Author: Eibhlís Ní Shúilleabháin
Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A strange and different way of life emerges as we discover an island loved and feared.
Letters from the Great Blasket
Author: Eibhlís Ní Shúilleabháin
Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A strange and different way of life emerges as we discover an island loved and feared.
Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A strange and different way of life emerges as we discover an island loved and feared.
Islands Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing
Author: Seamus Deane
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814799079
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1756
Book Description
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814799079
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1756
Book Description
Oileain
Author: David Walsh
Publisher: Pesda Press
ISBN: 9780953195695
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A wealth of information on the wildlife, stories and history of the islands.For those wishing to visit in small boats or kayaks there are details of:? Landings? Camping? Drinking water? Tidal informationOileain is a detailed guide to almost every Irish offshore island. The guide is comprehensive, describing over 300 islands, big and small, far out to sea and close in by the shore, inhabited and uninhabited. Oileain tells it as it is, rock by rock, good and bad, pleasant and otherwise. It concentrates on landings and access generally, then adds information on camping, drinking water, tides, history, climbing, birds, whales, dolphins, legends or anything else of interest.Oileain will, I hope, appeal to all who go to sea in small boats, divers and yachtsmen as well as kayakers. The sheer level of detail contained in Oileain must surely throw new light on places they thought they knew well. It is not a book about kayaking. It so happens that a practical way of getting to islands is by kayak, and that is how the author gets about. Scuba divers and RIBs get in close too. Yachtsmen get about better than most, and they too enjoy exploring intensively from a dinghy. With the increasing availability of ferries, boatless people will also enjoy Oileain. Offshore islands are the last wilderness in Ireland. Hillwaking is now so popular that there are few untrampled mainland hills. Ninety per cent of offshore islands are uninhabited outside of the first fortnight in August, and eighty per cent even then. You won't meet many other people, if any at all, out beyond an Irish surf line. It is a time of change though, and holiday homes are very much the coming thing in some offshore areas. Sea going will never stop being a great adventure. Therefore, offshore islands are still the preserve of the very few. Now is a golden era for exploration.
Publisher: Pesda Press
ISBN: 9780953195695
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A wealth of information on the wildlife, stories and history of the islands.For those wishing to visit in small boats or kayaks there are details of:? Landings? Camping? Drinking water? Tidal informationOileain is a detailed guide to almost every Irish offshore island. The guide is comprehensive, describing over 300 islands, big and small, far out to sea and close in by the shore, inhabited and uninhabited. Oileain tells it as it is, rock by rock, good and bad, pleasant and otherwise. It concentrates on landings and access generally, then adds information on camping, drinking water, tides, history, climbing, birds, whales, dolphins, legends or anything else of interest.Oileain will, I hope, appeal to all who go to sea in small boats, divers and yachtsmen as well as kayakers. The sheer level of detail contained in Oileain must surely throw new light on places they thought they knew well. It is not a book about kayaking. It so happens that a practical way of getting to islands is by kayak, and that is how the author gets about. Scuba divers and RIBs get in close too. Yachtsmen get about better than most, and they too enjoy exploring intensively from a dinghy. With the increasing availability of ferries, boatless people will also enjoy Oileain. Offshore islands are the last wilderness in Ireland. Hillwaking is now so popular that there are few untrampled mainland hills. Ninety per cent of offshore islands are uninhabited outside of the first fortnight in August, and eighty per cent even then. You won't meet many other people, if any at all, out beyond an Irish surf line. It is a time of change though, and holiday homes are very much the coming thing in some offshore areas. Sea going will never stop being a great adventure. Therefore, offshore islands are still the preserve of the very few. Now is a golden era for exploration.
Letters of Louis MacNeice
Author: Louis MacNeice
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571263461
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 711
Book Description
Louis MacNeice is increasingly recognised as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his work has been a defining influence upon a generation of Irish poets that includes Derek Mahon, Michael Longley and Paul Muldoon. The Selected Letters is indispensable as a resource for an understanding of the intellectual culture of the mid-twentieth century. A Classics don, poet, playwright and globetrotting BBC producer, the medley and blend of MacNeice's cultural influences seems exemplary in its modernity. He kept up a significant correspondence with E. R. Dodds, Anthony Blunt and T. S. Eliot, to name but three prominent figures of the time. During his time at the BBC MacNeice witnessed many key events, including the partition of India in 1947 and the independence of the Gold Coast from Britain in 1957, and these are recorded in two long sequences to his wife, the singer Hedli Anderson. His complex relationship to Ireland and to his Irish heritages speak resonantly to contemporary debates about Irish and Northern Irish cultural identity. Finally, the Letters will do much to broaden our understanding of a vivid and often enigmatic personality whose varied life and individual charisma have often resisted explanation.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571263461
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 711
Book Description
Louis MacNeice is increasingly recognised as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his work has been a defining influence upon a generation of Irish poets that includes Derek Mahon, Michael Longley and Paul Muldoon. The Selected Letters is indispensable as a resource for an understanding of the intellectual culture of the mid-twentieth century. A Classics don, poet, playwright and globetrotting BBC producer, the medley and blend of MacNeice's cultural influences seems exemplary in its modernity. He kept up a significant correspondence with E. R. Dodds, Anthony Blunt and T. S. Eliot, to name but three prominent figures of the time. During his time at the BBC MacNeice witnessed many key events, including the partition of India in 1947 and the independence of the Gold Coast from Britain in 1957, and these are recorded in two long sequences to his wife, the singer Hedli Anderson. His complex relationship to Ireland and to his Irish heritages speak resonantly to contemporary debates about Irish and Northern Irish cultural identity. Finally, the Letters will do much to broaden our understanding of a vivid and often enigmatic personality whose varied life and individual charisma have often resisted explanation.
Disturbed Ireland: letters written during the winter of 1880-81
Author: Bernard Henry Becker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Letters from the Kingdom of Kerry,
Author: Mary Jane Leadbeater Fisher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kerry (Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kerry (Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Disturbed Ireland. Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81
Author: Bernard Henry Becker
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338542478X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338542478X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats
Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198126840
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
Vol 2 edited by Warwick Gould, John Kelly, Deirdre Toomey Vol 3 edited by John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard Includes bibliographical references and index v 1 1865-1895 -- only held v 2 1896-1900 -- v 3 1901-1904.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198126840
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
Vol 2 edited by Warwick Gould, John Kelly, Deirdre Toomey Vol 3 edited by John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard Includes bibliographical references and index v 1 1865-1895 -- only held v 2 1896-1900 -- v 3 1901-1904.
The Islandman
Author: Tomás Ó Crohan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192812335
Category : Blasket Islands (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Tomas O'Crohan's sole purpose in writing The Islandman was, he wrote, "to set down the character of the people about me so that some record of us might live after us, for the like of us will never be seen again." This is an absorbing narrative of a now-vanished way of life, written by one who had known no other.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192812335
Category : Blasket Islands (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Tomas O'Crohan's sole purpose in writing The Islandman was, he wrote, "to set down the character of the people about me so that some record of us might live after us, for the like of us will never be seen again." This is an absorbing narrative of a now-vanished way of life, written by one who had known no other.