have had enough of him plot their revenge.
Verse in Irish, especially from the early and medieval periods, is felt to be the preserve of linguists and specialists, and Anglo-Irish poetry is usually seen as an adjunct to the English tradition. This anthology approaches the tradition as a whole and presents a relationship between two major bodies of poetry that reflects a shared and painful ...
In this anthology there are gathered, for the first time in America, some of the more representative examples of Irish short fiction. The emphasis is on variety.
This collection of 10 lectures examines the work of poets such as Christopher Marlowe, Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Bishop, and Brian Merriman, in light of a common theme: that poetry can serve as a spiritual balance to the forces of hostility and oppression.
Durraghglass is a beautiful mansion in Southern Ireland, now crumbling in neglect. The time is the present - a present that churns with the bizarre passions of its owners' past. The Swifts - three sisters of marked eccentricity, defiantly christened April, May and Baby June, and their only brother, one-eyed Jasper - have little in common, save ...
1000 YEARS OF IRISH POETRY presents a remarkable panorama of Irish poetry as a literature, showing the many facets of the Irish poetic genius. It contains lyrics, elegies, songs, street ballads, satires, patriotic hymns, dramatic epics, nature and contemplative poetry, odes and sonnets, and older forms from the Gaelic which were not common to ...
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