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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 Map
Ordnance Survey
MAP
A colorful map of Ireland at a scale of 1:450,000, featuring insets of the road approaches to major cities, as well as a complete index to cities, towns, and villages.
(IRE23, $12.95)
Fodor's Dublin's 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK
This handy pocket guide includes a helpful map and information on city highlights.
(IRE30, $11.95)
Frommer's Ireland
Christi Daugherty
GUIDEBOOK
Focusing on culture, history and suggested itineraries, this excellent guide covers where to go and what to do throughout the Emerald Isle.
(IRE228, $21.99)
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)
In Search of Ancient Ireland, The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English
Carmel McCaffrey
HISTORY
This spirited, illustrated history, the companion to a PBS documentary series, traces the foundation, archaeology, and legends of ancient Ireland from 9000 B.C. to 1167 A.D with style and substance.
(IRE222, $16.95)
Luck and the Irish, A Brief History of Change 1970-2000
Roy Foster
HISTORY
Foster takes in the sweep of contemporary Irish popular culture, music, literature and politics in this short personal book, originally delivered as the Wiles Lectures in Belfast in 2004.
(IRE237, $30.00)
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)
Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland
Malachy McCourt
HISTORY
Rich in anecdote and biography, McCourt may not break new ground but he sure knows how to tell a tale in this entertaining history of the Emerald Isle from Pict and Celtic origins to Yeats, Joyce, Beckett and Bono.
(IRE233, $15.95)
Modern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction
Senia Paseta
HISTORY
A remarkably concise history in the well-regarded series, touching on the major aspects of Irish history, politics, and society in the late 19th and 20th century.
(IRE195, $11.95)
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)
Ireland, An Oxford Archaeological Guide
Andy Halpin
ARCHAEOLOGY
A complete guide and gazetteer covering Ireland's ancient sites and places of interest. With over 250 plans and illustrations of the major sites and treasures
(IRE191, $29.95)
The Book of Kells, An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin
Bernard Meehan
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Written by the keeper of manuscripts at Trinity College, this book features 110 color illustrations, including enlargements, of some of the more spectacular decorations on this most famous of medieval manuscripts.
(IRE09, $19.95)
Green Shadows, White Whale
Ray Bradbury
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Set in Dublin, this 1953 hymn to Ireland recounts Bradbury's hilarious experiences writing the Moby Dick screenplay with John Huston (who Bradbury refers to affectionately as the "Devil Himself").
(IRE53, $12.95)
Ireland, In a Glass of Its Own
Peter Biddlecombe
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A hilarious account of a journey through Ireland by the seasoned and well-traveled author.
(IRE185, $15.95)
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)
Silver Linings, Travels Around Northern Ireland
Martin Fletcher
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
An account of travels, as well as of the people, politics and traditions of Northern Ireland, infused with the author's humor and insightful reporting.
(IRE146, $14.99)
The Great Shame, And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World
Thomas Keneally
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Novelist Keneally traces his ancestors from Ireland to America and Australia in the 19th century in this absorbing family memoir.
(IRE204, $19.95)
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)
Dubliners
James Joyce
LITERATURE
James Joyce's unsurpassed collection of short stories depicting ordinary life in Dublin among the lower middle class -- a milestone in the history of prose fiction.
(IRE15, $9.95)
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)
Troubles
J.G. Farrell
LITERATURE
Set on the eve of the Irish Rebellion, this first novel in Farrell's remarkable Empire Trilogy illuminates the British Empire's decline in Ireland and the Anglo-Irish to hilarious, haunting effect.
(IRE171, $16.95)
Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose
W. B. Yeats
LITERATURE
An authoritative anthology, heavily annotated and with biographical and background information.
(IRE208, $22.75)
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