Author: Richard Ellmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195016637
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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An interpretation of Joyce's masterpiece which illuminates its philosophical and literary significance.
Author: Bob Harley
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475932219
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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Bob Harley is a typical 1950's suburban teenage boy when his father's job is transferred to Holland and Bob's family moves to Europe. He finds himself in a strange new world when he is sent to boarding school in Ireland, where his mother grew up. Bob is at first confused by the English spoken by the people around him. Accustomed to comfort, his new school has bad food and no heat. Even worse, the teachers use a bamboo cane on students as punishment. One of them even seems so nuts that the other boys say he's a Martian. Bob only wants to go home. Then Bob falls in with a group of friends who prod him out of some of his misery. He discovers the teacher he finds the most frightening (the one assigned to cane the boys) is the one he likes the best. He and his friends create hilarity with their suspenseful pranks and, inspired by the Goons comedy radio show, they commit acts of theater which culminate in Bob bringing American rock and roll to the other boys for the very first time.
Author: Elizabeth Healy
Publisher: Irish American Book Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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The Liffey River rises from a pool high in the mountains of county Wicklow, runs a circular course through county Kildare, and then meets the sea in Dublin City.
Author: Jessica Traynor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906614973
Category : Artists' books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Liffey Swim is the debut collection of poems from Dubliner Jessica Traynor, in which family portraits combine with myth and history to create a strikingly assured and engaging suite of poems. Delivered in a language that is at once fresh and confident, these poems have already earned the poet a number of awards and honours, and mark her out as a distinctive new talent in Irish writing. "Her finely lyrical work is informed by wide travel, a meditative intelligence and an acute sense of history, in which Dublin and its three rivers become a living metaphor for the truths and felicities of one woman's life." - Harry Clifton
Author: Annette Black
Publisher: Four Courts Press
ISBN: 9781907002250
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A vivid history of Dublin unfolds in this exploration of more than 1,000 years of bridges over the river Liffey. From the time of the Vikings and their simple wooden bridge, through Dublin's late 17th-century expansion, when four new bridges were built within 14 years, to the iconic Ha'penny Bridge, the story of a city and its bridges is told. Dublin's bridges are not mere structures. They are monuments to heroes and heroines, celebrations of a great literary heritage, romantic reminders of gentler times, and futuristic style statements of a city's confidence in itself. They are portals to the city's past, revealing tales of bloody battles, political intrigue, innovative engineers and architects, dubious developers, and romantic liaisons. From the oldest surviving, Mellows Bridge of 1768, to the newest, the Rosie Hackett Bridge of 2014, all 24 bridges and those they replaced are eloquently described. Striking photographs, reproductions of old maps, and illustrations, along with suggested walking tours, complement the remarkable story of the bridges of Dublin. Lavishly illustrated, the book is essential for all those who are interested in this important part of Dublin's history. *** "This glorious volume, a perfect gift for all ages, will be treasured for generations. We only wish these bridges could talk!" -- Celtic Connection, August 2016 [Subject: History, Irish Studies, Architecture]
Author: Heidi Ashworth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996104449
Category : Heiresses
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Irish heiress Caroline Fulton knows this house party, ostensibly celebrating the victory of Waterloo, is really an audition: will she make a suitable wife? Her host, an English lord, has already won over her father, who's determined to buy a title with Caroline's dowry. She is far from taken with the baron, however, especially once she meets Niall Doherty, the impoverished, perceptive tutor to her host's younger brothers. He shares her love of Irish fairy tales and seems to guard a troubled past...but neither quality will earn Caroline's father's approval.
Author: Cathy Mansell
Publisher: Review
ISBN: 1472266412
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Dramatic, emotional and romantic, if you love Lorna Cook, Tracy Rees and Jenny Ashcroft, you'll love this gripping and heartrending novel from Cathy Mansell, author of A Place to Belong. 'Glorious - a cross between Maeve Binchy and Catherine Cookson' 5* early reader review 'A superb saga' PETERBOROUGH TELEGRAPH 'A heart-warming story full of characters you'll come to love' ROSIE GOODWIN 'Page-turning and compelling... Most highly recommended' MARGARET KAINE 'Rarely have I read a book where every character springs from the pages so authentically' JEAN CHAPMAN 'A warm-hearted, engaging story' MARGARET JAMES, WRITING MAGAZINE In 1950s Dublin, life is hard and jobs are like gold dust. Nineteen-year-old Nell Flynn is training to be a nurse and planning to marry her boyfriend, Liam Connor, when her mother dies, leaving her younger sisters destitute. To save them from the workhouse, Nell returns to the family home - a mere two rooms at the top of a condemned tenement. Nell finds work at a biscuit factory and, at first, they scrape through each week. But then eight-year-old Róisín, delicate from birth, is admitted to hospital with rheumatic fever and fifteen-year-old Kate, rebellious, headstrong and resentful of Nell taking her mother's place, runs away. When Liam finds work in London, Nell stays to struggle on alone - her unwavering devotion to her sisters stronger even than her love for him. She's determined that one day the Dublin girls will be reunited and only then will she be free to follow her heart. Look for more gripping, heartwrenching page-turners from Cathy Mansell - don't miss A Place to Belong, out now.
Author: John Shannon
Publisher: Pegasus Crime
ISBN: 9781933648910
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The detective the Chicago Tribune declared "the most interesting since Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins" himself goes missing.
Author: John De Courcy
Publisher: O'Brien Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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"The Panoramic View illustrates all the major Dublin buildings along the course of the Liffey, as they are today, and the bridges that cross it." --Back cover.
Author: Pat Sweeney
Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN: 185635685X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Book Description
The all but forgotten history of Dublin's shipbuilding yards.
