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Angelsby Marian KeyesISBN 1842230743 (1-84223-074-3)
Hardcover, Poolbeg Press
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The Book of Evidenceby John BanvilleISBN 0375725237 (0-375-72523-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Evidence'Book summary:John Banvilles stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer.
Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence, not of his innocence, but of his life, of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could. Like a hero out of Nabokov or Camus, Montgomery is a chillingly articulate, self-aware, and amoral being, whose humanity is painfully on display. [via] -
Born in Fireby Nora RobertsISBN 0515114693 (0-515-11469-3)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Born in Fire'Book summary:First in a stunning new trilogy featuring the Concannon sisters of County Clare, Ireland. Maggie, the sister who marches to her own tune, is a gifted glassblower who hides the wounds of her troubled past by perfecting her craft. When she is discovered by a Dublin gallery owner, Maggie finds in him much more than a devoted patron. [via]
Breakfast on Plutoby Pat McCabeISBN 0060931582 (0-06-093158-2)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breakfast on Pluto'Book summary:Conceived in a moment of mad passion by a randy Irish priest and his temporary housekeeper -- and abandoned on a doorstep in a Rinso box as an infant -- her ladyship "Pussy" (né Patrick) Braden grew up fabulous and escaped tiny Tyreelin, Ireland, to start life anew in London. In blousy tops and satin miniskirts she plies her trade as a transvestite rent boy on Picadilly's Meat Rack, risking life and limb among the city's flotsam and jetsam. But it is the 1970s, and fear haunts the streets of London and Belfast -- and as radioactive history approaches critical mass, the coming explosion of violence and tragedy may well blow Pussy's fragile soul asunder.
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The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Storyby Angela BourkeISBN 0141002026 (0-14-100202-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Calby Bernard Mac LavertyISBN 0393313328 (0-393-31332-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Castle Rackrentby George Watson, Maria EdgeworthISBN 0192835637 (0-19-283563-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Published in 1800, Castle Rackrent is regarded as the first family saga and first regional novel in English. It chronicles the lives of four generations of 18th-century Irish landlords, and how their negligent behaviour towards life and money takes them to the edge of bankruptcy and ruin. A stimulating satire!
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Castle Rackrentby Maria Edgeworth, Susan Kubica HowardISBN 087220877X (0-87220-877-X)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Castle Rackrent'Book summary:An edition of Maria Edgeworth's first novel, 'Castle Rackrent', originally published in 1800, with annotations, an Introduction and a bibliography. 'Castle Rackrent' tells the story of three generations of the Rackrent family from the perspective of their servant, Thady Quirk, during the middle of the eighteenth century in Ireland. [via]
Celtic Heritage: Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Walesby Alwyn Rees, Brinley ReesISBN 0500270392 (0-500-27039-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Celtic Myth & Legendby Charles SquireISBN 0878770305 (0-87877-030-5)
Softcover, Career Pr Inc
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Celtic Myth and Legend: From Arthur and the Round Table to the Gaelic Gods and the Giants They Battled-- The Celebrated Comprehensive Treasury of Celtic Mythology, Legendby Charles Squire, Sirona KnightISBN 1564145344 (1-56414-534-4)
Softcover, Career Pr Inc
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Claire se queda sola / Watermelonby Marian Keyes, Random House MondadoriISBN 8497593669 (84-9759-366-9)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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A Concise History of Irelandby Conor Cruise O'Brien, Maire O'BrienISBN 0500450110 (0-500-45011-0)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson
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Discovering Britain & Irelandby National Geographic Book ServiceISBN 0870445995 (0-87044-599-5)
Hardcover, National Geographic Society
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Discovering Britain and Irelandby National Geographic StaffISBN 0870445987 (0-87044-598-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Encyclopaedia of Irelandby Brian LalorISBN 0717130002 (0-7171-3000-2)
Hardcover, Gill & Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Encyclopaedia of Ireland'Book summary:With more than 5,000 original articles written by over 900 different contributors and in excess of 700 illustrations, mainly in colour, "The Encyclopaedia of Ireland" is unique. Unique in scope, in the distinction of its design and in its total commitment to quality - there is no book about Ireland remotely like it. It is the most ambitious reference work ever published about Ireland. Meticulously detailed, it is a treasure store of information, education, entertainment and enlightenment. Its range is astounding as it covers the entire spectrum of Irish achievement in all fields of human endeavour throughout recorded history. The conventional subjects are all here: literature and language, history, geography, economics, sociology, the arts and music.But other subjects, often neglected in Irish reference books, are also given their due place, such as science, engineering, astronomy, and sport. The publication of "The Encyclopaedia of Ireland" is a truly significant event. It represents the culmination of many years' collaboration between an entire community of talented writers led by a uniquely qualified team of editors. 'A blast from beginning to end. The most exhilarating book imaginable' - Stephen Rea (17th September). [via]
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Famineby Liam O'FlahertyISBN 1903582202 (1-903582-20-2)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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Firefly Summerby Maeve BinchyISBN 0440204194 (0-440-20419-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Firefly Summer'Book summary:It was a summer of warmth.... Kate Ryan and her husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish village of Mountfern... lovely twelve-year-old twins... and such wonderful dreams.... It was a summer of innocence... but all that is about to change this fateful summer of 1962 when American millionaire Patrick O'Neill comes to town with his irresistible charm and a pocketful of money... when love and hate vie for a town's quiet heart and old traditions begin to crumble away.... It was a summer of love that would never come again.... A time that has been captured forever in Maeve Binchy's compelling family drama... a novel you will never forget. [via]
The Flowering of Ireland: Saints, Scholars, and Kingsby Katharine SchermanISBN 0316772844 (0-316-77284-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Foreverby Peter HamillISBN 0316735698 (0-316-73569-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forever'Book summary:This is the magical, epic tale of Cormac O'Connor, who arrives in New York City from Ireland in 1741 and remains, well, forever. For Cormac has been given the gift of immortality, but only on the condition that he never leave the island of Manhattan. Through Cormac's eyes, we watch the city transform from a burgeoning settlement on the tip of an untamed wilderness to the romantic, gaslit world of Edith Wharton's time, and finally to the pulsing, thriving metropolis of the present day. But this is also Cormac's story, as he explores the mysteries of time and immortality, death and loss, sex and love. Though his life is proof of enduring magic, the living of it takes place in a world that can be gloriously, or terribly, real. [via]
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Graniaby Morgan LlywelynISBN 0765318083 (0-7653-1808-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grania'Book summary:Grania is the basis of the new Broadway muscial The Pirate Queen.Here is an extraordinary novel about real-life Irish chieftain Grace O Malley. From Morgan Llywelyn, bestselling author of Lion of Ireland and the Irish Century novels, comes the story of a magnificent, sixteenth-century heroine whose spirit and passion are the spirit and passion of Ireland itself.
Grania (Gaelic for Grace) is no ordinary female. And she lives in extraordinary times. For even as Grania rises as her clan's unofficial head and breadwinner and learns to love a man, she enters a lifelong struggle against the English forces of Queen Elizabeth -- her nemesis and alter ego.
Elizabeth intends to destroy Grania's piracy and shipping empire--and so subjugate Ireland once and for all. But Grania, aided by Tigernan, her faithful (and secretly adoring) lieutenant, has no choice but to fight back. The story of her life is the story of Ireland's fight for solidarity and survival--but it's also the story of Grania's growing ability to love and be strong at the same time.
Morgan Llywelyn has written a rich, historically accurate, and passionate novel of divided Ireland -- and of one brave woman who is Ireland herself.[via] 
Grania: She-King of the Irish Seasby Morgan LlywelynISBN 076530838X (0-7653-0838-X)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Granuaile: Ireland's Pirate Queen C. 1530-1603by Anne ChambersISBN 0863279139 (0-86327-913-9)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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Granuaile: The Life and Times of Grace O'Malleyby Anne ChanbersISBN 0863270077 (0-86327-007-7)
Softcover, Irish Books & Media
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Green Shadows, White Whaleby Ray BradburyISBN 0380789663 (0-380-78966-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Green Shadows, White Whale'Book summary:Summoned to Ireland to write a screenplay for Moby Dick, a young writer penetrates the enigma of the fog-shrouded land, meeting a cast of brilliant characters, including IRA members, priests, banshees, and others. Reprint. K. [via]
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Heart of the Seaby Nora RobertsISBN 0515128554 (0-515-12855-4)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of the Sea'Book summary:Bestselling author Nora Roberts has another classic on her hands with Heart of the Sea. This final installment in Roberts's faerie tale trilogy returns readers to Ardmore, Ireland, where the Gallagher family's pub is the heart of the community. Passionate and beautiful, Darcy Gallagher works as a waitress in the family pub while looking for a way to achieve the glamorous lifestyle to which she would like to become accustomed. Enter wealthy American builder Trevor Magee, whose Irish roots have drawn him back to the childhood home of his grandfather to build a theater. As Darcy and Trevor revel in the heated sexual attraction that flares between them, neither believes that they are the final key to end an ancient spell that separated Carrick the Faerie Prince and his human lady love, Gwen. But Ireland is a magic place, where the faeries dance among mere mortals and love blossoms under starry skies. Let veteran storyteller Nora Roberts transport you to the Emerald Isle, home of the little people and overwhelming passion. --Alison Trinkle [via]
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Hoodby Emma DonoghueISBN 1555834531 (1-55583-453-1)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns
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The Informerby Liam O'FlahertyISBN 0156443562 (0-15-644356-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Informer'Book summary:Voted one of Ireland's Top 20 greatest novels of all times, this classic thriller was brought to the big screen in the John Ford movie of the same name.
Set against the background of 1920's Ireland The Informer turns from the Irish countryside and its people to an enthralling revolutionary drama of the Dublin underworld.
In the ominous figure of Gypo, an ex-policeman and informer, who takes blood money for betraying his friend and comrade the author has created a character of menace and force. Originally published in 1925 the story still has a strong resonance today. The role of the informer in the 1920's has not changed much in the intervening 80 years. Still seen, in paramilitary organizations, as the lowest form of life the informers are desperate, shady characters who can wreak havoc on friends and comrades and are dealt with then as now with uncompromising and fatal justice. [via]
Ireland: A Concise Historyby Maire MacEntee O'BrienISBN 0500273790 (0-500-27379-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Ireland in Poetry: With Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, and Other Works of Artby Charles SullivanISBN 0810981300 (0-8109-8130-0)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Irish Countryman: An Anthropological Studyby Conrad M. ArensbergISBN 0881334014 (0-88133-401-4)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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Irish Cures, Mystic Charms, and Superstitionsby Wilde, Marlene EkmanISBN 0806982004 (0-8069-8200-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Irish Cures, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions'Book summary:Lady Wilde, mother of famed author Oscar Wilde, over 100 years ago collected these hundreds of archaic cures, spells, homespun proverbs, visionary omens and prophecies. 128 pages, 16 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.[via]More editions of Irish Cures, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions:
Irish Druids and Old Irish Religionsby James BinwickISBN 0405079427 (0-405-07942-7)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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Irish Records: Sources for Family and Local Historyby James G. RyanISBN 0916489760 (0-916489-76-0)
Hardcover, Flyleaf Press
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Killing Rageby Eamon Collins, Mick McGovernISBN 1862070474 (1-86207-047-4)
Softcover, Granta Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killing Rage'Book summary:Eamon Collins never pulled a trigger for the Irish Republican Army. But he helped organize several hits--some "successful," others not. Upon joining the IRA, he was warned that "in all probability, [he] would end up on the run, in prison, or dead." Collins would end up all three: after a bombing attack--in which he had played no part--he was arrested, and after five days of punishing interrogation, agreed to turn informer. Changes of heart eventually led him to recant his confessions, and he was sent to prison. Upon his release, the IRA forced him into exile "outside the war zone." As time passed, he returned to his family home and tried to move on. In 1995 Collins appeared on British television to tell the story of his life in the IRA.
Killing Rage presents his story in fuller detail, allowing Collins to try to explain "why a segment of people within the Catholic population believed that the best way to redress their grievances was through violence." Collins also painted an unsavory portrait of the IRA--while showing their Protestant counterparts in an equally unflattering light.
In his introduction, Collins admits he is sorry about the deaths he caused:
But my sorrow is not enough.... By exposing myself to the anger of my former comrades and the families of my victims, I wanted to show that I had thought long and hard about what had happened and that it is possible to become a different person--as we all have to become different people if we are to live together in Northern Ireland without political violence.
Killing Rage, however, clearly reopened old wounds. Collins was found murdered on January 28, 1999. --Sunny Delaney [via]
The Lost Paintingby Jonathan HarrISBN 0375759867 (0-375-75986-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Lost Painting : The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpieceby Jonathan HarrISBN 0375431535 (0-375-43153-5)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Painting : The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece'Book summary:In 1992 a young art student uncovered a clue in an obscure Italian archive that led to the discovery of Caravaggio's original The Taking of the Christ, a painting that had been presumed lost for over 200 years. How this clue--a single entry in an old listing of family possessions--led to a residence in Ireland and the subsequent restoration of this Italian Baroque masterpiece is the subject of this brisk and enthralling detective story. The Lost Painting reads more like a historical novel than art history, as Harr smoothly weaves several narratives together to bring the story alive. Though he does not provide an in-depth examination of the painting itself--the book is not aimed specifically at art experts--Harr does include many details for lay readers about restoration, the various methods used to track artwork through history, how originals are distinguished from copies, and an inside view of the art world, past and present. He also discusses various forensic approaches, including X ray, infrared reflectography, chemical analysis of the paints and canvas, and other modern techniques. But most of the book is focused on more primitive methods, including dogged research through dusty archives and meticulous attention to detail.
This entertaining book boasts an engaging cast of characters, all of whom are inflicted with the "Caravaggio disease," including some of the foremost Caravaggio scholars in the world, persistent students, obsessive restorers, and most of all, the artist himself. Mercurial, supremely gifted, and prone to violence, Caravaggio lived like an outlaw and a pauper most of his troubled life. Yet even when he attained wealth and fame--and briefly, respectability--he was still hounded by the law (for murder) and numerous vengeful enemies. Harr does an admirable job of bringing the man alive in these pages while keeping his long-lost painting at the center of the action. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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The Masterby Colm ToibinISBN 1587248255 (1-58724-825-5)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Brilliant and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America's first intellectual families two decades before the Civil War. In stunningly resonant prose, Toibin captures the loneliness and longing, the hope and despair of a man who never married, never resolved his sexual identity, and whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. [via]
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Pomegranate Soupby Marsha MehranISBN 1400062411 (1-4000-6241-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pomegranate Soup'Book summary:Beneath the holy mountain Croagh Patrick, in damp and lovely County Mayo, sits the small, sheltered village of Ballinacroagh. To the exotic Aminpour sisters, Ireland looks like a much-needed safe haven. It has been seven years since Marjan Aminpour fled Iran with her younger sisters, Bahar and Layla, and she hopes that in Ballinacroagh, a land of crazed sheep and dizzying roads, they might finally find a home.
From the kitchen of an old pastry shop on Main Mall, the sisters set about creating a Persian oasis. Soon sensuous wafts of cardamom, cinnamon, and saffron float through the streetsan exotic aroma that announces the opening of the Babylon Café, and a shock to a town that generally subsists on boiled cabbage and Guinness served at the local tavern. And it is an affront to the senses of Ballinacroaghs uncrowned king, Thomas McGuire. After trying to buy the old pastry shop for years and failing, Thomas is enraged to find it occupiedand by foreigners, no less.
But the mysterious, spicy fragrances work their magic on the townsfolk, and soon, business is booming. Marjan is thrilled with the demand for her red lentil soup, abgusht stew, and rosewater baklavaand with the transformation in her sisters. Young Layla finds first love, and even tense, haunted Bahar seems to be less nervous.
And in the stand-up-comedian-turned-priest Father Fergal Mahoney, the gentle, lonely widow Estelle Delmonico, and the headstrong hairdresser Fiona Athey, the sisters find a merry band of supporters against the close-minded opposition of less welcoming villagers stuck in their ways. But the idyll is soon broken when the past rushes back to threaten the Amnipours once more, and the lives they left behind in revolution-era Iran bleed into the present.
Infused with the textures and scents, trials and triumph,s of two distinct cultures, Pomegranate Soup is an infectious novel of magical realism. This richly detailed story, highlighted with delicious recipes, is a delectable journey into the heart of Persian cooking and Irish living. [via]More editions of Pomegranate Soup:
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Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the Ira's Soulby Kevin ToolisISBN 0312156324 (0-312-15632-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spiritby Patricia MonaghanISBN 1577314581 (1-57731-458-1)
Softcover, New World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit'Book summary:Ireland: land of rambles, burning peat, dark beer, misdirection, lilting speech, enchanting melodies, green hills, ruddy faces, and goddesses. Goddesses? In Ireland? Like many Irish Americans before her, Pat Monaghan traveled to Ireland for the first time as an adult, seeking her roots. What she found was much more than her physical ancestors. She found spiritual forebears in the legends and landmarks of spirited women: witches, hags, wanton girls, mothers. This book is the story of her journeys, and the story of the journeys the legends have made through time.[via]More editions of The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit:
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Selected Poems and Three Plays of William Butler Yeatsby M.L. RosenthalISBN 0020715609 (0-02-071560-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion, and Power in Celtic Irelandby Mary CondrenISBN 190260296X (1-902602-96-X)
Softcover, New Island Books
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A Short History of Irelandby John O'Beirne RanelaghISBN 0521469449 (0-521-46944-9)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Sources for Irish Family History: A Listing of Books and Articles on the History of Irish Familiesby James G. RyanISBN 0953997421 (0-9539974-2-1)
Hardcover, Flyleaf Press
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The Southby Colm ToibinISBN 1852421703 (1-85242-170-3)
Hardcover, Serpent's Tail
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The Spider's Webby Peter TremayneISBN 0451195590 (0-451-19559-0)
Softcover, Signet
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Stones of Aran: Pilgrimageby Tim RobinsonISBN 014011565X (0-14-011565-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Sweeney Astrayby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0374518947 (0-374-51894-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strikeby David BeresfordISBN 087113702X (0-87113-702-X)
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Trilogyby Samuel BeckettISBN 1857152360 (1-85715-236-0)
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Troublesby J.G. Farrell, John BanvilleISBN 1590170180 (1-59017-018-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Troubles'Book summary:Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize
1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whether he is indeed betrothed to Angela Spencer, whose Anglo-Irish family owns the once-aptly-named Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough. But his fiancée is strangely altered and her family's fortunes have suffered a spectacular decline. The hotel's hundreds of rooms are disintegrating on a grand scale; its few remaining guests thrive on rumors and games of whist; herds of cats have taken over the Imperial Bar and the upper stories; bamboo shoots threaten the foundations; and piglets frolic in the squash court. Meanwhile, the Major is captivated by the beautiful and bitter Sarah Devlin. As housekeeping disasters force him from room to room, outside the order of the British Empire also totters: there is unrest in the East, and in Ireland itself the mounting violence of "the troubles."
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Voices of Ireland: Classic Writings of a Rich and Rare Landby Malachy McCourtISBN 0762413360 (0-7624-1336-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Voices of Ireland: Classic Writings of a Rich and Rare Land'Book summary:This anthology collects fiction, poetry, and essays by several esteemed Irish writers over three centuries that describe the beauty and mystique of Ireland. From Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" to James Joyce's "Dubliners, " these masterpieces form a collective record of the modern Irish experience. [via]
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W. B. Yeats : Selected Poemsby Phoenix Press Staff, W. B. YeatsISBN 0753816652 (0-7538-1665-2)
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Watermelonby Marian KeyesISBN 1853715085 (1-85371-508-5)
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Wb Yeats Poems Selected by Seamus Heaneyby W. B. YeatsISBN 0571203787 (0-571-20378-7)
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When Summer's in the Meadowby Niall Williams, Christine BreenISBN 0939149370 (0-939149-37-0)
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When Summer's in the Meadow: Our Life in Clareby Niall Williams, Christine BreenISBN 0939149230 (0-939149-23-0)
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William Butler Yeats : Selected Poemsby W. B. Yeats, E. DickinsonISBN 051707396X (0-517-07396-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Butler Yeats : Selected Poems'Book summary:William Butler Yeats was not only one of the most beloved and honored poets of this century. Playwright, essayist, theatrical impresario, occultist, politician, famously hapless lover--he was also one of the most colorful and complex. Astonishingly, no full biography of Yeats has appeared in many years. Now, Keith Alldritt gives us a lively telling of Yeats's story that puts the poet in the context of his times, from the high Victorian era to the modernism of the thirties.
Alldritt reveals that Yeats was not just "the sensitive introvert who began as the mooning dreamer and after a lifetime seeking philosophical and hermetic wisdom, ended as the learned sage" that Yeats himself and his biographers would have us believe. He shows us a less familiar man: "a dedicated careerist, an ambitious man of determined self-interest, a seeker after social standing, and a combative man with a violent temper that sustained him in many nasty quarrels." Confrontational, scrappy, driven, he was deeply involved in both the political and literary issues of his day. He was instrumental in overturning the English domination of Irish literature and in researching and publishing books on Irish lore and fairy tales. He was the founder, with George Bernard Shaw, of the Irish Institute of Arts and Letters as well as the Abbey Theatre, where he refused to close down Synge's inflammatory play The Playboy of the Western World, despite riots in the street. During his tenure as senator in the Irish Parliament, he fought the Catholic divorce laws. At every level, Alldritt shows us a poet engaged in the world.
Yeats's long, passionate, and physically unrequited love affair with the beautiful Irish nationalist Maud Gonne, which led to some of his most poignant poetry, is brought vividly to life. Also covered in some detail are Yeats's numerous love affairs in the years before his death. Though condoned by his wife, they have not been explored in previous biographies out of respect for her feelings.
Another aspect of Yeats not generally appreciated is his involvement with literary movements outside Ireland and England. He wrote reviews for the Boston Globe; lectured regularly throughout the United States; and spent much time in France, where he was influenced by the symbolist poets, and in Italy, where he joined the Rapallo group led by the quixotic Ezra Pound.
In his years of research, Alldritt visited libraries worldwide. He was given special access to Yeats's private papers in the National Library of Ireland and interviewed many people who knew or are knowledgeable about Yeats, most notably Yeats's daughter, Anne.
Yeats has been called "the greatest poetic imagination of our century." Now Keith Alldritt reveals another facet of his extraordinary persona.
William Butler Yeats was a master craftsman, and one of his most skillful constructs was his own image. He wished to be remembered, above all, as an Irishman and a poet; as a man whose nature had been determined by the almost magical qualities of his childhood in Sligo and whose character had been shaped by the influence of admirable men. There is truth in this depiction of himself, but it is a partial truth only.
In this account, I attempt to go beyond his interior world and to evoke and do justice to those individuals and external forces which in their turn made up part of the dialectic of Yeats's life. Yeats lived at a time of profound changes for the Western world from the high Victorianism of the late 1800s to the advent of modernism in the 1930s. I have attempted to offer a strong sense of Yeats in his social and historical context--to show that an important side of his genius was his deep and often manipulative relationship with the turbulent life around him as with his turbulent life within. [via]More editions of William Butler Yeats : Selected Poems:
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