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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, $15.00)
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. One Side. 41x35 inches.
(IRE23, $23.95)
Fodor's Dublin's 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK
Take along this handy pocket guide, which includes a map and information on city highlights.
(IRE30, $11.95)
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)
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 early 20th centuries.
(IRE195, $11.95)
The Celts: A Very Short Introduction
Barry W Cunliffe
HISTORY
A concise, revealing social history of the Celts, by a reigning authority and popular writer.
(CLT03, $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, $14.95)
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 in this most famous of medieval manuscripts.
(IRE09, $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)
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, $13.95)
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