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Ireland: Connemara
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/W83830. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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These 3 items are available
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For the Love of Ireland, A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers
• Susan Cahill
ANTHOLOGY •
2001 •
PAPER
• 458 PAGES
A rich anthology of writing about Ireland by such Irish luminaries as James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Seamus Heaney, William Trevor, Frank McCourt, Edna O'Brien and Samuel Beckett. The well-chosen excerpts, organized by province, evoke the geography of Ireland in wonderful literary detail. Cahill provides an introduction to each selection, along with specific routes and advice for the literary traveler. Highly recommended for any traveler, the anthology is also a fine introduction to Irish literature. The excerpts include short stories, novels, poems and memoirs.
(IRE77, $15.95) |
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Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
• W.B. Yeats
LITERATURE •
2004 •
PAPER
• 380 PAGES
This volume combines two books of folklore edited by the Nobel Prize-winning poet who spearheaded the Celtic Renaissance in the early 20th century. These stories of changelings, ghosts, mermaids, demons, saints, priests and fairies are enchanting and entertaining. Originally published in 1918.
(IRE04, $16.00) |
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Ireland Map
• Michelin
2011 •
MAP
A colorful map of Ireland at a scale of 1:400,000, featuring insets of the road approaches to major cities, as well as an index to cities, towns, and villages. One Side. 41x35 inches.
(IRE23, $11.95) |
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Also Recommended
How the Irish Saved Civilization
• Thomas Cahill
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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This best-selling history tells the generally unknown story of Ireland's preservation of classical learning in the Dark Ages.
(IRE07, $15.95)
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Magnum Ireland
• John Banville
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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This evocative collection of 250 photographs captures the people, landscapes and changing face of Ireland from the 1950s to the 21st century.
(IRE170, $60.00)
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Most Beautiful Villages of Ireland
• Hugh Palmer
• Christopher Fitz-Simon
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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With hundreds of color photographs, this illustrated portrait of Ireland, its landscape, architecture and people includes maps and a travel guide.
(IRE136, $26.95)
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The Truth about the Irish
• Terry Eagleton
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An irreverent A-to-Z guide to all things Irish by a native son and shrewd comic commentator, who casts aside many myths, starting with the first entry - A for alcohol (the Irish have the lowest per capita consumption of alcohol in the E.U., after Greece and Italy).
(IRE167, $14.95)
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An Innocent in Ireland, Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters
• David W. McFadden
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The determinedly eccentric Canadian poet and essayist McFadden abandons a more ambitious journey and simply walks the countryside, exploring modern day Irish character as well as Ireland's history.
(IRE22, $18.95)
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McCarthy's Bar, A Journey of Discovery in Ireland
• Pete McCarthy
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A droll account of McCarthy's encounters on a bar-hopping jaunt from Cork along the west coast to Donegal. His motto, assiduously followed, was never to pass up a bar with his name on it!
(IRE168, $16.99)
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O Come Ye Back to Ireland, Our First Year in County Clare
• Niall Williams
• Christine Breen
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The first of four engaging chronicles of life on a farm in Kilmihi in rural County Clare, by an Irish-American couple who realized their lifelong dream of returning to Ireland.
(IRE16, $12.00)
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Round Ireland With a Fridge
• Tony Hawks
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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From Dublin to Donegal, from Sligo through Mayo to Galway, Clare, Kerry, Cork, Wexford and Wicklow, the English comic really does hitchhike his way around Ireland, on a bet, with an appliance (albeit a mini-fridge). Surprisingly, this deeply silly, thoroughly entertaining book also captures the warmth and spirit of the Irish.
(IRE70, $14.95)
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The Hill Bachelors
• William Trevor
• LITERATURE
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No one writes better short fiction than William Trevor. This collection of 12 stories captures the life and people of rural Ireland.
(IRE42, $15.00)
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Wild Decembers
• Edna O'Brien
• LITERATURE
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A haunting novel of clan enmities and forbidden love in rural Ireland. Few writers have as sure a sense of place as Edna O'Brien, whose lyrical prose builds inevitably toward final tragedy.
(IRE94, $13.95)
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