Ireland, past and present

Brendan Kennelly

G & M

This book presents Irish women - known and unknown, real and invented - as their compatriots have described and interpreted them. They range from figures in history to the hairdresser, terrorist's wife and nurse. The editors draw upon mythological tales, letters, biographies, autobiographies, newspapers and official reports as well as poems, novels, stories, plays, recordings and songs to form this sympathetic selection that conveys fresh insights into the varied and vital experience of Irish women.

Ireland's Women: Writings Past and Present

Literature & Fiction

Katie Donovan

A. Norman Jeffares

World Literature

GILL MACMILLAN

Moloney Up and at It

Poetry

Cork and Dublin, The Mercier Press, 1984

Dublines

Dublin has been called the center of the paralysis of the Universe, the second city of Empire, Scandaltown, Strumpet City, a series of accidental encounters, the largest village in Europe, the fishy home of Molly Malone, and occasionally the capital of Ireland. Although Dublin has had a history that encompasses a huge range of human experience, Dublines is not a conventional historical presentation of the city's fascinating character; it is more a series of pictures and a choir of voices combined to form a complex portrait. ""All of its [the book's] writers have something to say, and they generally do so with flourish, subtlety, and conviction."" - The Boston Book Review.

Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

<p>Dublin has been called the center of the paralysis of the Universe, the second city of Empire, Scandaltown, Strumpet City, a series of accidental encounters, the largest village in Europe, the fishy home of Molly Malone, and occasionally the capital of Ireland. Although Dublin has had a history that encompasses a huge range of human experience, Dublines is not a conventional historical presentation of the city's fascinating character; it is more a series of pictures and a choir of voices combined to form a complex portrait. ""All of its [the book's] writers have something to say, and they generally do so with flourish, subtlety, and conviction."" - The Boston Book Review.</p>

Brendan Kennelly is one of Ireland's most popular and prolific poets. Over the past five decades he has written thousands of poems published in over 30 books of poetry, including three previous editions of Selected Poems. Published on his 75th birthday, this new selection presents just over a hundred of Kennelly's most essential poems, accompanied by an audio CD of his own readings drawn from two classic recordings made in Dublin in 1982 and 1999. The Essential Brendan Kennelly has been edited by two lifelong admirers of his work. Like Kennelly, Terence Brown, Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature, studied at Trinity College Dublin, and taught there for most of life. After studying at Trinity College, Michael Longley went on to become one of Ireland's leading poets and was Ireland Professor of Poetry in 2007-10.

The Essential Brendan Kennelly

The singing tree

Abbey Press

The Singing Tree

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