For the Love of Ireland: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780345434197ISBN-10:345434196UPC:9780345434197Book Category:Travel, Literary Collections, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Europe, European, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshBook Topic:Ireland, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCW67A350F
Welcome to the Ireland of its Writers Walk the streets of Dublin with Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Roddy Doyle. Contemplate the wild glens of Wicklow with John Millington Synge and Seamus Heaney. Wander the thrilling Cliffs of Moher with Wallace Stevens. Visit antic Limerick with Frank McCourt; mysterious Coole Park with Lady Gregory; breathtaking Sligo with William Butler Yeats; wild Donegal with Brien Friel; and hidden Clare with Edna O'Brien. No place has inspired more great literature than Ireland, which in each new generation gives birth to an astonishing number of poets, storytellers, and dramatists. For the literary pilgrim to arrive, book in hand, at the pub where Joyce set a scene or the mountain where Yeats imagined a myth is to uncover fresh meaning in the works of writers in love with their native landscape. In For the Love of Ireland, Susan Cahill offers the jewels of Irish literature. Each selection is followed by traveler's advice on how to find and fully experience the place that's about. Whether you take this book with you to Ireland or savor it in your armchair, you will be enriched, ennobled, and entertained by writers of remarkable range and at the top of their form.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780345434197ISBN-10:345434196UPC:9780345434197Book Category:Travel, Literary Collections, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Europe, European, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshBook Topic:Ireland, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCW67A350F
Susan Cahill, PhD, is the editor of many highly praised anthologies, including Desiring Italy, For the Love of Ireland, Wise Women, The QPB Anthology of Writing by Women, and Women and Fiction. Author of the novel Earth Angels and co-author with Thomas Cahill of A Literary Guide to Irleand, she has taught at Queens College and Fordham University. She lives in New York City and, for part of the year, Rome.
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