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Fodor's Exploring Ireland
Lindsay Hunt
GUIDEBOOK 2006 PAPER 288 PAGES
With its many photographs, great introductory chapters and practical travel information, this book is an excellent overview of Ireland and its attractions for visitors. Its features include suggested places to visit, recommended walks, practical information, descriptions of restaurants and hotels, ratings of sights, and a chronology of historic events.
(IRE28, $22.00)
Ireland, A Concise History
Conor Cruise O'Brien
HISTORY 1985 PAPER 192 PAGES
With its lively, even-handed tone and hundreds of well-integrated photographs and illustrations, this book conveys the essence of Irish history and the Irish experience. Historian, scholar and statesman O'Brien is a grand figure in Ireland, and he sure can write.
(IRE20, $19.95)
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)
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, $13.95)
Ireland South, Holiday Map
Ireland Ordnance Survey
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A map of south Ireland at a scale of 1:250,000, including Cork and Kerry counties.
(IRE06, $17.95)
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Thomas Cahill
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
This best-selling history tells the generally unknown story of Ireland's preservation of classical learning in the Dark Ages.
(IRE07, $14.95)
Magnum Ireland
John Banville
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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)
Most Beautiful Villages of Ireland
Hugh Palmer
Christopher Fitz-Simon
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
This handsome oversize picture book is an illustrated portrait of Ireland. Hundreds of color photographs accompany lively essays by Christopher Fitz-Simon.
(IRE136, $40.00)
The Truth About the Irish
Terry Eagleton
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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, $13.95)
An Innocent in Ireland, Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters
David W. McFadden
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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)
McCarthy's Bar, A Journey of Discovery In Ireland
Pete McCarthy
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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, $15.95)
O Come Ye Back to Ireland, Our First Year in County Clare
Niall Williams
Christine Breen
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
The first of four engaging chronicles of life on a farm in Kilmihil, in rural County Clare, by an Irish-American couple who realized their lifelong dream of returning to Ireland.
(IRE16, $12.00)
Round Ireland With a Fridge
Tony Hawks
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A publicity-fueled story of an Englishman abroad, in this case, hitchhiking around Ireland with a refrigerator. It's an entertaining, insightful tale.
(IRE70, $13.95)
The Irish Way, A Walk Through Ireland's Past and Present
Robert Emmett Ginna
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Ginna weaves history and anecdote into a spirited, remarkably informed account of his 350-mile ramble down Ireland's central spine.
(IRE178, $15.95)
The Hill Bachelors
William Trevor
ANTHOLOGY
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)
The Bodhran Makers
John B. Keane
LITERATURE
A poignant novel of the conflict of traditional and Catholic values in 1950s County Kerry.
(IRE142, $14.95)
The Teapots Are Out and Other Eccentric Tales from Ireland
John B. Keane
LITERATURE
A collection of 17 sentimental, sad, outrageous and just plain fun stories by the prolific North Kerry saloon-keeper, balladeer, playwright and novelist. Keane, who died in 2002, had an eye (and ear) for Irish rural life.
(IRE144, $12.00)
Wild Decembers
Edna O'Brien
LITERATURE
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, $13.00)
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