Product Description: Some of the greatest writers in the English language were born in Dublin and every corner of the city has links with the written word, made explicit in this far-ranging collection. From Oscar Wilde to Rudyard Kipling, from Jonathan Swift to WB Yeats and Samuel Beckett: the city of Dublin has enchanted and inspired some great poetry...read more

Product Description: John Lennon (1940-80). His career after the break-up of the Beatles was much influenced by his marriage in 1969 to Yoko Ono. The couple became familiar figures in the international protest movement. "Give Peace a Chance" was recorded during a bed-in which they staged in a Montreal hotel in 1969...read more

A biography of John Lennon (1940-80), it focuses on his Irish roots and how this influenced his music, philosophy and attitude to life and politics. Of Lennon's solo work during the 1970s, the most successful album was the 1971 'Imagine'; it contained a veiled attack on Paul McCartney in 'How Do You Sleep?' His works reveal his talent as a writer.

For the first time, this collection of wartime columns treats Myles and his hectoring associates as the fictional characters Flann O'Brien intended them to be. Tracking the shocking disintegration of this bright young writer, philosopher and social commentator, the author chronicles Myles na gCopaleen's steady decline, as his sparkling wit darkens in an alcoholic tragedy of the mind.

Recounts the life of a quintessential Dubliner in a changing city, and shows how he and his experiences found their way into his son's works (view table of contents)

Product Description: This collection of writings comes from the neglected period of Oscar Wilde's output, before the great plays, when he was contributing for journals and editor of The Woman's World. Read together, these pieces illuminate the author's mode of life and thought, and that of his age.

Detailed notes accompany fifteen short stories that evoke the character, atmosphere, and people of Dublin at the turn of the century