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Read Ireland Book Reviews, October 2002
Brush: A Tale of Two Foxes by Pierce Feiritear
This exciting and fast-paced story tells of two hungry and mischievous
young foxes who set out one snowy Christmas Eve to get food and - as one
expects from foxes - ‘bite off more than they can chew.’ Trouble comes
in the form of an ugly hound called Raptor and his nasty scheming owners,
the MacLugs. Can our two heroes out-fox them? Children aged 6 to 10 will
enjoy this book which is written by a practising teacher and is pitched
at the appropriate reading level. Another attractive feature is the superb
collection of drawings by 14-year-old artist Conor O Brien. A definite
‘must’ for that Christmas stocking!
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War Children by Gerard Whelan
This is a compelling and powerful collection of stories set in the time
of the War of Independence in Ireland. It includes six stories about children
who get caught up in the War of Independence and suffer dire consequences.
The young people in these stories, set in town and country, become sometimes
willing and sometimes unwilling participants in situations they only vaguely
understand. But neither innocence nor ignorance offers protection against
Black and Tans, Auxillaries, rebels or police. These stories being to
life on of the most dramatic periods in Irish history.
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Out of the Flames by Vincent McDonnell
This book is an action-packed story of conflict and danger set in Ireland
and Africa. Maria witnesses the brutal murder of her mother by soldiers
of the corrupt Malangan regime. Fearful that she will be the next target,
her father ends her to Ireland for safety. But the refugee hostel in the
village of Culduagh is not the safe haven she expected. Hostility to the
strangers erupts into violence and Maria finds herself caught in a collision
of cultures, fuelled by prejudice and fear. Despite this, a friendship
blossoms between Maria and local boy David. But danger still threatens
in the form of Jonah Kegale, a secret policeman from Malanga sent to Ireland
to find Maria.
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Five Alien Elves by Gregory Maguire
This novel is an intergalactic adventure with the Copycats and Tattletales.
‘Tis the night before Christmas, and a strange vehicle appears in the
sky above Vermont. Is it Santa’s sleigh drawn by reindeer? No, it’s five
aliens from the planet Fixipuddle, caught in Earth’s gravity and plummeting
to the ground. The aliens tune into a movie about Santa Claus and get
the wrong idea: Who is this evil tyrant who sneaks into people’s houses
and steals food? Disguised as elves, they set out to free Earth from this
villain.
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Gyrfalcom by Grace Wells
This book is a unique adventure story about warriors, spirits and a lonely,
brave boy. Gyr’s life used to be simple: there was Mum, Dad and his little
sister Poppy. But now all that has changed and nothing makes sense anymore.
Gyr is angry, lost and betrayed. Then into his shattered life comes an
enchanting presence - a hero from another time, another world. His world
is one of power, energy, truth and honour - could this be part of Gyr’s
world too?
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The Love Bean by Siobhan Parkinson
This novel is full of romance, secrets and rivalries. It weaves two compelling
stories of four teenage twin girls across time, location and race. Twins:
they like the same things. But that can cause problems. Especially where
boys are concerned. When Tito, a tall, handsome African, walks into Lydia
and Julia’s lives, it turns every relationship upside down. Then there’s
the ‘twinny book’ - The Curiosity Tree. It’s about Sun’va and Eva: they
are twins too. And a boy has just sailed into their lives, causing havoc.
Romance mirrors romance, jealousy mirrors jealousy - it seems like history
is repeating itself. Two compelling stories of love.
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Walter Speazlebud by David Donohue
Walter Speazlebud is an ordinary boy - with extraordinary powers. Walter
is a whizz at spelling backwards. He also has the power of Noitanigami
(Imagination) - he can make people, and animals, go backwards in time
- two skills he inherited from his favourite person, his grandfather.
So when his horrible teacher, Mr. Strong, starts picking on Walter, he
had better watch out. And so had the even more horrible class bully, Danny
Biggles.
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The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch by Anne Enright
An exquisitely written historical epic, this author’s third novel is
based on the true story of the beautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch, who,
in the 1860s, became, briefly, the richest woman in the world. The book
opens in Paris, with Eliza in bed with Francisco Solano Lopez - heir to
the untild wealth of Paraguay. The fruit of their congress will be extrairdinary,
and will send her across the Atlantic: leading a caravan of servants,
clothes, jewellery and champagne on the regal voyage down the River Parana
to claim her glorious future in Asuncion. What she finds is a narrow,
provincial town: a decayed nobility, contemptuous of this Irish courtesan,
and the oppressed poor, yearning for self-determination. Together with
Lopez, Eliza embarks on a series of disastrous wars that define the nation
and demonstrates her power. She seems to carry all before her, until the
moment when she discovers the true sweep of her own cruelty. With the
lavish imaginative richness of Marquez and the crazed panoramic sweep
of Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, this novel is a bold and brilliantly achieved
story about sex, beauty and corruption and the end of the old world.
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The Horse with My Name by Colin Bateman
Dan Starkey - international man of inaction - rides again! How far can
he fall this time? Ex-journalist Dan Starkey is stuck in a grimy Belfast
bedsit. His life is a disaster, and his only solace is the pub round the
corner (and the last can in his hand). He need to get our more (particularly
since the sessions at Relate with his wife Patricia have been cancelled
and she’s hooked up with new man Clive). He really, really needs something
to get his teeth into. Fellow ex-journalist Mark Corkery, whose secret
passion is The Horse Whisperer, an internet horse-racing gossip, wants
him to investigate Geordie McClean, the man behind Irish American Racing.
Simple enough for a man with Dan’s experience, surely? But trouble is
Dan’s middle name. And trouble is what he finds. This is a witty and fast-paced
novel, throbbing with menace, and with a fine sense of the ridiculous.
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The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
Captain Gault had seen off the three intruders easily enough. They had
come in the night with the intention of firing the house, but a single
shot had sent them scuttling back into the darkness. One, though, had
been wounded and for that the Gaults were not forgiven: sooner or later
there would be trouble again. Other big-house families had been driven
out - the Morells from Clashmore, the Gouvernets, the Priors, the Swifts.
It was time to go. But Lucy, soon to be nine, the only child of the household,
could not bear the thought of leaving Lahardane. Her world was the old
house itself, the woods of the glen, the farm animals, the walk along
the seashore to school. All of that she loved and as the day of departure
grew closer she determined that this exile should not take place. But
chance changed everything, bringing about a calamity so terrible that
it might have been a punishment, so vicious that it blighted the lives
of all the Gaults for many years to come. This novel by one of Ireland’s
finest writers begins in rural Cork in 1921, in a country still in turmoil.
The old order has fragmented; a way of life is already over. Trevor brilliantly
conveys the disquiet and confusion that colour the story of Lucy Gault
as it’s told while happens, in towns and countryside, and told again when
passing time has made it different.
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Just Between Us by Cathy Kelly
In the Irish country town of Kinvarra, the fabulous Miller girls are
generally reckoned to have it all. There’s Stella, with the looks of a
Renaissance Madonna and a brilliant lawyer’s mind. A single mum who has
combined work and raising her daughter with aplomb, the only thing missing
from her life is the right man. Now, at last, she’s going to get a second
chance. Tara is the sharp, cool one. At the top of her TV career, she’s
recently married the love of her life, the charming Finn, after a whirlwind
romance of just six months. And shy, beautiful Holly is living a bohemian
city life that all her old classmates envy, with artistic friends and
a beautiful apartment where her creative talents find an outlet. At the
centre of the family is there mother, Rose, calm, elegant and about to
celebrate her fortieth wedding anniversary. But nothing in the lives of
Rose and her daughters is as it seems, and as plans are made for the party
of the decade, the secret heartaches the four women have kept hidden,
even from each other, begin to emerge.
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Shroud by John Banville
Axel Vander, celebrated academic and man of culture, is spending his
twilight years on the west coast of America, when, out of the blue, a
letter arrives hinting at secrets he has been hiding for fifty years.
To find out just how much the writer knows about his past, Vander arranges
to meet her in Turin. But he is thrown into emotional turmoil by this
encounter with Cass Cleave, a deeply troubled young woman desperate to
discover a reason to continue living; and the meeting of the two leads
inexorably towards disaster. Written in faultless, almost painfully beautiful
prose, this is a novel which is not afraid to ask deep questions, nor
to answer them emphatically. It is a richly rewarding work from one of
the most accomplished Irish novelists of his generation.
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Ireland’s World Cup 2002 by Mick McCarthy
In this honest and thought-provoking book, Mick McCarthy recounts his
epic transformation from Ireland manager to one of the most respected
men in world football. Mick McCarthy and the Irish team were at the centre
of global media attention when the World Cup finals got underway. Their
tournament became a great summer odyssey, with Mick at the helm. On buses,
at the press conferences, in the dressing room and on the sidelines in
Saipan, Japan and Korea, Mick wore his heart on his sleeve and refused
to compromise his leadership and Ireland’s team spirit. From the nervousness
of the qualifiers to the traumas of the ‘hardest week’ of his life, McCarthy
lived and worked under the glare of the world’s publicity. His drive and
belief in his team were unquestioning, and the joy of success with the
wonderful Irish squad was his reward. Mick McCarthy experienced it all
at the World Cup 2002: this is the story.
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West of Ireland Summers: A Cookbook by Tamasin Day-Lewis
In this vivid account of summers spent in the remote beauty of the west
of Ireland, the author rekindles the sights, sounds, smells and, above
all, the tastes of her family holidays since childhood. This book is a
celebration of food and of Ireland. The author’s passion for cooking is
evident in more than 100 dishes; some traditional Irish recipes, some
recapturing the tastes of her childhood and others created by the author
herself. The recipes include Killary Bay Mussel Chowder; Scallop, Pollack
and Squid Pie; Leek, Potato and Oatmeal Tart; Poached Peaches in an Orange-Flower
Sabayon; Blackcurrent Leaf Sorbet; and Rich Chocolate Fondant. These recipes
combined with stunning photographs and a lively text make this a truly
irresistible cookery book.
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Jenny Bristow Cooks for the Seasons: Autumn and Winter
by Jenny Bristow
In this book, popular television cook Jenny Bristow presents a mouth-watering
collection of new recipes for autumn and winter. As always, the distinctive
Bristow style of maximum results for minimum fuss is applied to dishes
like special lentil soup, broomstick pumpkin kebabs, roasted autumn pork
with nutty apple stuffing, hazelnut meringue with elderberry syllabub
and poached plums and many more. There are sections on Christmas cooking,
heart-warming drinks and luxurious sweet treats for giving - or for self-indulging!
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The Home Place by Brian Leyden
Sparked by the arrival of a National Geographic photographer in Arigna,
County Leitrim in 1978, this book spans three generations and a century
of transformation in a small coal-mining and hill-farming community on
the Shannon River. This lyrical memoir is also the tale of Nan and her
twin sister Lil, two stalwart matriarchs of the river valley. But the
passing of Lil marks the end of an era, and the beginning of a journey
back through memory to the home place. A subtle evocation of a landscape,
a people and their history, this is a story laced with images that cut
to the quick - from the sights and sounds of early childhood to the antics
of teenage-hood in 1970s rural Ireland. Richly-peopled, the book brings
to life a vibrant world of ballroom romances and house dances, Yankee
parcels and American visitors, coal cutting and stuff strutting. Tender
and meticulously crafted, it delights in linking the past with the present,
chronicling a place where time stood still while the people moved on.
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Martin Mansergh: A Biography by Kevin Rafter
Martin Mansergh has been one of the most influential figures in Irish
politics for over twenty-five years. Plucked from civil service obscurity
by Charles Haughey in 1981, Mansergh went on to become the Fianna Fail
leader’s most trusted confident, and the only party adviser to survive
through the leadership upheavals that brought first Albert Reynolds and
then Bertie Ahern to power. What was it that brought this English-born,
Oxford-educated member of the Church of Ireland to the core of successive
Irish governments? And what was the extent of his role in the clandestine
contacts with the Republican movement that initiated the peace process
in Northern Ireland? In the summer of 2002, Mansergh swapped his backroom
role as a government advisor for membership of Seanad Eireann. In this
penetrating and revealing biography, the author presents the first in-depth
examination of this remarkable man and his contribution to contemporary
Irish society.
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History of Kylemore Castle & Abbey by Kathleen
Villiers-Tuthill
The history of Kylemore is the history of two homes - Kylemore Castle
and Kylemore Abbey - and of two communities; the community within and
the community without. The period covered is from 1862 to 2002, from the
time Mitchell Henry first took possession of Kylemore right to the present
day. Kylemore Castle was built by Mitchell Henry for his family and friends,
but carrying with it a community of 125 tenants. The two communities were
from the start interlocked, their fate intertwined. Out of two changes
of ownership came a very particular community; the community of Benedictine
Nuns. The transformation from private home to Abbey took many years to
achieve and tremendous dedication and determination on the part of the
Benedictine Nuns. Under the Nuns the tenants won their land and were given
the opportunity for further education and employment. The story of Kylemore
is truly a remarkable story. The twists of fate which have marked its
history at crucial moments from its inception, the crises and moments
of sadness which its occupants have endured, and the inspiring examples
of courage and resilience which have marked their response to various
challenges, combine to constitute a rich historical mosaic.
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Shelley and Revolutionary Ireland by Paul O’Brien
In this original and engaging book, the author tells the previously untold
story of Shelley’s relationship with Ireland. When Shelley set sail for
Ireland in 1812, he was only 19 years old. He was full of radical enthusiasm
and energy, having recently been expelled from Oxford for making his atheism
public. Shelley was born in the shadow of the French revolution and the
rebellion of the United Irishmen. This book reveals just how thoroughly
and whole-heartedly the young poet threw himself into the cause of Irish
freedom. Later generations of Irish writers appreciated Shelley’s influence.
This exploration of Shelley’s relationship with Ireland is an antidote
to much writing on him which portrays him as a brilliant lyrical poet
but an ineffectual dreamer.
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Wisdom of the Celtic Saints by Edward C. Sellner
Faithfully presenting the lives and legacies of twenty Celtic saints
on the sixth to the ninth centuries, in this book the author reveals their
wisdom in a way that can be understood and appreciated by contemporary
readers. With background material on the Catholic church, the characteristics
of its spirituality, the symbolism in the stories, and the role of soul
friends, readers will reap a rich harvest for their own spiritual growth.
The stories recounted range from the well-known, like Patrick, Brendan,
and Brigit, to those less likely to be familiar - Monesan, Samthann and
Aidan. Vivid portrait-illustrations by Susan McLean-Keeney add to the
prayerful beauty of the book.
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The Celtic Soul Friend by Edward Sellner
To be a ‘soul friend’, the author reminds us, ‘is to provide a place
of sanctuary to another where, through our acceptance, love, and hospitality,
he or she can grow in wisdom, and both of us in depth.’ With deep personal
conviction and with lively scholarship, the author describes the history
of the ‘anamchara’, or soul friend, and the early Celtic Church out of
which it arose. He leads the reader on a lively exploration of the ancient
Druids and the early desert monks of Egypt, whose traditions and practices
were the foundation of soul friendship. He shares with us the unique qualities
of soul friendship in the lives of the great saints like Ita and Brendan,
Brigit and Patrick, and Ciaran and Kevin. And he offers a profound portrait
of the Celtic spirituality out of which the ‘anamchara’ emerged, a spirituality
with a deep appreciation of nature, a respect for women’s gifts and leadership,
and a holistic perspective on the relationship of the mind and the body.
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The Colour of Rain by Alex Skalding
This is a novel for children aged 10-14 years. It rains and rains. All
colour washed out from the world. The Grey Time comes and people get frightened.
An evil dictatorship threatened to take power. Only seven kids can still
see in colour, and they are sent in search of the RAINBOW !
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Making Peace in Ireland by Jeremy Smith
For nearly thirty years many believed the conflict in Northern Ireland
an intractable problem. The failure to resolve the conflict in Ireland
has had epic and tragic consequences, appearing impervious to solution.
This book shows how the seemingly unachievable was finally achieved. This
book travels the slow, painful journey from political conflict to settlement
with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, and explores the role and impact
of party leaders drawing their communities into an accord with once sworn
enemies. It reveals the dynamics of change that laid the groundwork for
political solution and the role of intermediaries who modestly orchestrated
events and constructed the formula for a peace agreement. Examining early
attempts to find a solution and their inevitable failure, the author the
focuses on the 1990s, the Joint Declaration of 1993 and the cease-fires
of 1994, leading to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and the outstanding
problems, especially dissident Republican paramilitary groups, arms decommissioning,
future Loyalist parades and the vexed question of policing in Northern
Ireland. This is one of the first books to unravel all the complications
of the peace process in Northern Ireland and a must for anyone who wants
to understand contemporary Anglo-Irish politics.
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Greenspeak: Ireland in Her Own Words by Paddy Sammon
This book explains the nuances of Irish English, the unique version of
English spoken in Ireland, that has developed through the interweaving
of the English and Irish language. The 2,000 entries -words and phrases
in both English and Irish - cover every aspect of Ireland from food to
folklore, poetry to politics, triads to technology. Irish-language headings
come complete with translations and phonetics. The chronology and etymology
of words and phrases are also provided and thousands of quotations illuminate
the headwords and put them into context. The book is easy to read and
the ideal companion for students, teachers, word-buffs and visitors to
Ireland; it paints a vivid word-picture of the country.
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The Flight of the Earls by John McCavitt
Until the end of the sixteenth century, Ulster was the most Gaelic part
of Ireland. Fifty years later, it was the least Gaelic part. In 1607 Hugh
O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and other Gaelic chieftains fled to the continent
and settled in Rome. Their lands were declared forfeit to the crown and
were cleared for the plantation of Ulster that followed. Why did O’Neill
and those other chieftains flee? This outstanding history gives the reader
the answer to this and many other questions. O’Neill had rebelled against
the crown in the 1950s, had eventually been defeated at the Battle of
Kinsale and had reached a nervous but secure peace settlement with the
English crown. He was left in possession of his lands and was not formally
threatened by London. However, crown officials in Dublin - especially
the grasping Sir Arthur Chichester - maintained a campaign of harrassment
against O’Neill and his followers that played no small part in driving
them from their ancestral lands. Throughout the remainder of his life,
O’Neill intended to return. He never did. His flight was one of the decisive
moments in Irish history. It opened the way for the Ulster plantation,
one of the truly crucial events in the formation of modern Ireland.
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Great Irish Drinking Stories edited and introduced
by Peter Haining
Ireland’s drinking culture has been exported around the world and given
the Irish a reputation as an entertaining and talkative nation. It has
been an inspiration for Ireland’s other great export, her writers. From
James Joyce, Flann O’Brien and Brendan Behan to Roddy Doyle and Patrick
McCabe, all have written about drinking and its effects, the stuff of
life and sometimes the troubling consequences. The writers in this anthology
are: Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan, Roddy Doyle, Patrick McCabe, Frank
O’Connor, Shane MacGowan, William Trevor, Malachy McCourt, Bernard Shaw,
Peter Tremayne, Robert J. Martin, James Joyce, Patrick Kavanagh, Flann
O’Brien, Marian Keyes, Sean O’Faolain, Edna O’Brien, Bernard MacLaverty,
Brian Friel, Sean O’Casey, J.M. Synge, Glenn Patterson, William Carleton,
Lynn Doyle and Eamonn Sweeney.
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Social Attitudes in Northern Ireland: The 8th Report
edited by Ann Marie Gray, et. al.
This book is an indispensable guide to attitudes to current social and
political issues in Northern Ireland. Based on extensive data gathered
in the annual Northern Ireland Life and Times survey, it features a series
of essays by leading academics that discuss and comment on a wide range
of public attitudes to religion, politics and social policy issues. These
include devolution and the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement;
community relations; attitudes to science and genetic information; education;
housing; pensions; transport; social inequality and the rights of the
child. This is the latest report on social attitudes in Northern Ireland
and is based on data from the 1998 and 1999 surveys, as well as drawing
on material from previous years. It is essential reading for all those
concerned with social and political debate in Northern Ireland.
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Undertow by John F. Deane
Sheer survival is difficult enough for the people of a small island off
the west of Ireland - what chance do they have of love or even of dignity?
In the 1950s their battle is with the savage forces of poverty, disease
and religious constraint. Terrible things happen - rape, incest, bestiality
- and yet somehow compassion, love and generosity of spirit manage to
continue. Brooding over it all is the elemental figure of Big Bucko, symbolic
of all that is brutal and disruptive. Four decades later, the island is
facing other dangers: the Spanish fishing boats that threaten the livelihood
of the trawlermen, the encroachment of tourism and the gradual disintegration
of community. But still the people strive to transcend their common legacy
of suffering, to reach for love and a new connectedness. Mythic, lyrical
and moving, this novel sounds the depths of our relationship with nature
and with each other, and bears witness to love’s endurance in spite of
all.
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Charity by Fiona O’Brien
Behind the deceptively tranquil facades of Dublin 4, where the new breed
of super-rich collect desirable properties faster than designer labels,
the so-called charity set are being anything but charitable! Lornagh Murphy,
Dublin beauty and charity ball organiser, has relationship problems. Her
image-fixated boyfriend Simon has plans for an engagement party that will
make the pair the talk of the town, but Lornagh isn’t so sure. Enter Sean
O’Rourke, dashing head architect on the new building for Lornagh’s charity.
The pair may not exactly see eye-to-eye at first, but there’s definitely
something simmering 85 that is until Penelope Cruz’s double enters the
scene, wearing 85 well, nothing. Add label-obsessed Melissa Sheehan, mix
with coke-crazed millionaire Michael Moriarty, throw in some fund ‘mismanagement’
and a brush with Dublin’s most ruthless gangster, and you’ll see that
when it’s all in the name of charity, the rule book gets flung.
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A Secret History of the IRA by Ed Moloney
For decades, the IRA has been one of the world’s most feared, ruthless
and impenetrable terrorist organizations. But during this time, the author
of this book, former Irish journalist of the year, has been gaining unprecedented
access to its most closely guarded secrets. This book is the sensational
inside story of the IRA and it has never been told before: its inner workings
and top-secret meetings; its most dangerous informers, bombers and gunmen;
the deadly rivalries and betrayals that tore it apart; and, most astonishing
of all, the years of behind-the-scenes negotiations with the British and
Irish governments that until now have never been revealed. And at the
heart of the story lies one man: Gerry Adams. The author discloses shocking
new material on the career of Gerry Adams as an early IRA leader in Belfast
and his unrelenting rise to power, asking the question: how could a man
who condoned terrible atrocities also be the guiding force behind the
ceasefire and the peace process? This revelatory book will change for
ever the way the reader sees the IRA and its bloody thirty-year conflict
with Britain.
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Field Day Anthology of Irish Literature Volume IV
and V: Irish Women’s Writing and Traditions
The publication of this long-awaited book raises the issues of the function
of feminist recovery and re-interpretation of texts. The first three volumes
of the Field Day Anthology were not simply a reaction to the traditional
canon: they questioned the whole notion of literary canons and a universal
standard of literary greatness. Literary canons and historical traditions
have lost the power of consensus in the last two decades and have become
areas of cultural conflict and transformation. The fact that the issue
of gender was not acknowledged in the first three volumes eludes to the
difficulty involved in such a post-modern version of cultural history.
The particular challenge to the editors of Volumes IV and V was to radically
exceed the agenda set by the earlier volumes.Eleven years in the making,
harnessing the skills and expertise of dozens of scholars, this book is
without doubt one of the most important publishing events in Ireland for
many years. The two volumes cover a period from 600AD to the end of the
twentieth century and provide a unique resource for the study of Irish
society from the perspective of Irish women’s writing. Offering a truly
interdisciplinary approach, this anthology exposes preconceptions about
Ireland, women, writing and history. Texts covering the fields of literature,
journalism, history and criticism, as well as legal, medical, theological
and scientific writing in the English and Irish languages provide an unrivalled
range of sources for scholars and students. Oral traditions are also examined
and transcribed, and many translations of Irish language texts in particular
are published for the first time. These volumes, while they do not complete
a map of Irish history, seek to put existing maps into questions. As with
the first three volumes, bio-bibliographies of writers cited are a significant
feature of these volumes. Both are also fully cross-referenced with the
earlier volumes.
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The Dublin Review Number 6 Spring 2002 Edited by Brendan Barrington
This issue of the Dublin Review contains the following: The Making of St. Thherese of Lisieux by Ann Marie Hourihane; Ciaran Carson on the iconography of the Troubles; ‘Kavanagh’s Threat’ by Harry Clifton; ‘Seven Years in the Brothers’ by Tom Dunne; Harry Browne on the Bloody Sunday films; David Wheatley: What is a poet-critic?; J.C.C. Mays on the power of Trevor Joyce; A story by Douglas Martin.
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Brendan Barrington
This issue of the Dublin Review contains the following: ‘An Alienated
Isle’ : Colm Toibin on Henry James and Ireland; McGuinness and the Boys
by Adrian Frazier; Anne Enright: Pages from a New Novel; Michael Longley:
‘Seven War Poems’; ‘Pick, pack, pock, puck’: Tom Paulin on Joyce’s noises;
James Ryan: A moor in Co. Laois; Conchita of the Pryenees by Bernard Loughlin;
A story by Emma Donoghue; Dublin’s ‘new’ Rembrandt by John Ihle.
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The Dublin Review Number 8 Autumn 2002 Edited by Brendan Barrington
This issue of the Dublin Review contains the following: ‘Barrier Methods’: Harry Browne on Irish immigrations controls; Derek Mahon: ‘Yeats and the Lights of Dublin’; Translating Joseph Roth: Michael Hofmann; Seamus Heaney on the making of a poem; ‘On Getting Paid to Read the TLS’ by Molly McCloskey; Petrie and the Irish Musical Tradition: Ciaran Carson; Caitriona O’Reilly reads Eoin McNamee; ‘What the British Knew’ by Eunan O’Halpin; Fiction by Keith Ridgway and Jennifer Varney; Poems by Christopher Matthews
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