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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. 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I didn't want to write a poem that said "blacknessis," because we know better than anyonethat we are not one or ten or ten thousand thingsNot one poem-from "Today's... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . He also gives poets an opportunity to write clearly and deeply about what they... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Kemp - Late in the Empire of Men - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated Signed and dedicated by Kempf to the late poet Eavan Boland. Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Lowell - ( 3 BOOK LOT ) - Near the Ocean ( Faber HB 1967) & Interviews and Memoirs ( HB 1988) & Collected Prose - HB ( FSG, 1987) Three titles on and from US poet Robert Lowell - (a) Interviews and Memoirs - HB University of Michigan Press, 1988, published after his death and with a host of reminiscences from other poets, academics , friends and colleagues. Edited by Jeffrey... 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Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . 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Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. 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Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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I didn't want to write a poem that said "blacknessis," because we know better than anyonethat we are not one or ten or ten thousand thingsNot one poem-from "Today's... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . He also gives poets an opportunity to write clearly and deeply about what they... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Kemp - Late in the Empire of Men - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated Signed and dedicated by Kempf to the late poet Eavan Boland. Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Lowell - ( 3 BOOK LOT ) - Near the Ocean ( Faber HB 1967) & Interviews and Memoirs ( HB 1988) & Collected Prose - HB ( FSG, 1987) Three titles on and from US poet Robert Lowell - (a) Interviews and Memoirs - HB University of Michigan Press, 1988, published after his death and with a host of reminiscences from other poets, academics , friends and colleagues. Edited by Jeffrey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary Gordon - Seeing Through Places : Reflections on Geography and Identity - HB The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City. Loosely laid in is a card from Scribner US editor Nan Graham... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mark Doty - My Alexandria - PB -1995 My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954 Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket. With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... 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Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. 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Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . 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Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. 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I didn't want to write a poem that said "blacknessis," because we know better than anyonethat we are not one or ten or ten thousand thingsNot one poem-from "Today's... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . He also gives poets an opportunity to write clearly and deeply about what they... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Kemp - Late in the Empire of Men - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated Signed and dedicated by Kempf to the late poet Eavan Boland. Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Lowell - ( 3 BOOK LOT ) - Near the Ocean ( Faber HB 1967) & Interviews and Memoirs ( HB 1988) & Collected Prose - HB ( FSG, 1987) Three titles on and from US poet Robert Lowell - (a) Interviews and Memoirs - HB University of Michigan Press, 1988, published after his death and with a host of reminiscences from other poets, academics , friends and colleagues. Edited by Jeffrey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary Gordon - Seeing Through Places : Reflections on Geography and Identity - HB The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City. Loosely laid in is a card from Scribner US editor Nan Graham... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mark Doty - My Alexandria - PB -1995 My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954 Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket. With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . He also gives poets an opportunity to write clearly and deeply about what they... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Kemp - Late in the Empire of Men - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated Signed and dedicated by Kempf to the late poet Eavan Boland. Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Lowell - ( 3 BOOK LOT ) - Near the Ocean ( Faber HB 1967) & Interviews and Memoirs ( HB 1988) & Collected Prose - HB ( FSG, 1987) Three titles on and from US poet Robert Lowell - (a) Interviews and Memoirs - HB University of Michigan Press, 1988, published after his death and with a host of reminiscences from other poets, academics , friends and colleagues. Edited by Jeffrey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary Gordon - Seeing Through Places : Reflections on Geography and Identity - HB The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City. Loosely laid in is a card from Scribner US editor Nan Graham... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mark Doty - My Alexandria - PB -1995 My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954 Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket. With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. 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Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. 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MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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I didn't want to write a poem that said "blacknessis," because we know better than anyonethat we are not one or ten or ten thousand thingsNot one poem-from "Today's... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . He also gives poets an opportunity to write clearly and deeply about what they... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Kemp - Late in the Empire of Men - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated Signed and dedicated by Kempf to the late poet Eavan Boland. Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Lowell - ( 3 BOOK LOT ) - Near the Ocean ( Faber HB 1967) & Interviews and Memoirs ( HB 1988) & Collected Prose - HB ( FSG, 1987) Three titles on and from US poet Robert Lowell - (a) Interviews and Memoirs - HB University of Michigan Press, 1988, published after his death and with a host of reminiscences from other poets, academics , friends and colleagues. Edited by Jeffrey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary Gordon - Seeing Through Places : Reflections on Geography and Identity - HB The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City. Loosely laid in is a card from Scribner US editor Nan Graham... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mark Doty - My Alexandria - PB -1995 My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954 Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket. With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. 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Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . 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Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. 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From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . 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From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . 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Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. 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Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . 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Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. 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From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. 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I didn't want to write a poem that said "blacknessis," because we know better than anyonethat we are not one or ten or ten thousand thingsNot one poem-from "Today's... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary Gordon - Seeing Through Places : Reflections on Geography and Identity - HB The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City. Loosely laid in is a card from Scribner US editor Nan Graham... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mark Doty - My Alexandria - PB -1995 My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954 Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket. With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... 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MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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I didn't want to write a poem that said "blacknessis," because we know better than anyonethat we are not one or ten or ten thousand thingsNot one poem-from "Today's... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . 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Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... 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MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details Lilliput Press J.P Donleavy - The Ginger Man - 60th Anniversary Edition - HB MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney / Opened Ground - Poems 1966-1996 - PB MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Jim Kemmy ( Editor) - OLD LIMERICK JOURNAL - FAMINE EDITION ( Number 32 - Winter 1995 ) MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details A.T Culloty - Nora Herlihy : Irish Credit Union Pioneer - PB - 1990 MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Eoin MacNeill - Celtic Ireland - PB 1981 ( Originally 1921) - Introduction by Donnchadh Ó Corrain) MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Pádraig Ó Snodaigh - Hidden Ulster : Ulster Protestants and the Irish Language - PB Booklet 1973 MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Robert Hogan & Michael J O'Neill- Joseph Holloway's Abbey Theatre : A Selection From his Unpublished Journal ' Impressions of a Dublin Playgoer' - HB - 1967 MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE Benedict Kiely - Proxopera ( Vintage Poolbeg PB 1977) MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details T.W Moody & F.X Martin- The Course of Irish History - PB Illustrated - Vintage 1984 15th Impression MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Jim O'Donnell - Wordgloss : A Cultural Lexicon (Words and Concepts you need to Know) MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details J.C Beckett - A Short History of Ireland - Vintage PB - 5th Edition 1973 MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Charles Berlitz- The Bermuda Triangle - Vintage 1975 PB MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE Polly Devlin - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Bernard Share - Flight of the Iolar : The Aer Lingus Experience 1936-1986 - HB MSRP: Now: €13.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Patricia Aarhus McDowell - The Voyage of Mael Duin - HB - Celtic Myth - 1991 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Elizabeth Alexander - The Venus Hottentot - PB Elizabeth Alexander's highly praised first collection of poems. 1992 reprint. I didn't want to write a poem that said "blacknessis," because we know better than anyonethat we are not one or ten or ten thousand thingsNot one poem-from "Today's... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . He also gives poets an opportunity to write clearly and deeply about what they... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Kemp - Late in the Empire of Men - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated Signed and dedicated by Kempf to the late poet Eavan Boland. Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Lowell - ( 3 BOOK LOT ) - Near the Ocean ( Faber HB 1967) & Interviews and Memoirs ( HB 1988) & Collected Prose - HB ( FSG, 1987) Three titles on and from US poet Robert Lowell - (a) Interviews and Memoirs - HB University of Michigan Press, 1988, published after his death and with a host of reminiscences from other poets, academics , friends and colleagues. Edited by Jeffrey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary Gordon - Seeing Through Places : Reflections on Geography and Identity - HB The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City. Loosely laid in is a card from Scribner US editor Nan Graham... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mark Doty - My Alexandria - PB -1995 My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954 Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket. With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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I didn't want to write a poem that said "blacknessis," because we know better than anyonethat we are not one or ten or ten thousand thingsNot one poem-from "Today's... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . He also gives poets an opportunity to write clearly and deeply about what they... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Kemp - Late in the Empire of Men - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated Signed and dedicated by Kempf to the late poet Eavan Boland. Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Lowell - ( 3 BOOK LOT ) - Near the Ocean ( Faber HB 1967) & Interviews and Memoirs ( HB 1988) & Collected Prose - HB ( FSG, 1987) Three titles on and from US poet Robert Lowell - (a) Interviews and Memoirs - HB University of Michigan Press, 1988, published after his death and with a host of reminiscences from other poets, academics , friends and colleagues. Edited by Jeffrey... 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Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . 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MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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I didn't want to write a poem that said "blacknessis," because we know better than anyonethat we are not one or ten or ten thousand thingsNot one poem-from "Today's... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . He also gives poets an opportunity to write clearly and deeply about what they... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Kemp - Late in the Empire of Men - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated Signed and dedicated by Kempf to the late poet Eavan Boland. Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Lowell - ( 3 BOOK LOT ) - Near the Ocean ( Faber HB 1967) & Interviews and Memoirs ( HB 1988) & Collected Prose - HB ( FSG, 1987) Three titles on and from US poet Robert Lowell - (a) Interviews and Memoirs - HB University of Michigan Press, 1988, published after his death and with a host of reminiscences from other poets, academics , friends and colleagues. Edited by Jeffrey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary Gordon - Seeing Through Places : Reflections on Geography and Identity - HB The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City. Loosely laid in is a card from Scribner US editor Nan Graham... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mark Doty - My Alexandria - PB -1995 My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954 Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket. With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details Robert Hogan & Michael J O'Neill- Joseph Holloway's Abbey Theatre : A Selection From his Unpublished Journal ' Impressions of a Dublin Playgoer' - HB - 1967 MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE Benedict Kiely - Proxopera ( Vintage Poolbeg PB 1977) MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details T.W Moody & F.X Martin- The Course of Irish History - PB Illustrated - Vintage 1984 15th Impression MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Jim O'Donnell - Wordgloss : A Cultural Lexicon (Words and Concepts you need to Know) MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details J.C Beckett - A Short History of Ireland - Vintage PB - 5th Edition 1973 MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Charles Berlitz- The Bermuda Triangle - Vintage 1975 PB MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE Polly Devlin - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Bernard Share - Flight of the Iolar : The Aer Lingus Experience 1936-1986 - HB MSRP: Now: €13.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Patricia Aarhus McDowell - The Voyage of Mael Duin - HB - Celtic Myth - 1991 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Elizabeth Alexander - The Venus Hottentot - PB Elizabeth Alexander's highly praised first collection of poems. 1992 reprint. I didn't want to write a poem that said "blacknessis," because we know better than anyonethat we are not one or ten or ten thousand thingsNot one poem-from "Today's... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. 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A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE Benedict Kiely - Proxopera ( Vintage Poolbeg PB 1977) MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details T.W Moody & F.X Martin- The Course of Irish History - PB Illustrated - Vintage 1984 15th Impression MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Jim O'Donnell - Wordgloss : A Cultural Lexicon (Words and Concepts you need to Know) MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details J.C Beckett - A Short History of Ireland - Vintage PB - 5th Edition 1973 MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Charles Berlitz- The Bermuda Triangle - Vintage 1975 PB MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE Polly Devlin - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Bernard Share - Flight of the Iolar : The Aer Lingus Experience 1936-1986 - HB MSRP: Now: €13.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Patricia Aarhus McDowell - The Voyage of Mael Duin - HB - Celtic Myth - 1991 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Elizabeth Alexander - The Venus Hottentot - PB Elizabeth Alexander's highly praised first collection of poems. 1992 reprint. I didn't want to write a poem that said "blacknessis," because we know better than anyonethat we are not one or ten or ten thousand thingsNot one poem-from "Today's... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary Gordon - Seeing Through Places : Reflections on Geography and Identity - HB The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City. Loosely laid in is a card from Scribner US editor Nan Graham... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mark Doty - My Alexandria - PB -1995 My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954 Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket. With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details T.W Moody & F.X Martin- The Course of Irish History - PB Illustrated - Vintage 1984 15th Impression MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Jim O'Donnell - Wordgloss : A Cultural Lexicon (Words and Concepts you need to Know) MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details J.C Beckett - A Short History of Ireland - Vintage PB - 5th Edition 1973 MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Charles Berlitz- The Bermuda Triangle - Vintage 1975 PB MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE Polly Devlin - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Bernard Share - Flight of the Iolar : The Aer Lingus Experience 1936-1986 - HB MSRP: Now: €13.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Patricia Aarhus McDowell - The Voyage of Mael Duin - HB - Celtic Myth - 1991 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Elizabeth Alexander - The Venus Hottentot - PB Elizabeth Alexander's highly praised first collection of poems. 1992 reprint. I didn't want to write a poem that said "blacknessis," because we know better than anyonethat we are not one or ten or ten thousand thingsNot one poem-from "Today's... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . 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A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . He also gives poets an opportunity to write clearly and deeply about what they... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Kemp - Late in the Empire of Men - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated Signed and dedicated by Kempf to the late poet Eavan Boland. Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Lowell - ( 3 BOOK LOT ) - Near the Ocean ( Faber HB 1967) & Interviews and Memoirs ( HB 1988) & Collected Prose - HB ( FSG, 1987) Three titles on and from US poet Robert Lowell - (a) Interviews and Memoirs - HB University of Michigan Press, 1988, published after his death and with a host of reminiscences from other poets, academics , friends and colleagues. Edited by Jeffrey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary Gordon - Seeing Through Places : Reflections on Geography and Identity - HB The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City. Loosely laid in is a card from Scribner US editor Nan Graham... 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . He also gives poets an opportunity to write clearly and deeply about what they... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Kemp - Late in the Empire of Men - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated Signed and dedicated by Kempf to the late poet Eavan Boland. Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Lowell - ( 3 BOOK LOT ) - Near the Ocean ( Faber HB 1967) & Interviews and Memoirs ( HB 1988) & Collected Prose - HB ( FSG, 1987) Three titles on and from US poet Robert Lowell - (a) Interviews and Memoirs - HB University of Michigan Press, 1988, published after his death and with a host of reminiscences from other poets, academics , friends and colleagues. Edited by Jeffrey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary Gordon - Seeing Through Places : Reflections on Geography and Identity - HB The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City. Loosely laid in is a card from Scribner US editor Nan Graham... 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MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE Polly Devlin - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Bernard Share - Flight of the Iolar : The Aer Lingus Experience 1936-1986 - HB MSRP: Now: €13.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Patricia Aarhus McDowell - The Voyage of Mael Duin - HB - Celtic Myth - 1991 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Elizabeth Alexander - The Venus Hottentot - PB Elizabeth Alexander's highly praised first collection of poems. 1992 reprint. I didn't want to write a poem that said "blacknessis," because we know better than anyonethat we are not one or ten or ten thousand thingsNot one poem-from "Today's... 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Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . He also gives poets an opportunity to write clearly and deeply about what they... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Kemp - Late in the Empire of Men - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated Signed and dedicated by Kempf to the late poet Eavan Boland. 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mark Doty - My Alexandria - PB -1995 My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954 Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket. With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details Bernard Share - Flight of the Iolar : The Aer Lingus Experience 1936-1986 - HB MSRP: Now: €13.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Patricia Aarhus McDowell - The Voyage of Mael Duin - HB - Celtic Myth - 1991 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Elizabeth Alexander - The Venus Hottentot - PB Elizabeth Alexander's highly praised first collection of poems. 1992 reprint. I didn't want to write a poem that said "blacknessis," because we know better than anyonethat we are not one or ten or ten thousand thingsNot one poem-from "Today's... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . He also gives poets an opportunity to write clearly and deeply about what they... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Kemp - Late in the Empire of Men - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated Signed and dedicated by Kempf to the late poet Eavan Boland. Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Lowell - ( 3 BOOK LOT ) - Near the Ocean ( Faber HB 1967) & Interviews and Memoirs ( HB 1988) & Collected Prose - HB ( FSG, 1987) Three titles on and from US poet Robert Lowell - (a) Interviews and Memoirs - HB University of Michigan Press, 1988, published after his death and with a host of reminiscences from other poets, academics , friends and colleagues. Edited by Jeffrey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary Gordon - Seeing Through Places : Reflections on Geography and Identity - HB The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City. Loosely laid in is a card from Scribner US editor Nan Graham... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mark Doty - My Alexandria - PB -1995 My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954 Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket. With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details Patricia Aarhus McDowell - The Voyage of Mael Duin - HB - Celtic Myth - 1991 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Elizabeth Alexander - The Venus Hottentot - PB Elizabeth Alexander's highly praised first collection of poems. 1992 reprint. I didn't want to write a poem that said "blacknessis," because we know better than anyonethat we are not one or ten or ten thousand thingsNot one poem-from "Today's... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . He also gives poets an opportunity to write clearly and deeply about what they... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Kemp - Late in the Empire of Men - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated Signed and dedicated by Kempf to the late poet Eavan Boland. Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Lowell - ( 3 BOOK LOT ) - Near the Ocean ( Faber HB 1967) & Interviews and Memoirs ( HB 1988) & Collected Prose - HB ( FSG, 1987) Three titles on and from US poet Robert Lowell - (a) Interviews and Memoirs - HB University of Michigan Press, 1988, published after his death and with a host of reminiscences from other poets, academics , friends and colleagues. Edited by Jeffrey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary Gordon - Seeing Through Places : Reflections on Geography and Identity - HB The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City. Loosely laid in is a card from Scribner US editor Nan Graham... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mark Doty - My Alexandria - PB -1995 My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954 Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket. With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Elizabeth Alexander - The Venus Hottentot - PB Elizabeth Alexander's highly praised first collection of poems. 1992 reprint. I didn't want to write a poem that said "blacknessis," because we know better than anyonethat we are not one or ten or ten thousand thingsNot one poem-from "Today's... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . He also gives poets an opportunity to write clearly and deeply about what they... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Kemp - Late in the Empire of Men - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated Signed and dedicated by Kempf to the late poet Eavan Boland. Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Lowell - ( 3 BOOK LOT ) - Near the Ocean ( Faber HB 1967) & Interviews and Memoirs ( HB 1988) & Collected Prose - HB ( FSG, 1987) Three titles on and from US poet Robert Lowell - (a) Interviews and Memoirs - HB University of Michigan Press, 1988, published after his death and with a host of reminiscences from other poets, academics , friends and colleagues. Edited by Jeffrey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary Gordon - Seeing Through Places : Reflections on Geography and Identity - HB The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City. Loosely laid in is a card from Scribner US editor Nan Graham... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mark Doty - My Alexandria - PB -1995 My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954 Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket. With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . He also gives poets an opportunity to write clearly and deeply about what they... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Kemp - Late in the Empire of Men - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated Signed and dedicated by Kempf to the late poet Eavan Boland. Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Lowell - ( 3 BOOK LOT ) - Near the Ocean ( Faber HB 1967) & Interviews and Memoirs ( HB 1988) & Collected Prose - HB ( FSG, 1987) Three titles on and from US poet Robert Lowell - (a) Interviews and Memoirs - HB University of Michigan Press, 1988, published after his death and with a host of reminiscences from other poets, academics , friends and colleagues. Edited by Jeffrey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary Gordon - Seeing Through Places : Reflections on Geography and Identity - HB The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City. Loosely laid in is a card from Scribner US editor Nan Graham... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mark Doty - My Alexandria - PB -1995 My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954 Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket. With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . He also gives poets an opportunity to write clearly and deeply about what they... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Kemp - Late in the Empire of Men - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated Signed and dedicated by Kempf to the late poet Eavan Boland. Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Lowell - ( 3 BOOK LOT ) - Near the Ocean ( Faber HB 1967) & Interviews and Memoirs ( HB 1988) & Collected Prose - HB ( FSG, 1987) Three titles on and from US poet Robert Lowell - (a) Interviews and Memoirs - HB University of Michigan Press, 1988, published after his death and with a host of reminiscences from other poets, academics , friends and colleagues. Edited by Jeffrey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary Gordon - Seeing Through Places : Reflections on Geography and Identity - HB The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City. Loosely laid in is a card from Scribner US editor Nan Graham... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mark Doty - My Alexandria - PB -1995 My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954 Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket. With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill ( Editors) - What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry - PB A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . He also gives poets an opportunity to write clearly and deeply about what they... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Kemp - Late in the Empire of Men - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated Signed and dedicated by Kempf to the late poet Eavan Boland. Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Lowell - ( 3 BOOK LOT ) - Near the Ocean ( Faber HB 1967) & Interviews and Memoirs ( HB 1988) & Collected Prose - HB ( FSG, 1987) Three titles on and from US poet Robert Lowell - (a) Interviews and Memoirs - HB University of Michigan Press, 1988, published after his death and with a host of reminiscences from other poets, academics , friends and colleagues. Edited by Jeffrey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary Gordon - Seeing Through Places : Reflections on Geography and Identity - HB The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City. Loosely laid in is a card from Scribner US editor Nan Graham... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mark Doty - My Alexandria - PB -1995 My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954 Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket. With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985 Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985. Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . He also gives poets an opportunity to write clearly and deeply about what they... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Kemp - Late in the Empire of Men - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated Signed and dedicated by Kempf to the late poet Eavan Boland. Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Lowell - ( 3 BOOK LOT ) - Near the Ocean ( Faber HB 1967) & Interviews and Memoirs ( HB 1988) & Collected Prose - HB ( FSG, 1987) Three titles on and from US poet Robert Lowell - (a) Interviews and Memoirs - HB University of Michigan Press, 1988, published after his death and with a host of reminiscences from other poets, academics , friends and colleagues. Edited by Jeffrey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary Gordon - Seeing Through Places : Reflections on Geography and Identity - HB The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City. Loosely laid in is a card from Scribner US editor Nan Graham... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mark Doty - My Alexandria - PB -1995 My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954 Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket. With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view IRISH POETRY Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 - Wake Forest Press PB Edition - 1979 Published by Wake Forest University Press, USA 1979. Printed at Dolmen ( the more common publisher linked with Kinsella, and who had published all the poems in seperate limited edition pamphlets . Edgewear and craesing to the front covers which are... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Charles Reznikoff - Poems 1918-1975 ( Complete Poems) - PB - Black Sparrow Press ( Edited by Seamus Cooney) "Charles Reznikoff's street wisdom, his keen eye for the New York City detail, his appetite for the telling narrative arc, all of these gifts are to be treasured. . . He also gives poets an opportunity to write clearly and deeply about what they... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Christopher Kemp - Late in the Empire of Men - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated Signed and dedicated by Kempf to the late poet Eavan Boland. Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Lowell - ( 3 BOOK LOT ) - Near the Ocean ( Faber HB 1967) & Interviews and Memoirs ( HB 1988) & Collected Prose - HB ( FSG, 1987) Three titles on and from US poet Robert Lowell - (a) Interviews and Memoirs - HB University of Michigan Press, 1988, published after his death and with a host of reminiscences from other poets, academics , friends and colleagues. Edited by Jeffrey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary Gordon - Seeing Through Places : Reflections on Geography and Identity - HB The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City. Loosely laid in is a card from Scribner US editor Nan Graham... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mark Doty - My Alexandria - PB -1995 My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954 Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket. With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Christopher Kemp - Late in the Empire of Men - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated Signed and dedicated by Kempf to the late poet Eavan Boland. Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Lowell - ( 3 BOOK LOT ) - Near the Ocean ( Faber HB 1967) & Interviews and Memoirs ( HB 1988) & Collected Prose - HB ( FSG, 1987) Three titles on and from US poet Robert Lowell - (a) Interviews and Memoirs - HB University of Michigan Press, 1988, published after his death and with a host of reminiscences from other poets, academics , friends and colleagues. Edited by Jeffrey... 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Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Robert Lowell - ( 3 BOOK LOT ) - Near the Ocean ( Faber HB 1967) & Interviews and Memoirs ( HB 1988) & Collected Prose - HB ( FSG, 1987) Three titles on and from US poet Robert Lowell - (a) Interviews and Memoirs - HB University of Michigan Press, 1988, published after his death and with a host of reminiscences from other poets, academics , friends and colleagues. Edited by Jeffrey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary Gordon - Seeing Through Places : Reflections on Geography and Identity - HB The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City. Loosely laid in is a card from Scribner US editor Nan Graham... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mark Doty - My Alexandria - PB -1995 My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954 Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket. With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. 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Quick view Mary Gordon - Seeing Through Places : Reflections on Geography and Identity - HB The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City. Loosely laid in is a card from Scribner US editor Nan Graham... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mark Doty - My Alexandria - PB -1995 My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954 Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket. With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... 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MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Mark Doty - My Alexandria - PB -1995 My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954 Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket. With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954 Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket. With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand. Edgewear to the covers... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996 In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets. Previous owner's name to front endpage ,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972 Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself) A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view IRISH POETRY Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018 Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018. Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view IRISH POETRY Eva Bourke - With Green Ink/ Mit Gruner Tinte ( Contemporary Irish Poetry) - Bilingual PB 1996 Published by Collibri, Germany 1996, translations of a ( wide) range of 20th century Irish poems by Eva Bourke. A signed compliment slip from the translator is loosely laid in. With illustrations from Gertrude Degenhardt. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997 Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Faber Publishing Derek Walcott - Midsummer - Vintage PB 1984 Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust - HB ( Translation by Alan Titley ) 2015 The 2015 English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille. Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view IRISH POETRY Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view IRISH POETRY Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully... MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7) Previous owner's inscription inside front cover. Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Jo Ann Galligan - The Mystery of the Lost Tower - PB ( Acorn Books Series - 12) Small format paperback, published by Hawthorn Books ( Children's Press) Dublin 1986. Light tanning to pages, otherwise unmarked. "It's the blackberry time in the west of Ireland. The McDonaghs are back at school, and Kevin's project... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view IRISH POETRY Pat Ingoldsby- Poems so Fresh and so New.. Yahoo! - PB 1995 From the back cover blurb - My poems give me courage when i feel afraid, company when I feel alone. They fill me up, take me high and help me get out of bed on the mornings when the world seems safer under my duvet. I hope they do good things for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view