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Publisher
The Lilliput Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"DRAWN FROM FOUR CENTURIES of writing in English by the famous and the forgotten, Ireland's Other Poetry: Anonymous to Zozimus is a major new anthology of entertaining and unusual poems, rhymes and songs. It revisits a forgotten Irish poetic landscape, bringing the reader on an exhilarating alphabetical tour through a country freighted with unexpected curiosities, from Dunluce to Belfast, Dublin, Cork and the Skelligs.Many anonymous or neglected poets,...
23) September song
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The enthralling third novel in the chronicle of the O'Malleys in the twentieth century.
The fourth of the O'Malley chronicles is narrated by the ravishing Rosemarie, dedicated wife of our intrepid and trouble-prone hero, Chucky Cronin O'Malley. Destined to be compared to the Lanny Budd novels of Upton Sinclair and the Chicago novels of James T. Farrell, September Song follows the crazy O'Malley saga from Chucky's appointment as Ambassador to Germany...
Author
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Carcanet publishes several Catulluses: C.H. Sisson's, Len Krisak's, Simon Smith's. But Isobel Williams's Catullus: Shibari Carmina is different in kind from the earlier versions. 'Translating Catullus has been, for me, like cage fighting with two opponents,' the translator writes: 'not just A Top Poet, but the schoolgirl I was, trained to show the examiner that she knew what each word meant.' The struggle is intensified by the presence of a third...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
One of the twentieth century's most admired and influential authors, G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) created an enduring body of work that encompasses journalism, poetry, plays, history, biography, apologetics, and detective fiction. Chesterton's thought-provoking writings have profoundly affected countless readers, including C. S. Lewis, Michael Collins, and Mahatma Gandhi. This anthology features two unabridged works of fiction: Chesterton's thriller,...
27) Black Irish
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Although a good kid and gifted pitcher, sixteen-year-old Cole McKay's imploding South Boston Irish Catholic family threatens to drag him down until, while at a crossroads, a life and death situation makes him choose his path.
Author
Publisher
Birlinn Limited
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"The celebrated Scottish poet brings together nearly 20 years of work in this anthology-- "a rare thing: a book of poems which sparkles" ( Scotsman , UK). Liz Lochhead has built an impressive reputation as poet, playwright and performer attracting a large and admiring public. She gained worldwide acclaim as the Scots Makar--or Scotland's National Poet--from 2011 to 2016, and before that served for six years as Poet Laureate of Glasgow. Dreaming...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"From the author of The New Irish Table comes this celebration of the Emerald Isle's classic desserts, featuring eighty wonderful recipes. Everybody loves a fool -- especially made fluffy with ripe strawberries or tangy apple. From lemony puddings and marmalade-slathered scones to fruit-filled tarts and berry-laden crumbles, these contemporary renditions of the traditional desserts of Ireland make perfect use of common staples such as oatmeal, fruit,...
Author
Publisher
The Lilliput Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
"First published in 1947, these celebrated lectures and introductions to the medieval and modern Gaelic-speaking culture, which was drawing to a close when Flower first came to Ireland in 1910, form a primary source for generations of scholars and readers, Celticists and medievalists. This edition is accompanied by Professor Delargy's In Memoriam and an updated bibliography of Flower's works."--
31) Irish Americans
Author
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides information on the background, heritage, and traditions of Irish Americans.
32) Utopia
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Utopia (1516) is a work of political satire by Thomas More. Published in Latin while More was serving as Privy Counsellor under King Henry VIII, the text is stylized as a true account of a new civilization discovered in the New World by traveler Raphael Hythlodaeus. While there have been varying interpretations of Utopia over the centuries, it is most consistently regarded as a work of political philosophy in the tradition of Plato's Republic that...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A biography of nineteenth-century author Oscar Wilde, following him from his childhood in an intellectual Irish household to his death in France, and discussing his writing career, his American tour, his marriage, his scandalous sexual behavior, and his exile.
34) James Joyce
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A biography of twentieth-century Irish novelist James Joyce, discussing his development of his masterwork "Ulysses," and the world's reaction to its publication.
35) Arms and the Man
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
One of George Bernard Shaw's most performed and studied plays, "Arms and the Man" is a classic example of Shaw's comedic wit. First produced in 1894, the play is set during the Serbo-Bulgarian war and tells the story of Raina Petkoff, a young Bulgarian woman, who is engaged to Sergius, a soldier away at war whom she idolizes. While both her father and fiancé are away fighting, Raina, at home with her mother, has a very innocent and romantic idea...
Publisher
The Lilliput Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"ULSTER' S OTHER POETRY proves that the people of Ulster have never been humourless or dour. Far from it. With its sparkling variety of rhymes, songs and humorous poems from every tradition of the province, the book demonstrates that those who dwell in the northern quarter of Ireland have their own unique take on the strange ways of the world, coupled with a whole-hearted appreciation of good fun. Spanning over three centuries of Ulster's past, this...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Born in Burma in 1870, Scottish writer H. H. Munro adopted the pseudonym Saki to satirize the social conventions, cruelty, and foolishness of the Edwardian era. His highly readable blend of flippant humor and outrageous inventiveness is often overlaid with a mood of horror. After Munro's untimely death in action during World War I, Christopher Morley wrote: "the empty glass we turn down for him is the fragile, hollow-stemmed goblet meant for the finest...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Written between 1845 and 1846 and first published in 1850, "Sonnets from the Portuguese" is a series of love poems written by the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning to her husband, the famous English poet and playwright, Robert Browning, which was critically acclaimed and instantly popular upon its publication and has remained so to this day. Referring to her olive-skinned complexion, Robert called his wife "his little Portuguese". It is from...
40) Irish wolfhounds
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Simple text and full-color photographs describe Irish Wolfhounds"--
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