Product Description: Two of Ireland's most outspoken critics and cultural commentators, Edna Longley from the North and Declan Kiberd from the South, put forward views on the contrasting directions in which the two societies on the island are moving. Professor Longley asks whether Northerners will increasingly identify with Northern Ireland as a shared point of reference...read more

The 1916 Easter Rebellion unleashed events that would lead to Irish independence in 1921. Soon after the rebellion, Ireland's leading newspaper, the Weekly Irish Times, published this handbook containing eyewitness reporting on the revolt and its aftermath, and on the Irish rebels and British forces at the center of the conflict.

Product Description: Just as Ireland has produced many brilliant writers in the past century, so these writers have produced a new Ireland. In a book unprecedented in its scope and approach, Declan Kiberd offers a vivid account of the personalities and texts, English and Irish alike, that reinvented the country after centuries of colonialism...read more

Product Description: Ellmann's sensitivity to what it meant to be an artist shaped his work from the outset: "The life of an artist ... differs from the lives of other persons in that its events are becoming artistic sources even as they command his present attention...read more