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This book "uses the letters written home by an imaginary Chinese philosopher, Lien Chi Altangi, to provide an estranged perspective--both naèive and critical--on the imperial metropolis and the transformation of British society across the eighteenth century"--

"Vintage Stoppard in itsintelligence and wit." -VarietyIt is1936, and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be deadat last-yet his memories are dramatically alive. Confronting his younger selffrom the vantage of death, Housman thinks back to the man he loved, who couldnot return his feelings, and considers the Oxford of his youth, suffused withthe flamboyant influence of the Wildean Aesthetic movement and the restrictionsof High Victorian morality. Winner of the Evening Standard's Best PlayAward, The Invention of Love inhabits Housman's imagination as if adream, illuminating both the pain of hopeless love and the passion displacedinto poetry.

Bill Meulemans is an American author with no ties to Ireland. He lived and worked with working-class folks on both sides of the sectarian walls of Belfast during some of the darkest days of the conflict, building extensive personal friendships with both Catholics and Protestants. Meulemans did not waste a minute of his 14 years in Belfast. He was out on the street every day talking with the most vulnerable folks in town. Each of the 28 stories in this book gives a personal account that spans all his paramilitary connections, along with Irish and British officials, as well as the police. But he did have his share of close calls, including a time when Protestant loyalists thought he was a spy, and when a police commander intentionally knocked him down at an IRA funeral. But there were non-political times as well, when he brought a Trappist Monk and an Irish prize fighter together who had not been in touch for 54 years, and when he likely saved the lives of a young Irish couple who were being hunted by family members who planned to kill them. Yet there are tender moments in the book including a time when the author took an apprehensive, working-class Protestant mother from Belfast on her first visit to the South of Ireland where her son was to marry a Catholic. There was never a dull moment in his effort to make as many friends as possible. Bill Meulemans was a visiting professor of politics at The Queen's University of Belfast for 11 years, which gave him access to a wide section of young people across the province. When he wasn't in the classroom, he was on the street in the small neighborhoods that dot the Belfast sectarian landscape. He was trusted by folks who seldom trusted anyone.

Kæreste T, uanset hvad du hører, så tro ikke et øjeblik på det ...1940: I det sydvestlige Irland bliver den unge og smukke lady Charlotte Rathmore erklæret død, efter at hun på mystisk vis forsvinder ved søen omkring Blackwater Hall. I London sørger Nancy Rathmore over sin svigerindes død, da hun modtager et brev med en hemmelighed, der vil ændre hendes liv for altid.2019: Årtier senere bliver journalist Ellie Fitzgerald tvunget til at forlade Dublin efter en skandale, og hun vender tilbage til sit barndomshjem i landlige Kerry for at ride stormen af. Men da hun opdager et falmet brev, gemt inde i en bog, bliver hun draget af et gammelt mysterium om Blackwater Hall. Efterhånden som Ellie kommer på sporet af den gamle sag, står det klart, at brevet måske rummer nøglen til mere end bare Charlottes forsvinden. Pressen skriver: ”Et spændende mysterium i flere lag, der spænder over generationer. Stemningsfuldt og smukt skrevet.”   – Tracy Rees”Overbevisende, spændende og fyldt med frodige historiske detaljer. . . Amanda Geard er en spændende ny stemme, og jeg kan ikke vente med at læse mere fra hende!”– Hazel Gaynor”Jeg elskede denne bog! Den er så smukt skrevet og fuldstændig fængslende. Jeg elskede de forskellige tidslinjer, personerne og de omgivelser, handlingen foregår i. Den indeholder alt og mere til, hvad man kan ønske sig af en bog.”– Goodreads”Midnatshuset er en fængslende fortælling om tre kvinder og deres liv, der flettes sammen. Den er fuld af vidunderlige karakterer, og det er vanedannende læsning. Alt flyder perfekt, og det hele samler sig på det helt rigtige tidspunkt.”– Goodreads”Min fantasi blev straks fanget af billedet af en sø og et hus på forsiden af Midnatshuset. Jeg begyndte at spekulere på, hvilke hemmeligheder det kunne rumme. En spændende fortælling om familiehemmeligheder.”– Goodreads

EN UFORGLEMMELIG KÆRLIGHEDSHISTORIE I TO TIDSSPOR OM FAMILIE, HEMMELIGHEDER OG SKÆBNENS LUNER …Den unge skønhed Leah er født og opvokset i et simpelt, men hjertevarmt hjem i Yorkshire. Livet tager dog en dramatisk drejning, da hendes veje krydser den indflydelsesrige, men tvivlsomme Delancey-familie.Flere år senere lever Leah et liv i luksus som feteret fotomodel i Milano, London og New York. Men trods sit internationale jetsetliv langt fra Yorkshire kan hun ikke undslippe fortiden.Mørke kræfter kaster skygger over hendes liv, der på gådefuld vis er forbundet med den tragiske historie om to unge søskende i Polen under Anden Verdenskrig.Årtiers familiehemmeligheder og en skæbnesvanger profeti truer alt, hvad Leah har kæmpet for at opnå gennem et helt liv, og hun må nu kæmpe for at gøre sig fri af fortiden og trodse den skæbne, som synes at være skrevet i stjernerne.I Den skjulte skønhed tager bestsellerforfatteren Lucinda Riley os med fra et krigshærget Europa i 1940’erne til nutidens glamourøse jetsetliv i New York.

By mixing text, 3D animation and a dynamic physicality, this play is a powerful look at the ripple effects of one man's decision.

Born in County Meath, Robert John Hunter was educated at Wesley College and Trinity College, Dublin. After graduation he began his extensive and all-consuming research on the Ulster Plantation. Through his meticulous research he gained an encyclopaedic knowledge of his subject acquiring a reputation as one of the great experts on this seminal event in Irish history.Published for the first time is Bob Hunter's MLitt dissertation 'The Ulster Plantation in the Counties of Armagh and Cavan 1608-41, a fascinating study of two counties that were an integral part of the Plantation of Ulster.In his penetrating analysis of the impact of Plantation in Armagh and Cavan, R.J. Hunter demonstrates his mastery of the sources, his eye for detail and his succinctness of presentation. Hunter's command of his subject - in places magisterial - was grounded on a strong chronological foundation, in which each development was located in its proper time and place.The depth of understanding that Hunter brings to these and other aspects of plantation society is matched by the depth of the archival research that underpins it.

And that's the moment when I leave.The moment when the jokes fail us. When I fail. I fail.This precise moment here, look, see with your ears.The Fool leaves King Lear before the blinding. Before the killing starts. Before the ice-creams in the interval.In his new solo work, playwright Tim Crouch draws on ideas of virtual reality to send the Fool back to the future of the play that he left. Back to a world without moral leadership or integrity; a world where wealth covers vice; where the poor are dehumanised; where the jokes fall flat; where live art has become the privilege of the few.Truth's a Dog Must to Kennel is a daringly unaccommodating piece of theatre that switches between scathingly funny stand-up and an audacious act of collective imagining. King Lear meets stand-up meets the metaverse. Crouch's previous celebrated works include An Oak Tree, The Author, Adler & Gibb, Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation, and Beginners.This edition was published to coincide with the production at The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh in August 2022.

Here is Connemara, experienced at a walker's pace. From cartographer Robinson comes the second title in the Seedbank series, a breathtakingly intimate exploration of one beloved place's geography, ecology, and history. "Exceptional...A book about one place which is also about the whole world."--Robert MacFarlane.lane.

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The first fully annotated, contextualised, and textually authoritative edition of Swift's Irish prose writings from 1726 to 1738.

First critical edition for over 50 years, it sheds new light on Swift, his relationships and the historical period.

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Irland i 50’erne: Den unge pige Eilis bor sammen med sin mor og søster i en lille by. Faren er død, og livet er hårdt for familien. Eilis møder en præst, som er på besøg fra New York, og han lover at skaffe hende et job. I Brooklyn begynder Eilis at arbejde i en tøjforretning, og hun finder sig hurtigt til rette, især da hun forelsker sig i italieneren Tony. Da hun bliver kaldt til begravelse hjemme i Irland, står hun pludselig over for et stor valg: Skal hun blive i Irland, hvor hun har sine rødder og gifte sig med Jim - eller skal hun tage tilbage til Amerika og en fremtid sammen med Tony? Om forfatteren: Colm Tóibín (f. 1955) er en af vor tids vigtigste irsk forfattere. Han bor i Dublin og New York, hvor han underviser på Columbia University. Han har modtaget adskillige priser, bl.a. IMPAC Award og været shortlistet til Booker Prize tre gange.

Det er 1976, og irskfødte Eilis Lacey har boet i USA i tyve år sammen med sin mand Tony og deres to teenagebørn. De bor på Long Island, tæt på Tonys store italienske familie. Da Tony bringer et uægte barn ind i familien, beslutter Eilis sig for at tage hjem til Irland for første gang, siden hun rejste. I Dublin møder hun sin ungdoms store kærlighed Jim, et møde, som tvinger Eilis til at tage stilling til sit liv. Long Island er et portræt af en kvinde, kærlighed og svære livsvalg, skrevet med intensitet og stor psykologisk indsigt. Long Island er en selvstændig opfølgning til Brooklyn. Om forfatteren: Colm Tóibín (f. 1955) er en af vor tids vigtigste irske forfattere. Han bor i Dublin og New York, hvor han underviser på Columbia University. Han har modtaget adskillige litterære priser, bl.a. IMPAC Award og været shortlistet til Booker Prize tre gange.

Noel King was born and lives in Tralee, Co Kerry, Ireland. His poetry collections are Prophesying the Past (Salmon, 2010), The Stern Wave (Salmon, 2013), Sons (Salmon, 2015), and Alternative Beginnings: Early Poems (Kite Modern Poetry Series, 2022). He ran Doghouse Books, an Irish poetry press, from 2003 until 2013 and was poetry editor of Revival Literary Journal (Limerick Writers' Centre) in 2012/13. His short story collection, The Key Signature & Other Stories, was published by Liberties Press in 2017. He has been awarded the 2024 Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship and is 2023/24 Writer-in-Residence at St. Brendan's College, Killarney.

Meet Liz O'Brien, a young Irish girl whose thirst for adventure leads her to the mystical land of India; This is not just a travel memoir; it's a story of self-discovery that's brimming with humour and a love that defies cultural boundaries.

""Students������� Readings And Questions In English Literature"" is a book written by Harriet Lawrence Mason, first published in 1898. The book is designed to be a guide for students of English literature, providing a comprehensive collection of readings and questions to help them deepen their understanding of the subject. The book is divided into several sections, each focusing on a different period of English literature, from the Anglo-Saxon era to the Victorian era. Within each section, there are a variety of readings, including poetry, prose, and drama, from a range of authors such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth. After each reading, there are a series of questions designed to encourage students to engage with the text and think critically about its themes, characters, and language. The questions cover a range of topics, from literary analysis to historical context, and are intended to help students develop their skills in close reading and textual interpretation. Overall, ""Students������� Readings And Questions In English Literature"" is a valuable resource for students of English literature, providing a comprehensive collection of readings and questions to help them deepen their understanding of the subject. It is also a useful tool for teachers and educators looking for a structured and comprehensive approach to teaching English literature.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.