| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxi, 458 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 450-454). |
| Contents |
Contents: Overtures: George Bernard Shaw -- Kate O'Brien -- Pete Hamill -- Oscar Wilde -- Brendan Kennelly -- W.B. Yeats -- Edna O'Brien -- John Hume -- St. Brigid -- James Joyce -- from The Legion club -- The description of an Irish feast -- from The Drapier's fourth letter [Jonathan Swift] -- from The shadow of the gunman [Sean O'Casey] -- from A portrait of the artist as a young man -- from Ulysses [James Joyce] -- from More pricks than kicks (Ding dong) [Samual Beckett] -- Anna Liffey [Eavan Boland] -- from Are you somebody? [Nuala O'Faolain] -- from The Commitments [Roddy Doyle] -- from A portrait of the artist as a young man [James Joyce] -- Cormac Mac Airt presiding at Tara [Cormac Mac Airt] -- from How the Irish saved civilization: Patric's breastplate [Thomas Cahill] -- In the middle of the fields [Mary Lavin] -- In Glencullen -- To the oaks of Glencree -- Prelude -- Is it a month [John Millington Synge] -- St. Kevin and the blackbird [Seamus Heaney] -- from Ireland: your only place [Jan Morris] -- from Excursions in the real world: memoirs [William Trevor] -- from Wheels within wheels [Dervla Murphy] -- The talking trees [Sean O'Faolain] -- The drunkard [Frank O'Connor] -- Which is more than I can say about some people [Lorrie Moore] -- from Bowen's court [Elizabeth Bowen] -- The lament for Art O'Leary [Eileen O'Connell] -- The hag of Beara [Anonymous] -- Kathaleen Ny-Houlahan [Liam Dall O'hlfearnain] -- from In West Kerry [John Millington Synge] -- Oilean (Island) [Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill] -- from The farm by Lough Gur [Mary Carbery] -- from My Ireland [Kate O'Brien] -- from Angela's ashes [Frank McCourt] -- from An Irish journey [Sean O'Faolain] -- from The midnight court [Brian Merriman] -- from Mother Ireland [Edna O'Brien] -- The rising of the moon [Lady Augusta Gregory] -- To be carved on a stone at Thoor Ballylee -- A prayer for my daughter [William Butler Yeats] -- She weeps over Rahoon [James Joyce] -- Ode to Rahoon Flats -- The did-you-come-yets of the western world [Rita Ann Higgins] -- from The Aran Islands [John Millington Synge] -- from Adventures in Connemara [Maria Edgeworth] -- On Mweelrea [Michael Longley] -- from The playboy of the western world [John Millington Synge] -- Who goes with Fergus? -- Down by the Salley Gardens -- The hosting of the Sidhe -- from Autobiographies -- The Lake Isle of Innisfree -- The fiddler of Dooney -- The song of wandering Aengus -- from The stolen child -- Towards break of day -- from In memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz -- from Under Ben Bulben [William Butler Yeats] -- from Dancing at Lughnasa [Brian Friel] -- Blood and water [Eilis Ni Dhuibhne] -- from A house of children [Joyce Cary] -- from Reading in the dark [Seamus Deane] -- Mossbawn sunlight -- The strand at Lough Beg -- Anahorish -- from Sweeney in flight [Seamus Heaney Digging] -- Going home [Brian Moore] -- The society of the bomb -- On Ballycastle Beach [Medbh McGuckian] |
| Subject |
English literature -- Irish authors.
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Irish literature -- Translations into English.
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Ireland -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Cahill, Susan, 1940-
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| ISBN |
0345434196 |
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9780345434197 |
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