For the love of Ireland: A literary companion for readers and travelers
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Welcome to the Ireland of its Writers Walk the streets of Dublin with Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Roddy Doyle. Contemplate the wild glens of Wicklow with John Millington Synge and Seamus Heaney. Wander the thrilling Cliffs of Moher with Wallace Stevens. Visit antic Limerick with Frank McCourt; mysterious Coole Park with Lady Gregory; breathtaking Sligo with William Butler Yeats; wild Donegal with Brien Friel; and hidden Clare with Edna O'Brien. No place has inspired more great literature than Ireland, which in each new generation gives birth to an astonishing number of poets, storytellers, and dramatists. For the literary pilgrim to arrive, book in hand, at the pub where Joyce set a scene or the mountain where Yeats imagined a myth is to uncover fresh meaning in the works of writers in love with their native landscape. In For the Love of Ireland, Susan Cahill offers the jewels of Irish literature. Each selection is followed by traveler's advice on how to find and fully experience the place that's about. Whether you take this book with you to Ireland or savor it in your armchair, you will be enriched, ennobled, and entertained by writers of remarkable range and at the top of their form. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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subject_facet | Electronic books English literature -- Irish authors Ireland -- Literary collections Irish literature -- Translations into English Literary Criticism Literature Nonfiction Travel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | For the love of Ireland : a literary companion for readers and travelers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | For the love of Ireland : a literary companion for readers and travelers / edited and with an introduction by Susan Cahill For the love of ireland [electronic resource] : A literary companion for readers and travelers. Susan Cahill | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | For the love of Ireland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | A literary companion for readers and travelers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | English literature Irish authors Irish literature Literary Criticism Nonfiction Translations into English Travel |