Monthly Archives: April 2009

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ShortList for Irish Book Awards 2009

Your vote counts in Book Awards 2009

A new category for crime fiction is included in the shortlists, writes Madeleine Keane

 

Sunday April 05 2009

An eclectic group of writers drank coffee and exchanged literary gossip in the sunshine on Tuesday as the shortlists for the Irish Book Awards 2009 were rolled out. Sebastian Barry, Professor Ivor Browne, Cecelia Ahern, Paul Howard (Ross O’Carroll- Kelly) and Hugo Hamilton among others joined publishers, agents and editors for the launch of the fourth year of The Irish Book Awards, which honour Irish writers across the publishing spectrum.

It is the only industry-wide event of its kind, and this year there are 10 categories, with a new award for crime fiction. Another new feature for 09 is the inclusion of you, the readers. For the first time, the overall winners in nine of the 10 categories will be chosen by a public vote, in conjunction with the Irish Literary Academy. The winners will be announced at a gala ceremony at the Mansion House on Wednesday, May 6, 2009.

The full shortlists for the 10 categories in the Irish Book Awards 2009 are as follows:

The Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year:

The Truth Commissioner by David Park (Bloomsbury)

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)

Netherland by Joseph O’Neill (Harper Perennial)

Disguise by Hugo Hamilton (Fourth Estate)

RTE Radio 1′s The Tubridy Show Listeners’ Choice Award:

Netherland by Joseph O’Neill (HarperPerennial)

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury)

Testimony by Anita Shreve (Little, Brown)

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller (Canongate)

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Atlantic Books)

The Ireland AM Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year:

The Likeness by Tana French (Hachette Ireland)

Undertow by Arlene Hunt (Hachette Ireland)

Blood Runs Cold by Alex Barclay (Harper Collins)

Gallows Lane by Brian McGilloway (Pan MacMillan)

The Argosy Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year:

Ivor Browne: Music and Madness by Ivor Browne (Cork University Press)

Stepping Stones by Seamus Heaney and Dennis O’Driscoll (Faber & Faber)

The Builders by Frank McDonald and Kathy Sheridan (Penguin)

Bake by Rachel Allen (Collins)

Eason Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year:

The Gift by Cecelia Ahern (HarperCollins)

Mr S and the Secrets of Andorra‘s Box by Ross O’Carroll-Kelly (Penguin Ireland)

This Charming Man by Marian Keyes (Michael Joseph)

Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy (Orion)

Lessons in Heartbreak by Cathy Kelly (Harper Collins)

Forgive and Forget by Patricia Scanlan (Transworld Ireland)

International Education Services Irish Newcomer of the Year:

The Poison Throne by Celine Kiernan (O’Brien Press)

Bad Day in Blackrock by Kevin Power (Lilliput)

Confessions of a Fallen Angel by Ronan O’Brien (Hachette Ireland)

Off the Beaten Track by Kathryn Thomas (Poolbeg)

Best Irish Published Book of the Year:

Crime Wars by Paul Williams (Merlin)

The Parish by Alice Taylor (Brandon)

Patrick Hillery — The Official Biography by John Walsh (New Island)

Traditional Boats of Ireland by Criostoir MacCarthaigh (Collins Press)

Energise Sport Irish Sports Book of the Year:

Better than Sex: My Autobiography by Mick Fitzgerald and Donn McClean (Highdown)

Crashed and Byrned: The Greatest Racing Driver You Never Saw by Tommy Byrne and Mark Hughes (Icon Books)

Chairman of the Boards by Eamon Coughlan and George Kimball (Red Rock Press)

Ronan O’Gara: My Autobiography by Ronan O’Gara (Transworld Ireland)

The Dublin Airport Authority Irish Children’s Book of the Year:

Junior

Her Mother’s Face by Roddy Doyle (Scholastic)

Before You Sleep by Benji Bennett (Adams Printing Press)

Highway Robbery by Kate Thompson (Bodley Head)

The Great Paper Caper by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins Children’s)

Senior

The Magician by Michael Scott (Doubleday Children’s)

Playing with Fire by Derek Landy (HarperCollins)

Alice and Megan Forever by Judi Curtin (O’Brien Press)

The Poison Throne by Celine Kiernan (O’Brien Press)

Lifetime Achievement in Irish Literature:

The winner of this award will be decided by the Irish Literary Academy.

THE shortlist for the Irish Book Awards 2009 emerged from a ballot of more than 300 Irish booksellers and local libraries. With the full support of the Irish Booksellers Association, a ballot paper of submitted titles was created and sent to all bookshops nationwide in October 2008.

Members of the public are invited to vote for their favourite books in each category on the Irish Book Awards website www. irishbookawards.ie or via RTE Radio 1′s The Tubridy Show website and TV3‘s Ireland AM website. Every vote cast affords the voter entry to a draw to win up to €750 worth of National Book Tokens.

In-store promotions will begin this weekend and a FREE Irish Book Awards 2009 magazine will be available with features about the nominated authors in each category.

We wish all shortlisted nominees the best of luck.

- Madeleine Keane

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Impac Awards 2009

Impac Awards 2009

 
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Ravel by Jean Echenoz
Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Archivist’s Story by Travis Holland
Burnt Out Town by Roy Jacobsen
Indian Clerk by David Leavitt 
Animals People by Indra Sinha
Man Gone Done by Michael Thomas
  
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The Winner Stands Alone by Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho’s The Winner Stands Alone by Annette Dunlea (Book Review)

This hardback The Winner Stands Alone is written by Paulo Coelho, the author who wrote The Alchemist. Its ISBN is 0007306067 and it is published by Harper Collins. The book is set during the Cannes Festival and all action takes place within 24 hours. Coelho explores the world of fashion and cinema and discovers it is shallow and immoral. The theme is Igor’s obsession with his ex-wife Ewa who is terrified of him. He decides to go on a killing spree to win his wife back. The story chronicles the serial murders and the characters he encounters on his journey. Igor justification is all is fair in love. He will do anything to win back his ex wife. Coelho is lamenting the lost values of our society that can not be reclaimed. It is well written and an easy to read thriller. Reviewed by Annette Dunlea author of The Honey Trap and Always and Forever

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Assegai by Wilbur Smith

Book Review of Wilbur Smith’s Assegai by Annette Dunlea
Assegai Wilbur Smith’s new hardback is published by Macmillan. The novel’s ISBN is 0230529208. It has all the classic ingredients for great novels a great hero, romance, a bit of espionage and the cunning enemy. Set in 1913 Leon Courtney a professional hunter turned guide to the rich of Europe on safaris in East Africa. Leon falls in love with one of his rich client’s wife Eva Von Wellberg. The situation is made more complicated when he discovers her husband the Count who is a German arms manufacturer is involved in a plot against Britain. Leon must foil this plot and protect his lover. In the course of the novel Leon uncovers the truth behind the plot. This is once again a great novel from the master story teller Wilbur Smith.
Reviewed by Annette Dunlea author of Always and Forever and The Honey Trap

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Sex and champagne by Amanda Bunker

Book Review of Champagne Kisses by Annette Dunlea

                Champagne Kisses is a paperback written by Amanda Bunker. It is published by Transworld Ireland and its ISBN is 1848270011. It is a sexy novel written   by an Irish tabloid columnist. It centres around Eva, Maddie and Parker three rich beautiful people in Dublin. It is sexy chic lit. Amanda has reinvented the bonking novels of the 1980s. It has reached number one in the Irish charts and it just proves sex sells.

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My Blog of the Week 27/4/09

IS A Common Place Blog : http://dgmyers.blogspot.com/2009/03/five-best-of-irish-fiction.html

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Five best of Irish fiction

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, Stefan Beck has offered, over at the New Criterion’s Arma Virumque blog, a “Five Best of Irish Lit” (no Angela’s Ashes, he promises) in the style of the Wall Street Journal’s “Five Best” format:

(1) James Joyce, Dubliners.
(2) Flann O‘Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds.
(3) Frank O‘Connor’s 1952 story “First Confession.”
(4) J. P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man.
(5) Roddy Doyle, The Commitments—by which he really means Alan Parker’s wonderful 1991 film based on the novel.

Assuming that such native Irish writers as Swift, Wilde, Shaw, and Beckett do not qualify, because they turned their backs on Ireland, here are my five (taking for granted the place of Joyce and O’Brien on any such list):

• Sean O’Faolain, Bird Alone (1936). Banned as obscene by the Irish Censorship Board, this novel tells the story of a staunch Fenian, looking back over his participation in the Troubles, now ostracized and living alone.

• Elizabeth Bowen, A World of Love (1954). Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899. Her best novel is The Death of the Heart (1938), but it is set in England; her best book about Ireland is her history of the family estate, Bowen’s Court (1942). This late novel, about the discovery of love letters from an unknown woman to a soldier who died in the First World War, is carefully plotted but simply told.

• J. G. Farrell, Troubles (1970). If Beck can include one ringer, so can I. Farrell was born in Liverpool, but his family was Irish. And this novel is set in a hotel on the South Wexford Coast. The Irish War of Independence looms in the background.

• Brian Moore, The Mangan Inheritance (1979). Moore was beaten to the punch by John Irving’s World According to Garp (1978), a novel on a similar subject, but this is the better book. A failed poet, descended from the famous Irish poet James Clarence Mangan, is left a fortune by his wife, dead in a car accident, making it possible for him to set off in quest of his bizarre family history.

• William Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault (2002). There is not much by Trevor that is not worth reading, but this novel is truly haunting. In 1921, the Anglo-Irish Gault family decides to leave Cork after the father shoots an arsonist, but nine-year-old Lucy does not want to leave—and then, through an astonishing chain of entirely credible incidents, she gets left behind.

Speaking of the Wall Street Journal’s “Five Best” series, by the way, Shelley‘s Heart (see below) was named one of the five best political novels, second only to The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope, a novelist who spent eighteen formative years in Ireland.

Posted by D. G. Myers at 1:52 PM

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Dreams of my father by Barack Obama (Book Review)

Book Review of Obama’s Dreams from my Father by Annette Dunlea Dreams of my Father: a Story of Race and Inheritance is written by Barack Obama. It is a paperback published by Three Rivers Press and its ISBN is 1400082773. This was written pre 1995, a candid and insightful memoir of the president’s childhood and early career. He discusses his maternal family who reared him and his struggle for identity as a black man in America. The absence of his father from his life left him lonely and isolated but he also received a legacy of a clever Kenyan to emulate. Obama ended up in Chicago as a community organiser. In the second half of the book after his father’s death he travels to Kenya to meet his extended family. He visits his father and grandfather’s graves. It contains deeply touching stories. It is an insightful book and a great read. Reviewed by Annette Dunlea author of Always and Forever and The Honey Trap

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Pictures of Cork Harbour in a New Book

The Coast of Cork  by Joleen Cronin.

                                A new hardback book is available in Irish shops and online from http://www.coastofcork.ie. It was written by Joleen Cronin a local photographer and sailor and published in conjunction with the Evening Echo newspaper. Joleen presents a unique collection of photographs of Cork harbour, land and people. It is a beautiful photography book for sailors or as a coffee table book.

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Found good book – kick ass adventure

Book Review of Gone Tomorrow by Annette Dunlea

                Gone Tomorrow is written by Lee Child. It is coming soon  in paperback by Bantam Press and its ISBN is 059306402X. This is the 13th Jack Reacher novel is narrated in the first person. It is fast paced, full of suspense and has a tight plot. It involves villians, a politician, a secret and a missing child. This best seller has a slow build up of suspense and an exciting climax. The novel begins in the midst of action with Reacher travelling on the subway. His attention is drawn to a woman Susan Marks whom he suspects is a suicide bomber but he is wrong. She blows her own head off in front of him and this troubles Reacher. He decides to investigate what drove Susan to this action and here lies the plot and ultimately ends with Reacher taking on the bad guys.  I highly recommend this action packed thriller.

Reviewed by Annette Dunlea author of The Honey Trap and Always and Forever

 

 

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Irish Fiction, Drama and Non-Fiction

FICTION

  • John Banville, Birchwood (Minerva/Norton, o/p); The Newton Letter (Minerva/Warner); The Book of Evidence (Mandarin/Warner); Ghosts (Mandarin/Random House); Athena (Minerva/Random House). Five novels from the most important Irish novelist since McGahern, including his 1989 Booker Prize nomination, a sleazy tale of a weird Dublin murder. 
  • Leland Bardwell, The House (Brandon Books, o/p/Longwood o/p); There We Have Been (Attic/InBook). Quirky, bleak prose, often dealing with domestic violence, male cruelty, drink and poverty; but funny too, in a black way. 
  • Samuel Beckett, Molloy/Malone Dies/The Unnamable (Calder/Riverrun). A wonderful trilogy of breakdown and glum humour. 
  • Brendan Behan, Borstal Boy (UK Arrow). Behan’s gutsy roman à clef about his early life in the IRA and in jail. 
  • Dermot Bolger, The Journey Home (Penguin). Dublin unforgettably imagined as both heaven and hell. A Second Life (Penguin) is an assured novel about a man who, miraculously given a second chance at life, sets out to find out the truth about his adoption. 
  • Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart (Penguin). Finely tuned tale of the anguish of unrequited love; generally rated as the masterpiece of this obliquely stylish writer. 
  • Clare Boylan, Concerning Virgins (Penguin, o/p). Thirteen short stories from an emerging star of contemporary fiction, her first book since the novel Nail on the Head (Hamish Hamilton, o/p/Viking, o/p). 
  • Emma Donoghue, Stir-fry (Penguin/Warner). Well-wrought love story from young Irish lesbian writer. 
  • Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Minerva/Penguin). Hilarious and deeply moving novel of Dublin family strife that won the Booker Prize in 1993. The earlier trilogy, The Commitments (Minerva/Random House), The Snapper (Minerva/Penguin), The Van (Minerva/Penguin), lighter and funnier, made Doyle’s reputation. 
  • Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent (Penguin/Oxford University Press). Best of the “Big House” books, in which Edgeworth displays a subversively subtle sympathy with her peasant narrator. Would have shocked her fellow aristos if they’d been able to figure it out. 
  • Anne Enright, The Portable Virgin (Minerva/Butterworth-Heinemann). Highly original stories of life on the outside. 
  • Bartholomew Gill, The Death of a Joyce Scholar. Irish cop Peter McGarr is looking for the priced possession of Dublin’s most eminent Joyce scholar (stabbed near Glasnevin Cemetry) – a hat originally worn by James Joyce. 
  • Hugo Hamilton, The Love Test (UK Faber). Irish-German novelist’s thriller set on both sides of the Berlin Wall, before and after its fall, combines excitement with a tender portrait of a disintegrating marriage. Dublin Where the Palm Trees Grow (UK Faber) is a fine collection of stories set with equal assurance in Berlin and middle-class Dublin. 
  • Dermot Healy, A Goat’s Song (Flamingo/Penguin). Dark and deep novel which convincingly weaves a study of obsessive love into a fresh view of the Northern conflict. 
  • Aidan Higgins, Asylum and Other Stories (Calder/Riverrun, o/p); Langrishe, Go Down (Minerva/Riverrun, o/p); Lions of the Grunewald (UK Minerva). The most European of Irish writers, whose later works play with language in a mordantly humorous and deeply personal way. 
  • Desmond Hogan, The Ikon Maker (Faber/George Brazilier, o/p). Impressive, impressionistic first novel from one of Ireland’s most lyrical prose writers, about angst-ridden adolescence in the 1970s, before Ireland was hip. A Farewell to Prague (UK Faber) is an intense, episodic, autobiographical novel that wanders lonely through the new Europe. 
  • Neil Jordan, Night in Tunisia (Vintage/Random House). Film director Jordan first made his name with this impressive collection, which prefigures treatments and themes of his films. His most recent novel, Sunrise with Sea Monster (UK Vintage), is a delicate, powerful study in love and betrayal set in neutral Ireland during World War II. 
  • James Joyce, Dubliners (Penguin); Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin); Ulysses (Penguin/Random House); Finnegan’s Wake (Faber/Penguin). No novel written in English this century can match the linguistic verve of Ulysses, Joyce’s monumental evocation of 24 hours in the life of Dublin. From the time of its completion until shortly before his death – a period of sixteen years – he laboured at Finnegan’s Wake, a dream-language recapitulation of the cycles of world history. Though indigestible as a whole, it contains passages of incomparable lyricism and wit – try the “Anna Livia Plurabelle” section, and you could be hooked. 
  • Molly Keane, Good Behaviour (Abacus/Knopf, o/p). Highly successful comic reworking of the “Big House” novel. 
  • Benedict Kiely, God’s Own Country: Selected Stories 1963-1993 (UK Minerva). A good introduction to the quirky fiction of a veteran novelist and travel writer. 
  • Mary Lavin, In a Café (UK Country House). New collection of previously published stories by one of the great short-story writers, in the Chekhov tradition. Earlier books include The House in the Clew (Joseph, o/p/Viking, o/p) and Stories (Constable/Viking, o/p). 
  • Bernard MacLaverty, Cal (Penguin/Norton); Lamb (UK Penguin). Both novels of love beset by crisis; the first deals with an unwilling IRA man and the widow of one of his victims. Lamb is the disturbing tale of a Christian Brother who absconds from a borstal with a young boy. 
  • Eugene McCabe, Death and Nightingales (UK Minerva). Powerfully relevant novel of love, land and violence, set in late-nineteenth-century Ireland. 
  • Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy (Picador/Doubleday); The Dead School (Pan/Dell). Scary, disturbing, but funny tales of Irish small-town life. 
  • John McGahern, The Dark (Faber/Viking, o/p); The Barracks (UK Faber); Amongst Women (Faber/Penguin); Collected Stories (Faber/Random House). The Barracks is classic McGahern; stark, murderous and not a spare adjective in sight. Amongst Women is an excellent tale of an old Republican and the oppression of rural and family life. 
  • Eoin McNamee, Resurrection Man (Picador/Warner). Beautifully written psychological thriller set in war-torn Belfast. 
  • Deirdre Madden, Hidden Symptoms (Faber/Grove-Atlantic, o/p); The Birds of the Innocent Wood (Faber, o/p in the US); Remembering Light and Stone (Faber); and Nothing is Black ( Faber). Evocatively grim novels of life in the North. 
  • Aidan Mathews, Lipstick on the Host (Minerva/Harcourt Brace). Delicate stories of breathtaking skill. 
  • Brian Moore, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (Paladin/Little Brown). Moore’s early novels are rooted in the landscape of his native Belfast; this was his first, a poignant tale of emotional blight and the possibilities of late redemption by love. 
  • Danny Morrison, The Wrong Man. Political thriller, bleak, densely plotted by a former public affairs officer for S.F. 
  • Mary Morrissy, A Lazy Eye (Vintage/Simon & Schuster); Mother of Pearl (Cape/Simon & Schuster). Impressive stories and a novel by rising star in the new generation of writers. 
  • Christopher Nolan, Under the Eye of the Clock (Weidenfeld, o/p/St Martin’s, o/p). Extraordinary and explosive fiction debut; largely autobiographical story of a handicapped boy’s celebration of the power of language. 
  • Edna O’Brien, Johnnie I Hardly Knew You (Weidenfeld/Avon Books, o/p); The Country Girls (Penguin/NAL-Dutton). Sensitively wrought novels from a top-class writer sometimes accused, unjustly, of wavering too much towards Mills and Boon. 
  • Flann O’Brien, The Third Policeman (Penguin/NAL-Dutton). O’Brien’s masterpiece of the ominously absurd and fiendishly humorous. At Swim-Two-Birds (Penguin/NAL-Dutton) is a complicated and hilarious blend of Gaelic fable and surrealism; essential reading. Also see “Other Non-Fiction”, p.623, under Myles na Gopaleen. 
  • Frank O’Connor, Guests of the Nation (US Dufour). The best Irish political fiction this century. 
  • Joseph O’Connor, True Believers (Flamingo/Trafalgar, o/p); Cowboys and Indians (Flamingo/Trafalgar, o/p). Life on the peripheries in London and Dublin: love and loss, madness and redemption; Desperadoes (Flamingo) is a love story stretching from 1950s’ Dublin to modern Nicaragua. 
  • Peadar O’Donnell, Islanders (Mercier/Dufour). Evocative, mesmerizing prose from important Republican figure. 
  • Julia O’Faolain, No Country for Young Men (US Carroll & Graf). Spanning four generations, this ambitious novel traces the personal repercussions of the civil war. 
  • Seán Ó Faoláin, Bird Alone (US Oxford University Press, o/p); Collected Stories (Constable/Little Brown). A master of the short-story form and the juiciness of rural dialect. 
  • Liam O’Flaherty, The Pedlar’s Revenge and Other Stories (Wolfhound/Dufour). Best of the postwar generation of former IRA men turned writers. 
  • Timothy O’Grady, Motherland; an allegorical tale of Ireland, its past, and its present political situation. The complex plot revolves around an unnamed and oddly childlike middle-aged narrator and his search for his vanished mother. Along the way, the narrator is assisted by his own clairvoyant powers, a long-lost grandfather, and an ancient, hand-written family history that seems to contain clues to his mother’s disappearance. Structured like a heroic myth, the novel describes a long and wandering journey through an Ireland occupied by a nameless military presence and contains dialogue between the petulant and pedantic narrator and the sage discourse of the mysterious and prophetic progenitor. Many apparently unrelated threads are woven together in the novel’s conclusion to solve the mystery, revealing the narrator’s true identity, the role of his grandfather, the fate of his missing mother, and the final interlocking pieces that comprise the story. A must!
  • Glenn Patterson, Burning Your Own (UK Minerva). Distinctive young Northern writer gives Protestant child’s-eye view of late 1960s’ Northern Ireland just about to explode. 
  • E.O. Somerville and (Violet) Martin Ross, Some Recollections and Further Experiences of an Irish RM (UK Dent). The needle pushes the begorra factor a little too heavily here and there, but Somerville and Ross write with witty flair and are very significant for what they reveal, accidentally, about a dying class. 
  • James Stephens, The Crock of Gold (US Irish Books & Media); The Charwoman’s Daughter (Gill & Macmillan, o/p/North Books). Two fabulous masterpieces from the country’s most underrated genius. 
  • Bram Stoker, Dracula (Penguin/Oxford University Press). Stoker woke up after a nightmare brought on by a hefty lobster supper, and proceeded to write his way into the nightmares of the twentieth century. 
  • Francis Stuart, Redemption and The Pillar of Cloud (both New Island Books/Flat Iron, o/p); Black List Section H (Lilliput/Irish Book Centre, o/p). Once a protégé of Yeats, Stuart has consistently maintained a stance of opposition, in his life and his art. Black List, his masterpiece, depicts the life of an Irishman in wartime Germany. 
  • Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (Penguin/Oxford University Press); The Tale of a Tub and Other Stories (Oxford University Press). Surrealism and satire from the only writer in the English language with as sharp a pen as Voltaire. 
  • Colm Tóibín, The South (Picador/Viking, o/p). A woman turns her back on Ireland for Spain and returns thirty years later to resolve her life, and to die. The Heather Blazing (Picador/Penguin) is a powerfully understated novel of personal and political loss. 
  • William Trevor, Stories (Penguin). Five of Trevor’s short-story collections in one volume, revealing more about Ireland than many a turgid sociological thesis. Often desperately moving, Trevor is one of the true giants of Irish fiction. Reading Turgenev (Penguin), a sensitive account of an unhappy marriage, was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize. 
  • Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin/Oxford University Press). Wilde’s exploration of moral schizophrenia. A debauched socialite maintains his youthful good looks, while his portrait in the attic slowly disintegrates into a vision of evil. 

    POETRY

  • Eavan Boland, The Journey (Carcanet, o/p). Thoughtful, spare and elegant verse from one of Ireland’s most significant poets. 
  • Pat Boran, The Unwound Clock (UK Dedalus). Wry insightful poems of contemporary Irish life. 
  • Austin Clarke, Selected Poems (Dolmen/Penguin). Clarke’s tender work evokes the same stark grandeur as the paintings of Jack Yeats. 
  • Denis Devlin, Collected Poems (US Wake Forest). Pre-eminent Irish poet of the 1930s, owing allegiance to a European modern tradition rather than the prevailing Yeatsian. 
  • Paul Durcan, A Snail in My Prime (Harvill/Penguin); O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor (UK Harvill); The Berlin Wall Café (Harvill/Dufour). Ireland’s most popular and readable poet. Berlin Wall is a lament for a broken marriage, recounted with agonizing honesty, dignity and, ultimately, forgiveness. 
  • Padraic Fiacc, Missa Terribilis (Blackstaff, o/p). Fiacc’s work is informed by the political and social tribalisms of Northern Ireland, and explores personal relationships in these contexts. 
  • Seamus Heaney, Death of a Naturalist (Faber); Selected Poems, Station Island and Seeing Things (Faber/Farrar Straus & Giroux). The most important Irish poet since Yeats. His poems are immediate and passionate, even when dealing with intellectual problems and radical social divisions. The Redress of Poetry (Faber, o/p/Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is an example of his energetic prose, consisting of the lectures he gave while Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1989 to 1994. 
  • Patrick Kavanagh, Collected Poems (Martin Brien & O’Keefe/Flat Iron). Joyfully mystic exploration of the rural countryside and the lives of its inhabitants by Ireland’s most popular poet. See also his autobiographical novel, Tarry Flynn (Penguin/Proscenium). 
  • Brendan Kennelly, Cromwell (Bloodaxe/Dufour). Speculative meditation on the role of the conqueror in Irish history. Poetry My Arse (UK Bloodaxe) is an epic poem which “sinks its teeth into the pants of poetry itself”. 
  • Thomas Kinsella, Poems: 1956-1973 (US Wake Forest). See also his translations from the Irish (see p.618, with Seán Ó Tuama) and his first-rate anthology The Oxford Book of Irish Verse (Oxford University Press). 
  • Shane MacGowan, Poguetry (Faber, o/p in the UK). Rock-solid debut by the former Pogues’ bardperson. Not for Yeats fans. 
  • Louis MacNeice, Collected Poems (Faber). Good chum of Auden, Spender and the rest of the “1930s’ generation”, Carrickfergus-born MacNeice achieves a fruitier texture and an even more detached tone. 
  • Derek Mahon, Selected Poems (Penguin); The Hudson Letter (Gallery/Wake Forest). One of the more considerable Irish poets, a Northern contemporary of Heaney. See also his Penguin (UK) Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry (ed. with Peter Fallon). 
  • Medbh McGuckian, Venus in the Rain (UK Gallery). Trawling the subconscious for their imagery, McGuckian’s sensuous and elusive poems are highly demanding and equally rewarding. 
  • Paula Meehan, The Man who was Marked by Winter (Gallery/Paul & Co). Memorable work, often concerned with women’s lives, issues of family, gender and sexuality. 
  • John Montague, Collected Poems (Gallery/Wake Forest). Terse poetry concerned with history, community and social decay. See also his anthology, The Faber Book of Irish Verse. 
  • Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin, The Rose Geranium (UK Gallery). A promising and constantly surprising young poet. Joint editor of Cyphers, a good Dublin literary magazine. 
  • Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Selected Poems (UK New Island Books) is in Irish and English. Haunting translations of her modern erotic verse by the fine poet Michael Hartnett are included in Raven Introductions 3 (UK Colin Smythe) and in Frank Ormsby’s anthology (see below). 
  • Frank Ormsby, (ed), The Long Embrace: Twentieth Century Irish Love Poems (Blackstaff, o/p/Faber, o/p). Excellent anthology with major chunks from the work of almost every important twentieth-century Irish poet from Yeats to the present day. See also his Poets from the North of Ireland anthology (Blackstaff/Dufour). 
  • Tom Paulin, Fivemiletown and The Strange Museum (Faber, o/p in the US); Walking a Line (Faber). Often called “dry” both in praise and accusation, Paulin’s work reverberates with thoughtful political commitment and a sophisticated irony. 
  • Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Dover). The great comedian achieves his greatest success, in tragedy. 
  • William Butler Yeats, The Poems (Papermac/Cassel). They’re all here, poems of rhapsody, love, revolution and eventual rage at a disconnected and failed Ireland “fumbling in the greasy till.” 

     

    DRAMA

  • Samuel Beckett, Complete Dramatic Works (UK Faber); Collected Shorter Plays and Waiting for Godot (Faber/Grove-Atlantic). Bleak hilarity from the laureate of the void. All essential for swanning around Dublin coffee shops. 
  • Brendan Behan, The Complete Plays (Eyre Methuen/Grove-Atlantic). Flashes of brilliance from a writer destroyed by alcoholism. His The Quare Fellow takes up where Wilde’s Ballad of Reading Gaol leaves off. 
  • George Farquhar, The Recruiting Officer (Oxford University Press). The usual helping of cross-dressing and mistaken identity, yet this goes beyond the implications of most restoration comedy, even flirting with feminism before finally marrying everyone off in the last scene. 
  • Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa (Faber). Family drama by Derry playwright examines the coexistence of Catholicism and paganism in Irish society, and the tension between them. Plays (UK Faber) contains six of his greatest works; also available is Selected Plays (US Catholic University of America Press). 
  • Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer (Nick Hern Books/Norton). Sparky dialogue, with a more English sheen than Farquhar. Included in the same volume is Goldsmith’s novel The Vicar of Wakefield (Penguin/Oxford University Press), an affecting celebration of simple virtue. 
  • Augusta, Lady Gregory, Collected Plays (Colin Smythe/Dufour). The Anglo-Irish writer who understood most about the cadences of the Irish language. This gives not only her translations, but her original drama, an authenticity lacking in the work of others. 
  • Frank McGuinness Plays (UK Faber). Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching towards the Somme and four other major works by one of Ireland’s most important playwrights. 
  • Tom Murphy, Famine, The Patriot Game, The Blue Macushla and The Gigli Concert (Methuen/Heineman). Along with Friel and McGuinness, Murphy is one of the three outstanding contemporary Irish playwrights. 
  • Sean O’Casey, Three Plays (Pan/St Martin’s). Contains his powerful Dublin trilogy, Juno and the Paycock, Shadow of a Gunman and The Plough and the Stars, set against the backdrop of the civil war. 
  • John Millington Synge, The Complete Plays (Eyre Methuen/Random House). Lots of begorras and mavourneens and other dialogue kindly invented for the Irish peasantry by Synge; but The Playboy of the Western World is a brilliant and unique work, greeted in Dublin by riots, threats and moral outrage. 
  • Oscar Wilde, Complete Works (HarperCollins). Bittersweet satire, subversive one-liners and profound existentialist philosophy all masquerading as well-made, drawing-room farce. 
  • William Butler Yeats, Collected Plays (Papermac/Simon & Schuster). Long-haired hunky Celts and gorgeous princesses, as Yeats inaugurates the Finian’s Rainbow school of Irish History. Stick to the poems. 

     

    OTHER NON-FICTION

  • A.M. Brady and Brian Cleeve, (eds), Biographical Dictionary of Irish Writers (Lilliput, o/p/St Martin’s Press, o/p). Succinct entries on all the greats, better used as a magical mystery tour through the lost byways of Irish literature. 
  • Seamus Deane, Short History of Irish Literature (Hutchinson, o/p/University of Notre Dame Press, o/p). Deane brings a poet’s sensitivity to a massive and sometimes unwieldy tradition, with skill and a profound sense of sociopolitical context. 
  • Katie Donovan & Brendan Kennelly, (eds) Dublines (Bloodaxe/Dufour). A lively anthology of Dublin writing – history, fiction, poetry and song – compiled by two poets of different generations. 
  • Richard Ellmann, James Joyce (Oxford University Press); Oscar Wilde (Penguin/Random House). Ellman’s Joyce is a major literary work in itself, a massive and brilliant book. His Oscar Wilde is at least its equal, an eloquent corrective to the image of Wilde as an intellectual mayfly. 
  • Field Day Pamphlets, especially: Seamus Deane, Heroic Styles: The Tradition of an Idea (o/p); Declan Kiberd, Anglo-Irish Attitudes (o/p); Michael Farrell, Apparatus of Repression in Ireland (o/p); and Seamus Heaney, An Open Letter (o/p). Other pamphlets by Robert McCartney (a Northern Unionist lawyer), Tom Paulin and other leading lights of the Irish cultural scene. The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (Field Day/Norton; general editor Seamus Deane) is a book to visit rather than buy: running to more than 4000 pages (in three volumes), and covering everything from early Celtic literature to the present, it costs £150. This insanely ambitious project aims to examine the nature of Irish writing – emphatically not just literature: as well as plays, poems and novels, it includes political speeches, pamphlets, analyses and essays; a fine record of a primarily literary culture. 
  • Myles na Gopaleen, (aka Flann O’Brien), The Best of Myles (UK Paladin). Priceless extracts from a daily humorous newspaper column by O’Brien’s alter ego. 
  • Michael Holroyd, The Search for Love; The Pursuit of Power; The Lure of Fantasy, 1918-50 (Penguin/Random House). Holroyd’s three-part biography of Shaw has been unfairly slammed by the critics, but is actually a pretty successful stab at understanding one of the most difficult and complex authors of the whole Anglo-Irish canon. 
  • Joss Lynam, (ed.), Best Irish Walks (Moorland/NTC). Seventy-six walks through some of the most beautiful and remote parts of the country. 
  • Brenda Maddox, Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce (Minerva/Fawcett). Eminently readable story of the funny, irreverent and formidable Nora Barnacle and her life with James Joyce – an interesting complement to Ellmann’s Joyce biography. 
  • Sally and John McKenna, Bridgestone Food Guide (UK Estragon). The best in an almost non-existent field of Irish food writing. The same authors’ smaller guides, to restaurants and places to stay, are also popular. 
  • T. Augustine Martin, Anglo-Irish Literature (Irish Department of Foreign Affairs/Irish Books & Media, o/p). Readable scholarship and precise insight from the country’s foremost Yeatsian scholar. 
  • Joseph O’Connor, The Secret World of the Irish Male (Minerva/Heineman). Best-selling collection of the novelist’s newspaper columns; frequently very funny. 
  • Tim Robinson, The Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage (Penguin/Viking, o/p). Treats the largest of the Aran Islands to a scrutiny of Proustian detail. The Stones of Aran: Labyrinth (Lilliput/Viking, o/p) completes the project, to form a uniquely challenging travel book. 
  • Colm Tóibín,The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe (Vintage/McKay). Novelist Tóibín uses his journalistic skills to find the old-time religion in Ireland and elsewhere. Bad Blood (UK Vintage) is a perceptive account of a journey along the line that divides Northern Ireland from the rest of the island. 
  • Brendan Walsh, Irish Cycling Guide (Moorland/Irish Books & Media). This is a grand tour of the country, in 36 stages, taking the roads with least traffic. 
  • John Waters, Jiving at the Crossroads (Blackstaff/Dufour). Curiously engaging autobiography which traces a fascination with Fianna Fáil politics through the formative years of a western youth in the 1970s and 1980s. 
  • Robert Welch (ed.), Oxford Companion to Irish Literature (Oxford University Press). This encyclopedic tour through who’s who and what they’ve written fills a long-standing need.

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    HISTORY AND POLITICS

    • John Ardagh, Ireland and the Irish: Portrait of a Changing Society (Penguin). Comprehensive and lively, this is an excellent anatomy of Irish society and its efforts to come to terms with the modern world.  
    • Jonathan Bardon, A History of Ulster (Blackstaff/Dufour). A comprehensive account from early settlements to the current Troubles. 
    • J.C. Beckett, The Making of Modern Ireland 1603-1923 (Faber/Trafalgar, o/p). Concise and elegant, this is probably the best introduction to the complexities of Irish history. 
    • David Beresford, Ten Men Dead (Grafton/Grove-Atlantic, o/p). Revelatory account of the 1981 hunger strike, using the prison correspondence as its basic material; a powerful refutation of the demonologies of the British press. 
    • Peter Beresford Ellis, Hell or Connaught and The Boyne Water (Blackstaff/Dufour). Vivid popular histories of Cromwell’s rampage and the pivotal Battle of the Boyne. 
    • Terence Brown, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-1985 (Fontana/Cornell University Press). Brilliantly perceptive survey of writers’ responses to the dog’s breakfast made of post-revolutionary Ireland by its leaders. 
    • Tim Pat Coogan, The Troubles: Ireland’s Ordeal 1966-1995 and the Search for Peace (UK Hutchinson). The former Irish Press editor’s popular-history writing has many followers. His earlier books on two icons of modern Ireland, Michael Collins (UK Arrow) and De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow (Arrow/HarperCollins), are essential reading. 
    • Liz Curtis, Ireland: the Propaganda War (Pluto/InBook). An unanswerable indictment of the truth-bending of the British media. 
    • Seán Duignan, One Spin on the Merry-go-round (UK Blackwater). Government press officer’s memoirs, well spiced with insider anecdote, of a turbulent period serving Taoiseach Albert Reynolds. 
    • Michael Farrell, Arming the Protestants: The Formation of the Ulster Special Constabulary and the Royal Ulster Constabulary, 1920-1927 (Pluto/Longwood, o/p). Farrell is a fine journalist and veteran of Northern Ireland’s civil rights campaigns. In Northern Ireland: The Orange State (Pluto/InBook) he argues, as the title implies, from a Republican standpoint; it’s an occasionally tendentious but extremely persuasive political account of the development of Northern Ireland. 
    • Garret FitzGerald, All in a Life (UK Gill & Macmillan). The first former Taoiseach to write his memoirs has produced an extraordinary book, characteristically frank, and full of detail on the working of government. 
    • Roy Foster, Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (Penguin). Superb and provocative new book, generally reckoned to be unrivalled in its scholarship and acuity, although it has been criticized for what some feel to be an excessive sympathy towards the Anglo-Irish. Not recommended for beginners. 
    • Gemma Hussey, Ireland Today: Anatomy of a Changing State (Penguin). A well-regarded and invaluable source of information on Ireland’s changing identity by this ex-government minister.  
    • Robert Kee, The Green Flag (Penguin; 3 vols). Scrupulous history of Irish Nationalism from the first plantations to the creation of the Free State. Masterful as narrative and as analysis. 
    • J.J. Lee, Ireland 1912-1985: Politics and Society (Cambridge University Press). Stunning new history, that is most provocative and readable in its lengthy final part devoted to the Ireland of today. 
    • F.S.L. Lyons, Ireland Since the Famine (UK Fontana). The most complete overview of recent Irish history; either iconoclastic or revisionist, depending on your point of view. 
    • T.W. Moody and F.X. Martin, The Course of Irish History (UK Mercier). Shows its age a bit, but still very good on early Irish history. 
    • Conor Cruise O’Brien, Ancestral Voices: Religion and Nationalism in Ireland (Poolbeg/University of Chicago Press); On the Eve of the Millennium: the Future of Democracy through an Age of Unreason (Free Press). Essays by the sometimes apocalyptic, always readable and stimulating commentator and former government minister. 
    • Cecil Woodham Smith, The Great Hunger (Penguin). Definitive, harrowing history of the Famine. 
    • A.T.Q. Stewart, The Narrow Ground (Gregg Revivals/Ashgate). A Unionist overview of the history of the North from 1609 to the 1960s, providing an essential background to the current situation. 
    • Kevin Toolis, Rebel Hearts: Journeys within the IRA’s Soul (UK Picador). Highly acclaimed and topical account of what makes the IRA tick by this journalist and screenwriter. 

       

      GAELIC TALES AND MUSIC

    • Brendan Behan, An Giall; in English, The Hostage (Eyre Methuen/Grove-Atlantic). Behan’s play is better in Irish, but still pretty good in English. The best work from an overrated writer. 
    • Breandán Breathnach, Folk Music and Dances of Ireland (Mercier/Dufour). All the diddley-eye you could want, and in one volume. 
    • Kevin Danaher, Folk Tales of the Irish Countryside (US David White Co, o/p). The best volume on fairy and folk tales, recorded with a civil servant’s meticulousness and a novelist’s literary style. 
    • Myles Dillon, (ed), Irish Sagas (Mercier, o/p/Irish Books & Media o/p). An excellent examination of Cúchulainn, Fionn Mac Cumhaill etc, in literary and socio-psychological terms. 
    • Seamus Heaney, Buile Suibhne; in English, Sweeney Astray (Faber o/p/Farrar, Straus & Giroux). A modern translation of the ancient Irish saga of the mad king Sweeney. 
    • Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies, edited by Seán Ó Faoláin (US Scholarly Resources). All the prettied-up tunes Moore stole from the harpers, along with lyrics of mind-numbingly perfect rhythm. Moore is an important historical figure, who expressed the Nationalism of the emerging middle class and brought revolution into the parlour. 
    • Pádraig Ó Conaire, Finest Stories (Poolbeg/Dufour). Ó Conaire’s dispassionate eye roams over the cruelties of peasant life. 
    • Tomás Ó Criomhtháin, (sometimes Thomas O’Crohan), An tOileánach; in English, The Islandman (Oxford University Press). Similar to Ó Conaire but non-fiction and, if possible, even more raw. 
    • Seán Ó Tuama and Thomas Kinsella, An Duanaire: Poems of the Dispossessed (Dolmen/University of Pennsylvania, o/p). Excellent translations of stark Irish-language poems on famine and death. See also Kinsella’s translation of one of the earliest sagas, the Táin Bó Cuailnge (Baile Átha Cliath, o/p/University of Pennsylvania, o/p). 
    • George Petrie, The Native Music of Ireland (Gregg International Books, o/p). One of the most important cultural documents in Irish history. 
    • Mark J. Prendergast, Irish Rock: History, Roots and Perspectives (The O’Brien Press, o/p). The only decent book on Irish rock music. 
    • Peig Sayers, An Old Woman’s Reflections (Oxford University Press). Unfortunately, Sayers’s complacent acceptance of her own powerlessness is still held up as an example to Irish schoolchildren. Still, in spite of itself, a frightening insight into the eradication of the Irish language through emigration, poverty and political failure. A funny deconstruction of the Sayers style is Flann O’Brien’s An Beál Bocht; in English, The Poor Mouth (Paladin/Dalkey Archive). 
    • William Butler Yeats, Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland (Colin Smythe/Random House). Yeats gets all misty eyed about an Ireland that never existed. 

       

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    Irish Fiction List

    Barry, Sebastian The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty
    Behan, Brendan
    Binchey, Dan Brulagh trilogy Neon Madonna Last Resorts Fireballs
    Binchy, Maeve A Circle of Friends; Dublin 4; Echoes
    Boylan, Clare 11 Edward Street
    Brennan, Maeve Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin
    Brown, Christy Down all the Days
    Carey, Lisa The Mermaids Singing
    Carroll, Brendan The Mammy
    Clement, Mickey Irish Princess
    Davis-Goff, Annabel The Dower House
    Deane, Seamus Reading in the Dark
    de la Mare, Walter
    Doyle, Roddy The Commitments A Star Called Henry, The Barrytown Trilogy; Paddy Clarke, ha, ha, ha; The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, Lord Dunsany
    Flanagan, Thomas The year of the French; The Tenants of Time
    Gill, Death of a Joyce Scholar Death of an Irish Seawolf, Peter McGarr mysteries
    Gordon, Mary The Other Side
    Haien, Jeannette The All of It
    Hassler, Jon A green Journey
    Healy, Dermot Goat Song
    Jones, Ann T. A Country Divorce
    Joyce, James Dubliners; Finnegans Wake; Ulysses
    Kavanaugh, H.T. Darby O’Gill & the Little People
    Keady , Walter Celibates and Other Lovers, Mary McGreevy
    Keane, John B. The Ram of God
    Keane, Molly Queen Lear; Good Behavior; Time after Time
    Keyes, Marian Watermelon and Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married
    Kiely, Benedict The State of Ireland
    Lash, Jennifer Blood Ties
    Lavin, Mary
    LeFanu, J. Sheridan
    Llywelyn, Morgan Finn MacCool; Pride of Lions,Bard; Brian Boru; Finn
    MacCool; Last Prince of Ireland; Red Branch, Grania
    McCabe, Patrick The Butcher Boy
    Maas, Peter Father and Son
    McCabe, Patrick Carn; The Dead School
    McCann, Colum Everything in the Country Mist
    McCourt Brothers
    McDermott, Alice Charming Billy
    McKinty, Adrian Orange Rhymes With Everything
    McNamee, Eoin The Last of Deeds & Love in History
    Martin, William The rising of the moon
    Moore, Brian
    O’Brien, Edna Down by the River; The High Road; Lantern Slides
    O’Casey, Sean
    O’Connor, Frank
    O’Flaherty, Liam The Black Soul and Famine
    O’Hanlon, Ardal Knick-Knack Paddy Whack:
    Phelan Tom In the Season of the Daisies
    Ridgeway, Keith The Long Falling
    Ripley, Alexandra Scarlett
    Roberts, Nora Born in Fire; Born in Ice; Born in Shame, Irish Thoroughbred and Irish Rose, Irish Rebel
    Ross, JoAnn A woman’s Heart
    Somerville, A.E. The Irish RM.
    Sweeney, Eamonn Waiting for the Healer
    Taylor, Alice Too School Through the Fields, Woman of the House
    Thoene, Brock and Bodie Only the River Runs Free
    Trevor, William After Rain; Fools of Fortune; Juliets Story; Nights at the Alexandra, Felicia’s Journey
    Uris, Leon Trinity, Redemption
    Watkins, Paul The Promise of Light
    Williams, Niall As It Is In Heaven Four Letters of Love

     

    The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories.
    The Exiles of Erin; 19th cent. Irish-American Fiction.
    Irish Magic: 4 Tales of Romance and Enchantment.
    Irish Tales of Terror.

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    Womens Writers Guild

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    What is the Guild? The IWWG, founded in 1976, is a network for the personal and professional empowerment of women through writing and open to all regardless of portfolio. As such, it has established a remarkable record of achievement in the publishing world, as well as in circles where lifelong learning and personal transformation are valued for their own sake. The Guild nurtures and supports holistic thinking by recognizing the logic of the heart–the ability to perceive the subtle interconnections between people, events and emotions- alongside conventional logic.
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    From the start, the Guild proposed the writing from personal experience as the beginning of this transformational process. Everyone in the Guild, sooner or later, cuts her teeth on the journal, the memoir, and the autobiography—like the scales on the piano—this daily practice does eventually make a “silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” It does develop writers into “writers.” More importantly however, from the Guild’s point of view, it furthers personal growth, transformation, and an authentic voice.

    -Hannelore Hahn

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    Ireland — Irish Literature

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    Website: http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland/

     

    HISTORY   LANGUAGE   PERIODICALS
    The Story of the Irish Race
    Irish History on the Web
    Ireland History in Maps
    The Archaeology of Ancient Ireland
    Irish Timeline and History
    Chronology of Irish History    		 Gaelic Dictionaries
    Gaelic Homepage
    Gaelic Languages – Links
    Pronunciation of Irish Gaelic
    Learn Gaelic with the Chieftain
    Gaeltalk
    Interactive Irish Lessons    		 The Irish Times
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    Irish Regional Newspapers
    Irish Emigrant
    Irish America Magazine
    Ireland of the Welcomes
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    My Blog of the Week 6/4/09

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    Friday, March 13, 2009

    James Purdy

    James Purdy, a favorite of many a University Book Store bookseller, but perhaps none more than our friend UsedBuyer, has passed away. We imagine his blog will have something to say about it soon.
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