Results for: books tagged ‘Ireland’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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