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  • Dublin Tales

    Edited by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series City Tales
    Dublin is one of the world's great literary cities, immortalized in works by some of the most celebrated international authors. It is a city of warmth and character, which combines the richest of histories with a vibrant contemporary edge, and which welcomes millions of people to its streets each year. In addition to being Ireland's capital city, Dublin is a city with a proud European identity and ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination

    by Eve Patten ...
    This book asks how English authors of the early to mid twentieth-century responded to the nationalist revolution in neighbouring Ireland in their work, and explores this response as an expression of anxieties about, and aspirations within, England itself. Drawing predominantly on novels of this period, but also on letters, travelogues, literary criticism, and memoir, it illustrates how Irish ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Irish Literature in Transition, 1940–1980: Volume 5

    Edited by Eve Patten ...
    Series series Irish Literature in Transition
    This volume explores the history of Irish writing between the Second World War (or the 'Emergency') in 1939 and the re-emergence of violence in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. It situates modern Irish writing within the contexts of cultural transition and transnational connection, often challenging pre-existing perceptions of Irish literature in this period as stagnant and mundane. While taking ... Read more

    $122.19 USD

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  • Dubliners

    by James Joyce ...
    Series series James Joyce - Starbooks Classics Collection
    Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by ... Read more

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  • Dangerous In Love

    by Leslie Thomas ...
    A walk through Kensal Green Cemetery, a meat pie in the greasy spoon, a weekend away complete with flannel pyjamas - Dangerous Davies knows how to treat the woman he loves.Detective Constable Davies has two things on his mind: Jemma Duval, the beautiful, black, hymn-singing social worker, and 'Lofty' Brock, the harmless old eccentric who drowned in the canal. To prove that Lofty's death was no ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Dubliners

    by James Joyce, Laurence Davies, Keith Carabine ...
    Series series Wordsworth Classics
    Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, ... Read more

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  • A Bloomsbury Group Short Story Collection: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway

    A Selection of Early Modernist Writers

    by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway ...
    Series Book 15 - Tenebray Press Classics
    The dislocation and disillusionment that came with the opening of the twentieth century, the scars of the “Great War,” the break down of traditional religion, the anonymity and isolation of growing urban landscapes, left its mark on prominent writers of the time. In this collection we see James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Ernest Hemingway (members of the Bloomsbury Group) begin to reexamine the ... Read more

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  • A Sackful of Limericks

    by Michael Palin ...
    If you've ever wondered what happened to the young fellow from Malta who bought his grandfather an altar…If you're concerned about the camper called Jack who found a huge snake in his pack…And if you suspect that an eccentric landowner called Grey spent Christmas a very strange way but aren't sure precisely what that entailed…Then a dip into Michael Palin's Sackful of Limericks will provide all ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • Colourful Irish Phrases

    by Micheál Ó Conghaile ...
    The Irish language has made a huge contribution to the English language as it's spoken in Ireland and beyond. Micheál Ó Conghaile's 'Colourful Irish Phrases' is a small compendium of characteristic phrases that will alert the reader to the unmistakable difference between our native language and English. Even the most basic words are expressed so differently. Please in Irish is más é do thoil é (if ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leabhar na hAthghabhála

    Poems of Repossession

    by Louis de Paor ...
    Poetry Book Society Recommended TranslationIrish-English bilingual editionThis is the first comprehensive critical anthology of modern poetry in Irish with English translations. It forms a sequel to Seán Ó Tuama and Thomas Kinsella's pioneering anthology, An Duanaire 1600-1900 / Poems of the Dispossessed (1981), but features many more poems in covering the work of 26 poets from the past century.It ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Dead and Other Stories - James Joyce

    by James Joyce ...
    In a list published by an American specialized magazine, which ranked the best short stories of the 20th century, the story chosen as the best was " The Dead" by James Joyce, and there are plenty of reasons for this choice. "The Dead" is the final story in the volume "Dubliners" and differs from the other stories both in its greater length and its poetic intensity and symbolism. The central theme ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years

    by Sue Townsend ...
    Series Book 4 - The Adrian Mole Series
    Can an adult still have a secret diary? Everyone's favorite angsty adolescent Brit is now a tormented twentysomething and still "a brilliant comic creation" ( The Times).Question: What have I done with my life? Answer: Nothing.At 23¾ years old, Adrian Mole is now an adult and almost prepared. On the upside: He's fallen for a perfectly lovely Nigerian waitress; he's seeing a therapist so as to talk ... Read more

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