In the tradition of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable comes the most complete single-volume reference guide to the folklore, language and culture of Ireland. Authors Jo O'Donoghue and Sean McMahon cover an impressive range of subjects in over 5000 entries, with special attention paid to the unique legends, superstitions and fables of the Emerald Isle. Other topics addressed include contemporary Irish culture, the origins of Irish words and sayings, and Irish literature throughout the ages. At once scholarly and whimsical, this is a truly indispensable trove of fact and fancy for any lover of Irish culture.

Brewer's Dictionary Of Irish Phrase & Fable

Reference

McMahon, Seán

O'Donoghue, Jo

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Cassell

Provides definitions of Irish phrases and words and explains their historical origins.

Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase & Fable

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Chambers Harrap Pub Ltd

Brian Moore: A critical study (Gill's studies in Irish literature)

Gill and Macmillan

Moore grew up in Northern Ireland and as a young man spent a number of years travelling throughout Europe while working for the British Ministry of War Transport. In 1948 he left for Montreal, where he began his literary career. While living in Canada he supported his writing by working as a proof-reader, reporter, and pseudonymous thriller-writer. He wrote his first serious novel, Judith Hearne, during a stay of several months in a log cabin in Quebec's Laurentian Mountains. After eleven years in Canada, he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and moved to New York. He eventually moved to Hollywood to write a film for Alfred Hitchcock and now lives in Malibu, California. Jo O'Donoghue identifies Moore as a writer particularly interested both in questions of religion and in a world he believes to have largely abandoned traditional spiritual values. Moore's Irish Catholic upbringing, she demonstrates, has located him in an enclosed, self-sufficient community with a strong sense of the spiritual. O'Donoghue regards Moore as remarkable among modern male novelists for the depth of his interest in women and the sensitivity and acuteness of his insights into women's psychology. Although Moore, in a literary career spanning more than thirty years, has published sixteen novels and one work of reportage and has won numerous literary prizes, he has only recently attracted the sort of consistent critical acclaim which is his due. The Colour of Blood finally secured recognition for him as one of the truly important novelists of the late twentieth century. O'Donoghue's study is the first major critical analysis of the work of this gifted and accomplished writer.

Brian Moore: A Critical Study

History & Criticism

McGill-Queen's University Press

Here is a delightful collection of proverbs - centuries-old folk wisdom from all parts of Ireland - in Irish and English. Each proverb is illustrated by a specially commissioned black-and-white photograph by emerging Kerry photographer Lily Lenihan.

Favourite Irish Proverbs

Currach Pr

Guide to authors, places and works in Irish literature in English and Irish.

The Mercier Companion to Irish Literature

Irish Amer Book Co

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