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Product Description: This volume of selected poems celebrates Dermot Bolger's finest poetry written over forty years including previously unpublished new work. On a public level it charts a poet's passionate engagement with Irish society. Yet on a private level it is deeply intimate, charting the author's life in poems...read more
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9781848404694, titled "That Which Is Suddenly Precious: New & Selected Poems" | New Island Books, January 30, 2016, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: This volume of selected poems celebrates Dermot Bolger's finest poetry written over forty years including previously unpublished new work.
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9781848404304 | New Island Books, August 29, 2016, cover price $22.00
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9781907593109 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, April 30, 2015, cover price $20.00
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9781848402669 | New Island Books, September 5, 2013, cover price $18.95
Product Description: This honest, open, and revealing new collection was written in the aftermath of the death of the poet's wife. The poems manage to be richly tender love poems while mapping the unknown new territory in which any bereaved person finds themselves...read more
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9781848401907 | New Island Books, February 15, 2013, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: This honest, open, and revealing new collection was written in the aftermath of the death of the poet's wife.
Product Description: While a floundering Irish government clings to its illusion of power and an international troika waits in the wings, Martin - a mid-ranking civil servant - finds himself alone in a Beijing hotel: a superfluous accessory in a delegation accompanying a Minister to China...read more
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9781848401877 | New Island Books, January 15, 2013, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: While a floundering Irish government clings to its illusion of power and an international troika waits in the wings, Martin - a mid-ranking civil servant - finds himself alone in a Beijing hotel: a superfluous accessory in a delegation accompanying a Minister to China.
Product Description: Difficult as it may be in understand today, the Exploring English anthology of short stories was revolutionary when first published forty four years ago in 1967. For the first time the short story was to be taught as part of the English syllabus for the Intermediate Certificate...read more
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9780717150410 | Gill & Macmillan, August 15, 2011, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Difficult as it may be in understand today, the Exploring English anthology of short stories was revolutionary when first published forty four years ago in 1967.
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9781848400917 | New Island Books, June 1, 2011, cover price $13.15
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9781848400702 | New Island Books, August 31, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Tackles a rather sensational Irish subject: the children of single mothers, who were adopted or given away.
Product Description: The Ballymun Trilogy - by Irish playwright Dermot Bolger - uniquely captures the birth, demolition, and regeneration of an Irish satellite town. From These Green Heights was previously published, while The Townlands of Brazil and The Consequences of Lightning are now available for the first time...read more
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9781848400672 | New Island Books, February 1, 2010, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: The Ballymun Trilogy - by Irish playwright Dermot Bolger - uniquely captures the birth, demolition, and regeneration of an Irish satellite town.
Product Description: An Irish emigrant in Germany tells his son about football, and about home, through nostalgia for a match played many years ago. This is the story of Euro '88, the largest football event on the continent, and the Irish team are front and center...read more
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9781902602141 | New Island Books, September 1, 2000, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: An Irish emigrant in Germany tells his son about football, and about home, through nostalgia for a match played many years ago.
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9781934848012 | Gemmamedia, September 1, 2008, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: An Irish emigrant in Germany tells his son about football, and about home, through nostalgia for a match played many years ago.
Product Description: Shortlisted, Finalist, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards, Fiction Category, 2008Young Francis Hanrahan dreams desperately of a life different from that of his country-born, suburban-living parents. On his first day at his first job Francis makes his first real friend...read more
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9780292718067 | Univ of Texas Pr, March 15, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Shortlisted, Finalist, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards, Fiction Category, 2008Young Francis Hanrahan dreams desperately of a life different from that of his country-born, suburban-living parents.
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9781905494552 | New Island Books, June 1, 2007, cover price $16.45
A historical saga, set in the early decades of the twentieth century, which follows the lives and loves of one extraordinary family. This book is based upon, the extraordinary lives of a real-life Anglo-Irish family. It recreates a family in flux, driven by idealism, wracked by argument and united by love and the vivid memories of childhood.
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9780007154104 | Perennial, May 1, 2006, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A historical saga, set in the early decades of the twentieth century, which follows the lives and loves of one extraordinary family.
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9781904301332 | New Island Books, October 1, 2005, cover price $17.85
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9781904301851 | New Island Books, May 1, 2005, cover price $12.05 | About this edition: Book by Dermot Bolger
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9781509801558 | Pan Macmillan, January 1, 2004, cover price $25.35 | also contains Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel
9780330391115 | New edition (Pan Macmillan, July 7, 2000), cover price $11.70 | About this edition: Seven Irish women writers - Maeve Binchy, Clare Boylan, emma Donoghue, Anne Haverty, Eilis Ni Dhibhne, Kate O'Riordan and Deirdre Purcell - tell stories ranging from a reworking of the immaculate conception to a poignant encounter involving a long-married couple.
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9781509801558 | Pan Macmillan, January 1, 2004, cover price $25.35 | also contains Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel
9780156008662 | Mariner Books, March 1, 2000, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Seven Irish writers describe the revival of a legendary Dublin hotel, in individual chapters written by Maeve Binchy, Clare Boylan, Emma Donoghue, Anne Haverty, âEilis Nâi Dhuibhne, Kate O'Riordan, and Deirdre Purcell.
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9781902602745 | New Island Books, August 1, 2002, cover price $27.95
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9780006552376 | New edition (Harpercollins Pub Ltd, July 1, 2002), cover price $12.35 | About this edition: Chronicling the darker side of contemporary Dublin life this is the story of Brendan Brogan.
Product Description: A marriage and a family reach breaking point on an annual holiday in the loveliest hotel in Ireland. Dermot Bolger is one of the leading figures on the Irish literary scene. Very influential, amazingly energetic and prolific, popular and extremely well respected...read more
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9780002261524 | Harpercollins, November 1, 2000, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: A marriage and a family reach breaking point on an annual holiday in the loveliest hotel in Ireland.
Product Description: The first collection of plays from one of Ireland's most accomplished contemporary writersThis volume contains four plays: The Lament for Arthur Cleary: "Theatrically rich and socially powerful, it takes on the lineaments of an epic voyage, a voyage into the dark heart of a city where Irish theatre has seldom been before" (Irish Times); In High Germany: "Thoughtful, comic, sad and provocative, this monologue of a lost and altered heritage ⦠These two plays [In High Germany and The Holy Ground] are cogent manifestations of a changing Irish world" (Irish Times); The Holy Ground: "A tour de force...read more
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9780413745002 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, October 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The first collection of plays from one of Ireland's most accomplished contemporary writersThis volume contains four plays: The Lament for Arthur Cleary: "Theatrically rich and socially powerful, it takes on the lineaments of an epic voyage, a voyage into the dark heart of a city where Irish theatre has seldom been before" (Irish Times); In High Germany: "Thoughtful, comic, sad and provocative, this monologue of a lost and altered heritage ⦠These two plays [In High Germany and The Holy Ground] are cogent manifestations of a changing Irish world" (Irish Times); The Holy Ground: "A tour de force.
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9780413738806 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, August 1, 2000, cover price $13.95
Product Description: `Taking My Letters Back' combines a selection of the best of Bolger's early work (often in freshly worked versions), along with two dozen poems written throughout the `90s which were never before been collected in book form. Combining poetry of lament and celebration, ghost voices and love poems, `Taking My Letters Back' completes the missing piece in that tapestry which has been the work of one of Ireland's most distinctive writers of the late 20th century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781874597988 | New Island Books, June 1, 1999, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: `Taking My Letters Back' combines a selection of the best of Bolger's early work (often in freshly worked versions), along with two dozen poems written throughout the `90s which were never before been collected in book form.
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9781851860890 | New Island Books, May 1, 1999, cover price $14.95
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