Product Description: Young Irelanders is an exciting anthology of short-stories that will open your eyes and soul to a new and continually evolving Irish literary scene, featuring a selection of Ireland's most gifted and daring contemporary short-fiction writers...read more

Looks at the history and structure of music, describes its therapeutic values, and recommends music for promoting earning, creativity, relaxation, and exercise

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Product Description: Jessica Casey is like no other girl and maybe like all the girls. Living in the real world is quite a task and she is constantly coming up against her own foibles as she tries to find where she fits in this mesmerizing world. Jessica Casey is the story of how the future is made, one mistake at a time...read more

Product Description: From 1968 to 1974, the Servites of Co Tyrone, Ireland published an annual literary review, first called Everyman and then Aquarius, which featured the best-known writers and personalities of the time addressing the arts, culture, politics, religion, and much more...read more

Product Description: The first critical survey of an unjustly neglected body of literature: the autobiographies and memoirs of writers of Irish birth or background who lived and worked in Britain between 1725 and the present day. It offers a stimulating and provocative introduction to the themes, preoccupations and narrative strategies of a diverse range of writers...read more

Product Description: This anthology traces the history of modern Irish literature from the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century to the early years of political independence. It covers 150 years, from the writings of Charlotte Brooke and Edmund Burke to those of Elizabeth Bowen and Louis MacNeice, and it shows how these writings continually challenge and renew the ways in which Ireland is imagined and defined...read more

The proximity of the province of Ulster to Scotland has resulted in a lively confluence of peoples, ideas and cultures for many centuries. This has been recorded in an abundance of texts that express Ulster's complex and dynamic relationship with Scotland. This anthology of Ulster-Scots writing charts the breadth and diversity of Scottish influences upon Ulster writing from the 17th century to the present day. For the first time, this is explored through literary prose, poetry and drama and a number of other important genres - philosophy, political and polemical texts, sermons, historiography,Ëœautobiographies and folk writings. The collection records how familiar and less well-known Ulster writers negotiate Scottish inheritances in their work. As well as introducing readers to significant works, the anthology offers fully annotated texts with biographical notices of each author. The book is aimed at all those interested in the cultural, linguistic and literary history of Ulster. It provides a timely contribution to debates on Ulster-Scots language, identity and heritage and celebrates a significant literary tradition.

Product Description: Encompassing the historic nine counties of Ulster, this new anthology charts the history, politics, and culture of a territory that is complex, contrary, and deeply resistant to definition.

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: Collection of Irish poetry by winners of the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award

Product Description: Published thirty years after the Dublin-Monaghan bombings, Later On is a unique book to which writers born or living in Monaghan have contributed short stories, essays, poems and excerpts from novels. It includes work from Eugene McCabe, Mary O`Donnell, Patrick MacEntee, Nell McCafferty (a frequent user of the café that was blown up), Pat McCabe, Frank McNally and Leland Bardwell...read more

Product Description: This book contains an interesting and diverse collection of essays that should appeal to the specialist and non-specialist alike. The authors analyze images of the Troubles in various media from theatre and film to murals and from to photography to literature.

Product Description: A showcase for new writers in Northern Ireland in prose, poetry and drama.

Compiles excerpts from the works of twelve Irish writers, from Jonathan Swift to James Joyce, providing various perspectives on the social life, customs, and history of Ireland.

An anthology of poems, essays and excerpts by Irish writers including Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, Seamus Heaney, James Joyce, and William Butler Yeats covers such topics as Ireland's people, geography, social history, customs, and language

Product Description: This anthology was created to celebrate the career of the distinguished critic Michael Allen of Queen's University Belfast. It includes brand new poems by some of Allen's past ""students""-Heaney, Muldoon, McGuckian, Carson, and Longley-a reminiscence by novelist Bernard McLaverty and fiction from William Wiser, as well as essays on contemporary Irish poetry and fiction, and American literature...read more

Product Description: Reggie Nadelson, an American journalist and documentary filmmaker living in London, has created a fascinating character for her first mystery: Artie Cohen, a New York cop who was Artemy Maximovich Otalsky before he left Russia as a teenager...read more

With five Nobel Prize-winners, seven Pulitzer Prize-winners and two Booker Prize-winning novelists, modern Irish writing has contributed something special and permanent to our understanding of the twentieth century. Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century provides a useful, comprehensive and pleasurable introduction to modern Irish literature in a single volume.Organized chronologically by decade, this anthology provides the reader with a unique sense of the development and richness of Irish writing and of the society it reflected.It embraces all forms of writing, not only the major forms of drama, fiction and verse, but such material as travel writing, personal memoirs, journalism, interviews and radio plays, to offer the reader a complete and wonderfully varied sense of Ireland's contribution our literary heritage.David Pierce has selected major literary figures as well as neglected ones, and includes many writers from the Irish diaspora. The range of material is enormous, and ensures that work that is inaccessible or out of print is now easily available.The book is a delightful compilation, including many well known pieces and captivating "discoveries," which anyone interested in literature will long enjoy browsing and dipping into. (view table of contents)

Complemented by helpful travel information and advice, an evocative anthology of the best Irish writing features more than sixty selections by such authors as James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Frank McCourt, Jonathan Swift, Nuala O'Faolain, William Trevor, Roddy Doyle, and other notables. Original. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)