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Classic Irish Stories: Timeless Tales from Ireland and Other Green Shores
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Product Description
This uncommon collection offers twenty hidden gems from Ireland's past, shedding new light on the illustrious literary history of the Irish at home and abroad. Readers can explore what it means to be Irish through the words of not just the famous authors but also the lesser-known ones, who are often difficult to find in anthologies and deserve wider publication. Writers include Oscar Wilde, who recounts his famous trip across America in 1882, playwright and humorist John Brougham, and essayist and poet Mary Boyle O'Reilly. The book also includes some of Ireland's famous legends and stories translated from ancient Irish texts.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2258212 in Books
- Published on: 2005-01-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 304 pages
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From the Back Cover
Featuring both famous authors and forgotten ones, these twenty literary gems offer a colorful kaleidoscope of perspectives on the Irish people and their character. Here are stories of daring patriots and reluctant warriors, magical musicians and young lovers, conniving landlords and hearty peasants, greenhorn immigrants and longtime transplants with an undying love of the old country. From the hills of Connemara to the streets of New York and the deserts of North Africa, these stories bring to light the odyssey of the intrepid Irish. They are sure to inspire, entertain, and enlighten-or at the very least, make you smile.
With works from:
Liam O'Flaherty, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Butler Yeats, Sarah Orne Jewett, George Moore, Frank Mathew, Samuel Lover, Bram Stoker, Katharine Tynan, Ellis N. Myles, Finley Peter Dunne, T. Crofton Croker, William Larminie, Lady Gregory, William M. Thackeray, Alexander Young, John McElgun, George A. Birmingham, Kate Douglas Wiggin
About the Author
MICHAEL P. QUINLIN has written hundreds of articles on Irish culture, politics, and history for the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Irish America magazine, and other publications. He attended the School of Irish Studies in Dublin, where he studied poetry with Eavan Boland and fiction with Benedict Kiely. In the early nineties he created Boston's Irish Writers Series, which featured the leading poets, novelists, scholars, and storytellers of Ireland and Irish America. He lives in Milton, Massachusetts.
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A lovely gathering of lyrical, lively writings
Stores from Irish peoples and expats alike are gathered into Michael Quinlin's Classic Irish Stories: Timeless Tales From Ireland And Other Green Shores, bringing the Irish experience and culture under one cover. Here are works from Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, William Thackeray and more, both contemporary and traditional writers providing a range of literary gems celebrating the 'old country'. A lovely gathering of lyrical, lively writings.
