Product Description: The second of the three volumes, roughly spans the middle decades of the nineteenth century, a period dominated by the enormity of the Great Famine. Its terror is recorded in first-hand accounts and in the powerless yet forceful reactions which this cataclysmic event engendered in such writers as John Mitchel (who in his Jail Journal pits the self against the state)...read more

Product Description: Irish Literature Eighteenth Century illustrates not only the impressive achievement of the great writers-Swift, Berkeley, Burke, Goldsmith and Sheridan-but also shows the varied accomplishment of others, providing unexpected, entertaining examples from the pens of the less well known...read more

Product Description: That Mangan is Ireland's foremost Romantic poet is by now a commonplace. The poetry of this self-proscribed 'Out-and-Outer' may have contributed to the picture of an eccentric genius writhing in romantic agony, far removed from the daily throng...read more

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Product Description: James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), the greatest Irish poet before Yeats, was for a long time both famous and unknown. While legends about him prospered after his death, his works remained largely unread. Only recently have his poems been collected by an international team of scholars and published by Irish Academic Press...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Mangan's prose comes in a variety of forms: essays, stories, apologies, biographical sketches, comic articles, introductions to his poems and translations, a handful of surviving letters, and an unfinished autobiography. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This is Peter van de Kamp's first poetry collection. The poems are short, dramatic, imagistic, capturing fleeting emotions and feelings, like brief musical chords-nocturnes and variations. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: If you want to understand the invisible, look careful at the visible. The Talmud A 'bird's eye' or rather a distant spacecraft's view of the solar system reveals an assembly of planets, terrestrial, giant and Pluto. The orbital motions are in the same sense, counter clockwise, as seen from the north of the general flattened space within which the planetary motions are confined...read more