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The Admirable Crichtonby James Matthew BarrieISBN 1430441526 (1-4304-4152-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Admirable Crichton'Book summary:1918. One of the best known of Barrie's fantastic modern plays. Concerned with an aristocratic English family who revert to the state of Nature when shipwrecked on a desert island. While there they are willing slaves of their former butler, but on return to civilization the positions are shifted. [via]
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Alice's Adventure in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Ralph SteadmanISBN 1554072034 (1-55407-203-4)
Softcover, Firefly Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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- Alice's Adventure in Wonderland: ISBN 1421808420 (1-4218-0842-0)
Hardcover, 1st World Library - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 1552977544 (1-55297-754-4)
Hardcover, Firefly Books Ltd - Alice's Adventure in Wonderland: ISBN 1561381004 (1-56138-100-4)
Hardcover, Courage Books - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: ISBN 1569579008 (1-56957-900-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 1554072034 (1-55407-203-4)
Softcover, Firefly Books Ltd
- Alice's Adventure in Wonderland: ISBN 1421808420 (1-4218-0842-0)
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby David Blair, Lewis Carroll, Graham EverndenISBN 1561382469 (1-56138-246-9)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'Book summary:Our Miniature Edition "TM" collection continues to grow! Since 1989, when the first minis appeared, Running Press has offered an astonishing range of subjects, sure to find a place in any booklover's library! Visit the golf course for nine holes, head to the kitchen with the Silver Palate chefs, travel to the heavens above, or rediscover the wonders of nature in your own backyard. [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Richard Kelly, Lewis CarrollISBN 155111223X (1-55111-223-X)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The American Connection: U.S. Guns, Money, and Influence in Northern Irelandby Jack HollandISBN 1568331843 (1-56833-184-3)
Softcover, Roberts Rinehart Pub
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And Again?by Seán O'Faoláin, Stewart RichardsonISBN 1559720034 (1-55972-003-4)
Hardcover, Bedfordshire Historical Record Society
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Androcles And the Lionby George Bernard ShawISBN 1421807378 (1-4218-0737-8)
Hardcover, 1st World Library
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Apes and Angels: The Irishman in Victorian Caricatureby L. Perry CurtisISBN 1560987332 (1-56098-733-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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At Warby Flann O'Brien, John Wyse JacksonISBN 1564783286 (1-56478-328-6)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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Like The Best of Myles and Further Cuttings from Cruiskeen Lawn (both available from Dalkey Archive Press), At War is a collection of Flann O'Brien's columns written for the Irish Times under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen. Taken from the war years of 1940-45, these writings provide plenty of acerbic wit and persistent prodding of "the good people of Ireland." And in typical O'Brien fashion, no one is safe from his opinionated attacks. His oftentimes hysterical musings include discussions of theater, what it means to be Irish, ideas for alternative pubs and liquors, advice for children, and ways to improve the home. [via]More editions of At War:
The Ballad of Reading Gaolby Oscar Wilde, Garrick PalmerISBN 1570761035 (1-57076-103-5)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Ballymaloe Seasonsby Darina AllenISBN 1570981574 (1-57098-157-4)
Hardcover, Roberts Rinehart Pub
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The Banshee: The Irish Death Messengerby Patricia LysaghtISBN 1570981388 (1-57098-138-8)
Softcover, Roberts Rinehart Pub
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The Banyan Treeby Christopher NolanISBN 1559705116 (1-55970-511-6)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Beckett Country: Samuel Beckett's Irelandby Eoin O'Brien, Robert BallaghISBN 155970229X (1-55970-229-X)
Hardcover, Arcade Pub
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Benny and Babeby Eoin ColferISBN 1423102843 (1-4231-0284-3)
Softcover, Disney Pr
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Bloody Sunday: Massacre in Northern Ireland The Eyewitness Accountsby Don Mullan, John ScallyISBN 1570981590 (1-57098-159-0)
Softcover, Roberts Rinehart Pub
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The Bodhran Makersby John B. KeaneISBN 156833186X (1-56833-186-X)
Softcover, Roberts Rinehart Pub
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The Book of Durrow: A Medieval Masterpiece at Trinity College Dublinby Bernard MeehanISBN 1570980535 (1-57098-053-5)
Hardcover, Irish Books & Media
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Bornholm Night-ferryby Aidan HigginsISBN 1564784150 (1-56478-415-0)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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Celtic Christianity: A Sacred Tradition, a Vision of Hopeby Timothy J. JoyceISBN 1570751765 (1-57075-176-5)
Softcover, Orbis Books
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The Celts: Life, Myth, and Artby Juliette WoodISBN 155670822X (1-55670-822-X)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Clans and Families of Irelandby John GrenhamISBN 1555218873 (1-55521-887-3)
Hardcover, Book Sales, Incorporated
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Confessions of a Pagan Nunby Kate HorsleyISBN 1570629137 (1-57062-913-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of a Pagan Nun'Book summary:This moving and subtle tale both embodies and confirms the enduring power of language. Gwynneve (Gwi-NEEV) is raised in a village of fishermen and pigkeepers at the height of Ireland's transition from Paganism to Christianity. All around her the new doctrines of Patrick and the "tonsured men" are inexorably driving out the old Druid ways. When Gwynneve loses the two figures she loved the mosther mother succumbing to disease, her outspoken Druid teacher abducted by his enemiesshe leaves her village and finally takes refuge in the convent of Saint Brigit. Of her past life and loves she retains only intangibles: her mother's love of nature and independent mind, her teacher's gift of literacy and addiction to truth. Clinging to the one constant and comforting force in her lifethe power of words, and their offer of immortality to those who set them downshe records her memories surreptitiously, interrupting her assigned tasks of transcribing Patrick and Augustine. But disturbing events from the present keep intervening. Finally, her headstrong ways and growing criticism of the monastery's new abbot lead to the accusation that she consorts with demons. The story's tragic conclusion confirms both Gwynneve's fears and her powers: centuries after she and her tormentors sink back into the Irish earth, her words remain to haunt and inspire us. [via]
Creative Irish Guitarby Lisle CrowleyISBN 1569221529 (1-56922-152-9)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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The Critic as Artistby Oscar WildeISBN 1557133689 (1-55713-368-9)
Softcover, Sun & Moon Press
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Cycle of Violenceby Colin BatemanISBN 1559703490 (1-55970-349-0)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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D.H. Lawrence's Women in Loveby D. H. LawrenceISBN 1555460259 (1-55546-025-9)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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The Dictionary of Irish Family Namesby Ida GrehanISBN 1568332246 (1-56833-224-6)
Softcover, Roberts Rinehart Madison
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dictionary of Irish Family Names'Book summary:With almost 25 million people claiming Irish ancestry in the United States alone, this dictionary is an indispensable guide to Irish names, not only their meaning, but also the history of some of the more prominent families as well as the pronunciation of the original Gaelic. [via]
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Divorcing Jackby Colin BatemanISBN 1559703598 (1-55970-359-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Doctor's Dilemmaby Bernard ShawISBN 1421976846 (1-4219-7684-6)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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A Dublin Girl: Growing Up in the 1930sby Elaine CrowleyISBN 1569471371 (1-56947-137-1)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellionby Charles TownshendISBN 156663704X (1-56663-704-X)
Hardcover, Ivan R Dee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion'Book summary:Irelands Easter Rising of 1916 is one of the handful of modern historical events that instantly created its own mythology and changed millions of lives forever. Charles Townshend's remarkable new book vividly re-creates this extraordinary time when, as Irish insurgents rose up and occupied Dublin, as British artillery retaliated ferociously and flattened the city center, as the last haggard rebels surrendered and their leaders were shot, a powerful narrative was born and Ireland was launched into a new world. Scraping away layer upon layer of myth, Easter 1916 reveals an Ireland polarized, confused, and fearful, hovering on the brink of war between Nationalists and Unionists, and presenting Britain with a seemingly insoluble problem. With the worlds attention on the First World War, a group of exceptional Irish men and womenfrom the eloquent intellectual Patrick Pearse to the revolutionary socialist James Connollydecided to take the actions that turned a peaceful provincial city into a bloody battleground and then into a national capital. The repercussions of these events we still feel today. With 8 pages of black-and-white photographs. [via]
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The Easter Rebellionby Malachy Francis CaulfieldISBN 157098042X (1-57098-042-X)
Softcover, Roberts Rinehart Pub
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Elliott O'Donnell's Casebook of Ghosts: True Stories from the Files of One of the World's Greatest Ghost Huntersby Elliott O'DonnellISBN 1555215319 (1-55521-531-9)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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Eureka Streetby Robert McLiam WilsonISBN 1559703962 (1-55970-396-2)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eureka Street'Book summary:Robert McLiam Wilson was born in Belfast in 1964 and that is all the biographical information the flyleaf offers. But what it really means to be a Belfast boy, both in the sixties and now, is vividly captured within its pages.
Eureka Street is set in the troubled city during the fragile cease-fires of the late 1990s. It's the story of Chuckie Lurgan, a poor, fat, Protestant boy whose life lurches from monotony into a fairy tale after his 30th birthday. Love suddenly comes in the shape of Max, an American girl whose diplomat father was killed within minutes of setting foot on Belfast soil; and money comes in the guise of a Government business loan. Good fortune almost comes via the scams of ready-to-wear Balaklava shops and leprechaun walking sticks, a running joke taken seriously by the rest of the world. Chuckie is Belfast--a mismatched dream; a battle to make something from nothing; a charmer with feet of clay.
Jake Jackson is his opposite--hard, Catholic and looking for the love that Chuckie seems to attract without trying. A realist among the bombs and roadblocks, Jake still has a poet's voice, passionate about his city- -"the air is full of regret and desire. You should stand some night on Cable Street, letting the little wind pluck your flesh ... the city will stick to your fingers like Sellotape."
This is a blissful bruiser of a book, with humour and affection drawing the painfully acute portraits together. "Chuckie's mother was a big woman, built historical, like a ship or a city & since he had been 14 years old, he had lived in quiet dread of his mother making her mark." Addictive, triumphant, sharp, sad and witty--it's no wonder that the BBC snapped this up for a series. --Elizabeth McGregor [via]
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Faery Wiccaby Kisma K. StepanichISBN 1567186947 (1-56718-694-7)
Softcover, Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd
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Falls Memoriesby Gerry AdamsISBN 1568331916 (1-56833-191-6)
Softcover, Roberts Rinehart Pub
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Fields of Fireby James H. WebbISBN 1557509638 (1-55750-963-8)
Softcover, Naval Inst Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fields of Fire'Book summary:Hailed as the most important novel to emerge from the Vietnam War, Fields of Fire launched a spectacular writing career for James Webb in 1978. A much-decorated former marine who fought and was wounded in Vietnam, Webb tells the story of a platoon of tough, young marines enduring the tropical hell of Southeast Asian jungles while facing an invisible enemy--in a war no one understands. It is a powerful work that brilliantly expresses the basic ambiguity of war: the repulsion of war's destruction contrasted with the grisly attraction of war as the ultimate test of survival. [via]
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Further Cuttings: From Cruiskeen Lawnby Flann O'Brien, Kevin O'NolanISBN 1564782417 (1-56478-241-7)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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Gender and Sexuality in Modern Irelandby Anthony Bradley, Maryann Gialanella ValiulisISBN 1558491317 (1-55849-131-7)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland'Book summary:This collection of stimulating essays focuses on issues of gender and sexuality in Irish history, biography, language, literature, and drama. While the contributors employ a variety of methodological and critical perspectives, they share the conviction that the gendering of Ireland-not only of the nation, but of actual Irish men and women-is a construction of culture and ideology and not simply one of nature. [via]
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The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in Americaby Arthur Gribben, Ruth-Ann M. HarrisISBN 1558491732 (1-55849-173-2)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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GURPS Celtic Mythby Ken Walton, Jo Walton, Steve Jackson Games StaffISBN 1556341954 (1-55634-195-4)
Softcover, Jackson Games, Incorporated, Steve
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Harringtonby Maria Edgeworth, Susan ManlyISBN 1551114070 (1-55111-407-0)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harrington'Book summary:Harrington (1817) is the personal narrative of a recovering anti-Semite, a young man whose phobia of Jews is instilled in early childhood and who must unlearn his irrational prejudice when he falls in love with the daughter of a Spanish Jew. In this novel, Edgeworth attempts to challenge prejudice and to show how literary representations affect public policy, while at the same time interrogating contemporary understandings of freedom in English society. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a judicious selection of appendices, including correspondence between Edgeworth and Rachel Mordecai Lazarus, excerpts from John Toland's Letters to Serena and Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews, an excerpt from Isaac D'Israeli's article on Moses Mendelssohn, and contemporary reviews of the novel. [via]
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Hellblazerby Garth EnnisISBN 1563891506 (1-56389-150-6)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hellblazer'Book summary:John Constantine, the main character in Hellblazer, was originally a very minor character in DC Comics' Swamp Thing. Next came his only series, in which this hard-smoking, hard-drinking, all around manipulator walked the thin line of magic between this world and hell. So when Irishman Garth Ennis was asked to write this comic book, he had asked himself, "What could I possibly do to John Constantine that hadn't been done before? And one course of action suddenly stood out above all others: Kill him." The result is a tense supernatural drama that begins with Constantine being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Though this book only hints at the freeform casualness and over-the-top vulgarity that became Ennis's trademark in the Preacher series, this is an immensely enjoyable read with strong characters and dynamite plot twists. --Jim Pascoe [via]
The Hobbitby J.R.R. TolkienISBN 1560600543 (1-56060-054-3)
Softcover, Eclipse Books
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The House on the Borderlandby Darrell Schweitzer, William Hope HodgsonISBN 1557424101 (1-55742-410-1)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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The House on the Borderlandby Simon RevelstrokeISBN 1563895455 (1-56389-545-5)
Hardcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House on the Borderland'Book summary:This classic novel of the weird supernatural, first published in 1908, was an important influence on H. P. Lovecraft. In the ruins of an ancient stone house in Ireland is found the diary of an elderly man who lived alone with his sister and their pets, and who longed for his lost love. The diary tells of how the man explores a cyclopean cavern beneath the house and fights off swarms of white pig-like monsters pouring up from below. Then, in a visionary sequence, he breaks through to an alternate space-time dimension and sees a doppelganger of his house on a vast desolate plain. The prose is hokey at times, but the strange mood evoked by the other-dimensional setting is powerful indeed. As acclaimed horror writer T. E. D. Klein says, "Never has a book so hauntingly conveyed a sense of terrible loneliness and isolation." [via]
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The House on the Borderlandby William Hope HodgsonISBN 1426438281 (1-4264-3828-1)
Softcover, Bibliobazaar
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Ireland: Art into Historyby Raymond Gillespie, Brian P. KennedyISBN 1570980055 (1-57098-005-5)
Hardcover, Roberts Rinehart Pub
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Irish Countryby Ann Rooney HeuerISBN 1567996795 (1-56799-679-5)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Irish Fairy Talesby James StephensISBN 1428022074 (1-4280-2207-4)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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Irish Family Historiesby Ida GrehanISBN 1570980411 (1-57098-041-1)
Softcover, Roberts Rinehart Pub
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An Irish Night Before Christmasby James Rice, Sarah Kirwan BlazekISBN 1565540867 (1-56554-086-7)
Hardcover, Pelican Pub Co Inc
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Irish Stories for Christmasby John B. KeaneISBN 1570980500 (1-57098-050-0)
Softcover, Roberts Rinehart Pub
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Killoyleby Roger BoylanISBN 1564781453 (1-56478-145-3)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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Kimby Maire Fhlathuin, Marie Ni FhlathuinISBN 1551115212 (1-55111-521-2)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Medeaby Euripides, Nicholas RudallISBN 1566633214 (1-56663-321-4)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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The Missionaryby Morgan, Julia M. WrightISBN 1551112639 (1-55111-263-9)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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Mr. Dynamiteby Meredith BrosnanISBN 1564783537 (1-56478-353-7)
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A Nest of Simple Folkby Seán O'FaoláinISBN 1559720417 (1-55972-041-7)
Hardcover, Bedfordshire Historical Record Society
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The Newton Letterby John BanvilleISBN 1567920969 (1-56792-096-9)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Irishby Martin Holland, Davis CoakleyISBN 1570980837 (1-57098-083-7)
Softcover, Roberts Rinehart Pub
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The Parish and the Hillby Mary Doyle CurranISBN 155861396X (1-55861-396-X)
Softcover, Feminist Pr
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The Perfect Stranger: A Memoirby P.J. KavanaghISBN 1555971156 (1-55597-115-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Pictures in My Headby Gabriel ByrneISBN 1570981523 (1-57098-152-3)
Softcover, Roberts Rinehart Pub
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Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work From Tennyson To Plathby Elise Paschen, Charles Osgood, Rebekah Presson MosbyISBN 1570717206 (1-57071-720-6)
Hardcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work From Tennyson To Plath'Book summary:Poetry Speaks features the work of the most influential writers in modern poetry-written and performed-from 1892 to 1997. This book combines their most significant poems in print with the authors themselves reading their poetry on audio CD. Poets range from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot and Dorothy Parker to Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath and Gwendolyn Brooks.
The power of spoken poetry is at the heart of Poetry Speaks. Poetry is a vocal art, an art meant to be read aloud. Listening to a poem read aloud can be a transforming experience. Poetry Speaks not only introduces the finest work from some of the greatest poets who ever lived, it reintroduces the oral tradition of poetry.
Poetry Speaks features over 40 poets in chapters each containing:
" The poems that are read by the poet on the audio CD
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" A short biography and photo of each poet
" Original manuscripts and letters for most of the featured poets
" An original essay for each poet written by todays most influential poets, a veritable Whos Who of poetry, including: Seamus Heaney on W.B. Yeats; Richard Wilbur on Robert Frost; Mark Strand on Wallace Stevens; Jorie Graham on Elizabeth Bishop; Glyn Maxwell on Dylan Thomas; and Rita Dove on Melvin B. Tolson.
Poetry Speaks-combining the talents of great poets past and living, their words written and spoken-is the most ambitious, comprehensive and innovative poetry project to be published in years, and is sure to be the model for collections to come. [via]More editions of Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work From Tennyson To Plath:
The Quiet Man and Other Storiesby Maurice WalshISBN 1570981396 (1-57098-139-6)
Softcover, Roberts Rinehart Pub
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Relations: New and Selected Poemsby Eamon GrennanISBN 1555972802 (1-55597-280-2)
Softcover, Graywolf Press
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Ripley Bogleby Robert McLiam WilsonISBN 1559704241 (1-55970-424-1)
Hardcover, Arcade Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ripley Bogle'Book summary:"I am twenty-one years old, my name is Ripley Bogle and my occupations are starving, freezing, and weeping hysterically." So announces the eponymous narrator of this alternately hilarious and horrifying novel by the Irish writer Robert McLiam Wilson, author of Eureka Street. Ripley Bogle is a Cambridge dropout from Northern Ireland who's fallen down on his luck. Having alienated everyone he knows--seemingly including the entire population of Cambridge--he disrupts an old girlfriend's wedding, attacks his landlord, and finds himself unceremoniously chucked out onto the street. The narrative follows this handsome vagrant for four chilly June days while he wanders London, ranting and reminiscing in heady stream-of-consciousness prose. Reared amid the poverty and violence of Belfast, Bogle doesn't have a kind word for anyone or anything, including his family ("the usual cast list of subhuman Gaelic scumbuckets") and his countrymen ("As a people we're a shambles; as a nation--a disgrace; as a culture we're a bore ... individually we're often repellent"). What he does have is a great Joycean roar of a voice and a prodigious talent for self-destruction. Bogle can try the reader's patience: some of his tirades read like tragicomic howls of pain, others like pure postadolescent gross-out. The novel's end takes a still nastier turn; even after Bogle's unrelentingly grim portrait of life on the London streets, his concluding confessions manage to shock. Ugliness aside, the sheer wattage of Wilson's prose carries the day, and his narrative has all the momentum--and the queasy fascination--of a car accident in progress. --Mary Park [via]
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The Road to Perditionby Max Allen Collins, Bob Lappan, Richard Piers RaynerISBN 1563894491 (1-56389-449-1)
Softcover, Vertigo
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Scenes From A Receding Pastby Aidan HigginsISBN 1564783871 (1-56478-387-1)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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The Screwtape Lettersby C. S. LewisISBN 1557481423 (1-55748-142-3)
Softcover, Spring Arbor Distributors
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Screwtape Letters'Book summary:This adaptation of C.S. Lewis's biting satire received a 1999 Grammy nomination for best spoken-word performance, and it's easy to see why--the story fits the format perfectly. It's relatively brief (the unabridged reading takes a mere four hours), and contains only one character--the demon Screwtape, who writes letters to his novice nephew Wormwood, instructing him on how to best tempt his "patient" (a wayward soul on earth) into the bosom of "our Lord below."
Obviously, the book wasn't written with former Monty Python John Cleese in mind, but it's hard to imagine a better Screwtape. Cleese's voice provides the perfect vehicle for Lewis's dry, razor-edged wit. His uncanny comic timing and ability to milk each phrase for maximum effect betray an infectious enthusiasm for the story. It's clear that he's having a great time reading, and it's impossible not to laugh along with him. This inspired pairing of two of the 20th century's greatest wits makes for a meditation on the dark side of spiritual guidance that's as relevant and funny today as it was in Lewis's war-torn England. (Running time: 4 hours, 3 cassettes) --Andrew Neiland [via]
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The Secret Roseby W. B. Yeats, A. Norman JeffaresISBN 1570980969 (1-57098-096-9)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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A Sentimental Journeyby Laurence SterneISBN 1421901188 (1-4219-0118-8)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italyby Laurence SterneISBN 1426406991 (1-4264-0699-1)
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Smile and Be a Villain!by Niall ToibinISBN 1570980861 (1-57098-086-1)
Softcover, Denver Museum of
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South Boston, My Home Town: The History of an Ethnic Neighborhoodby Thomas H. O'ConnorISBN 1555531881 (1-55553-188-1)
Softcover, Northeastern University Press
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St. Patrick's Day Shamrocksby Mary BerendesISBN 1567666434 (1-56766-643-4)
Hardcover, The Childs World Inc
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The Star Factoryby Ciaran Carson, Carson CiaranISBN 1559704659 (1-55970-465-9)
Hardcover, Arcade Pub
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Stirrings Stillby Samuel BeckettISBN 1562010158 (1-56201-015-8)
Softcover, Avalon Publishing Group
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Times to Rememberby Rose Fitzgerald KennedyISBN 1568495676 (1-56849-567-6)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Under the Eye of the Clock: A Memoirby Christopher NolanISBN 1559705124 (1-55970-512-4)
Softcover, Arcade Pub
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