Results for: books tagged ‘Ireland’
20th-Century Irish Poems: Michael Longley
'This anthology results from decades of random reading plus a recent deliberate trawl to discover more examples of what Robert Graves calls 'heart-rending sense', poems I would want to copy ... More
After Easter: Anne Devlin
After Easter is not a political play, rather a psychological play - inevitably funny. It is a contemporary portrait of a woman who reaches that point in her life when ... More
Amongst Women: John McGahern
Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out ... More
The Anglo-Irish Tradition: J. C. Beckett
'I was brought up to think myself Irish without question or qualification,' wrote the Irish author and politician, Stephen Gwynn, in the 1920s, 'but the new nationalism prefers to describe ... More
Annie Dunne: Sebastian Barry
Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farmin a remote and beautiful part of Wicklow in late1950s Ireland. All about them the old green roads ... More
The Barracks: John McGahern
Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own; her husband is straining to ... More
The Big Chapel: Thomas Kilroy
'And now The Big Chapel has a chance to come back to full life after 30 years of catalepsy. The Red Priest will thunder again. The big chapel will be desecrated. The Master will be felled.' -- Brian Friel writing in the Guardian More
The Blue Tango: Eoin McNamee
'At 2.20am in the morning of the 13th November 1952 the body of 19 year old Patricia Curran was carried into the surgery belonging to the family doctor. At first ... More
The Breezes: Joseph O'Neill
Joseph O'Neill's dark and hilarious tragicomedy is an account of the Breeze family's most hellish fortnight, a time in which insurance policies, security systems and lucky underpants are pitted against ... More
Brian Friel Plays 1: Brian Friel
With the production of Philadelphia, Here I Come! in 1964, Brian Friel established his claim to be the true heir of such distinguished predecessors as Yeats, Synge, O'Casey and Beckett. ... More
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