Results for: books tagged ‘Ireland’

  1. Philadelphia, Here I Come

    Philadelphia, Here I Come: Brian Friel

    Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and the humiliating job in his father's grocery shop, with his frustrated love for Kathy Doogan ... More

  2. Translations

    Translations: Brian Friel

    The action in Translations takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps ... More

  3. The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry

    The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry: Paul Muldoon

    Taking the death of Yeats in 1939 as its starting point and ending in the 1980s, The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry offers unusually generous selections from the work ... More

  4. Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme

    Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme: Frank McGuinness

    'This powerful and subtle play . . . follows the experience of eight men who volunteer to serve in the 36th (Ulster) Division at the beginning of the First World ... More

  5. Making History

    Making History: Brian Friel

    The central character of this play is Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an Irish and Spanish alliance against the armies of Elizabeth I in an attempt to drive ... More

  6. Ourselves Alone

    Ourselves Alone: Anne Devlin

    'Ourselves Alone . . . is an immensely promising stage debut. Devlin writes a tough, deeply felt prose . . . Steely with sardonic humour and outraged feeling. Her subject ... More

  7. Dancing at Lughnasa

    Dancing at Lughnasa: Brian Friel

    It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging ... More

  8. The Promise of Light

    The Promise of Light: Paul Watkins

    The year is 1921. Ben Sheridan, a young American, sets out for Ireland to track down his true family, and walks straight into the savagery of the Black-and-Tan war. The ... More

  9. After Easter

    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

  10. Over Nine Waves

    Over Nine Waves: Marie Heaney

    'These legends are the action-packed stories - of ancient heroes, huge battles, attempted invasions, prophecies and spells, clashes between the underworld and the real world, abductions, love affairs and feasts ... More

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