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A Poet's Journal and Other Writings
€25.00 - now €16.75
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A powerful and authoritative selection of critical essays and reviews by poet Padraic Fallon. Skilfully compiled and edited by his son Brian Fallon, this book is published to mark the centenary of his father's birth.
Padraic Fallon (1905 - 1974), one ...
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Bums, Farts & Other Inappropriate Acts
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In this work John Partridge (assisted by John Martin) proves that Jonathan Swift was the author of The Benefit of Farting and Arse Musica (1722 and subsequent editions). The volume contains a poem about Hester (Vanessa) Van Homrigh that the author main...
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Cadenus & Swift's Most Valuable Friend
€15.99 - now €14.39
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These books are being reissued as they appeared in the first Dolmen Press editions in one composite volume, with an invaluable, contextual introduction by eighteenth-century Swift scholar Andrew Carpenter. He assesses the reaction of Swift's serious biogra...
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Cadenus & Swift's Most Valuable Friend (HB)
€40.00
These books are being reissued as they appeared in the first Dolmen Press editions in one composite volume, with an invaluable, contextual introduction by eighteenth-century Swift scholar Andrew Carpenter. He assesses the reaction of Swift's serious biogra...
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Crystal Clear: The Selected Prose of John Jordan
€25.00
Writer, poet, lecturer, broadcaster and man-of -letters, John Jordan (1930-88) was a distinguished scholar-critic in the Dublin of his day, teaching English at University College Dublin (1955-66) and at the Memorial University of Newfoundland at St John's...
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Galway of the Races
€14.99
Born of a Belfast manse, Robert Lynd (1879-1949) became one of the most
graceful and favoured writers of the early century, and had some thirty
books published in his lifetime. The essays in Galway of the Races
represent his writings on Ireland (Protest...
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Grandmother and Wolfe Tone
€21.50 - now €17.20
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'The finest and most penetrating essayist this country has produced this
century ... there is not a dull page in this civilized and witty book.'
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The Irish Times
A third vo...
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In The Land of Nod
€35.00
In The Land of Nod is the fourth and final volume of Hubert Butler's essays and crowns a remarkable literary odyssey. As Neal Ascherson writes: 'When the first collection appeared in 1985 he was already an old man/ His fame began to spread across his nat...
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More Myers: An Irishman's Diary 1997-2006
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Ribald, savage, coruscating, curmudgeonly: epithets come to mind at the mere mention of the name of Kevin Myers as he lays about him with an eighteenth-century verve and wit, veering between vilification and compassion, anatomizing the condition of contemp...
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My Time in Space
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'This is a stimulating book of exploration, experience and philosophical
meditation. As always with Robinson, the writing is exact and eloquent, the
terrritory exciting. This is a book to cherish and re-read, challenging,
infuriating and satisfying in turn...
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Reading the Future
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A fascinating series of interviews offering insight into the lives and work of twelve great
Irish writers, as selected by an eclectic panel of avid readers for the
RTE Radio One series Reading the Future.
"Writing, though it often deals with...
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Stimulus of Sin: Selected Writings of John Broderick
€16.99
Athlone-born writer John Broderick was an astringent commentator on the rapidly shifting mores of Ireland from the 1950s to the 1980s. Better known for his novels, he was also a prolific reviewer and essayist. This new collection brings together a fascinat...
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Stones of Aran: Labyrinth
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Like J.M. Synge almost a century before him, Tim Robinson portrays the
inner and outer life of a landscape and its inhabitants. Encyclopedia of
myth and reality, herbal, love-letter, mi...
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Tales and Imaginings
€19.99
From the two volumes of Stones of Aran to the essays collected in Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara and My Time in Space, Tim Robinson has established himself as one of the great non-fiction writers at work in the English language. In light of this, ...
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The Battle of the Books
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The war of words between critics and writers is no paper conflict but affects daily life where literature and politics interact. The twentieth-century concern is nowhere more evident than in Ireland today where the growing 'Troubles' in Ulster gave critic...
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The Children of Drancy
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With Escape from the Anthill, his first volume of essays, Hubert Butler
became universally acclaimed as one of Ireland's most enduring and
distinctive writers. In this long-awaited seq...
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The Dolmen Press (Limited edition)
€95.00
The Dolmen Press, which operated under the guiding hand of Liam Miller from 1951 to 1987, was a beacon in a dark time for Irish publishing and occupies a central position in the story of Irish poetry after Yeats. This collection of essays, edited by th...
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The Dolmen Press: A Celebration
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The Dolmen Press, which operated under the guiding hand of Liam Miller from 1951 to 1987, was a beacon in a dark time for Irish publishing and occupies a central position in the story of Irish poetry after Yeats. This collection of essays, edited by th...
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The Figure in the Cave and Other Essays
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'That Montague is a significant poet does not need proving. These essays
show that he is almost equally formidable as an autobiographer and critic.'
- Robert Greacen, Irish Independ...
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The Irish Tradition
€7.50 - now €6.00
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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 i...
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What Did I Die Of?
€20.00
Medicine and literature are the unifying strands in this skilfully wrought tapestry of Irish biographical portraiture. It delineates the pioneering 18th-century Limerick surgeon Sylvester O'Halloran, his contemporary Oliver Goldsmith MD, Dublin's Milton e...
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