Dublin lilliput press (Más de 1100 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Youth dives into the lives of four teenagers in Irelands most diverse town, Balbriggan. Angel is about to finish school and discover if Drill music and YouTube fame can deliver on their promises. Princess is battling to escape her claustrophobic surroundings and go to university and Dean is ready to come out from under his famous fathers shadow, while Tanya, struggling with the spotlight of internet infamy, is still posting her dream life for all of her faithful followers. Isolated and disorientated by the white noise and seemingly insurmountable expectations of adolescence, our protagonists are desperate to find anything that helps them belong. Oblivious to one anothers presence, potential and struggles, they pass each other on the street as strangers. But when their paths cross, the connections they make will change the course of their lives. Twenty-first century life hyper-sexualized, social media saturated, anxiety-plagued is here. Living inside its characters heads, and negotiating their interior landscape, this book is a love song to the possibilities of youth. Using insights gained from the young people he works with, Currans evocative writing yields the authenticity this novel demands. With instinctive affection and admiration for his characters strengths and complexities, Youth is a journey through streets less travelled. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The Land Question has always been predominant in Ireland. According to forecasts, there will be as few as 15,000 farmers in twenty years time. As the Irish rural image undergoes radical transformation, this timely, informative, vigorously argued book will be necessary reading for those working in rural development, food production, housing, transport, heritage and conservation, to say nothing of those who simply care about Irelands future. Land Matters concerns social and ecological change, the underlying results of structural and policy decisions made in Brussels or Dublin and their impact on the ground. It addresses the following themes: globalization and the forces that shape society; the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy), and why it has been reformed; social inequality; REPS (the Rural Environment Protection Scheme) and its impact; survival strategies in everyday life (farm households and diversification); green capitalism; landscape, heritage and the politics of perception; nitrate pollution; migration; contrasting rural visions (housing in the country, clean food); and views of a region west Cork in which competing claims are made by farmers, hoteliers, conservationists and second-home owners. Key organizations such as Teagasc, the IFA, An Taisce and Organic Trust are also examined and profiled. Land matters permeate all our lives, from our supermarket shelves to our television screens and studies, from our boardrooms to our streets, dwellings, communities and belief systems. No one will be untouched by the issues raised in this pioneering, analytic work. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. A Lost Tribe is a novel that charts the role of the priest in Ireland, from his exalted position to one of an endangered species. The seminarians at St Pauls are granted permission to watch the opening of Vatican II, transfixed by the procession of bishops vested in flowing robes. Seduced by the power emanating from Rome and inspired by the vision of the Vatican Council, these young men sacrifice their instincts to a life in the priesthood. The dream collapses when the Irish Church becomes unwilling to evolve with a rapidly mutating world and unable to wield the power it once had. Unable to cope with the pressures of ministry and no longer fulfilled by their call, many abandon their vocation to seek a new life. Mac, a spirited young student, is disillusioned with the inadequacy of his seminary training and is expelled for a tryst, while timid fellow priests share remedies for the collective loneliness of their vocation. Kings daring novel offers an insight into the conflicted life of the priest struggling with the demands of a self-selected lifestyle and the isolation of clerical celibacy. A Lost Tribe is a poignant study of an altered society. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. In the midst of the Second Intifada, two acts of extreme violence lead to an act of extraordinary humanity. A suicide bomb was detonated outside a nightclub in Tel Aviv, killing twenty-two people, mostly young Israelis. The next day, in an apparently retributive act of violence, an Israeli settler shot Palestinian pharmacist, Mazan Al-Joulani in the neck, rendering him brain-dead. From the ashes of these deadly events rose an incredible act of generosity when the family of Al-Joulani agreed to donate his heart to a dying Israeli. The son of pioneering cardiologists, Rowan Somerville travelled to the Levant to speak with survivors and their families, interviewing the surgeon who performed the transplant, and meeting the family of the suicide bomber Saeed Hotari. In this close look at humanity at work, Somervilles writing is at once personal and objective, an outsiders unbiased view of events steeped in, but overcoming, prejudice. The close observations and fastpaced narrative style have the immediacy of a contemporary thriller. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Abandoned by her parents when they resettle in Meath, Mary O Conaill faces the task of raising her younger siblings alone. Padraig is disappeared, Sean joins the Christian Brothers, Bridget escapes and her brother Seamus inherits the farm. Maeve is sent to serve a family of shopkeepers in the local town. Later, pregnant and unwed, she is placed in a Magdalene Laundry where her twins are forcibly removed. Spanning the 1930s to the 70s, this sweeping multi-generational family saga follows the psychic and physical displacement of a society in freefall after independence. Wit, poetic nuance, vitality and authenticity inhabit this remarkable novel. The Cruelty Men tells an unsentimental tale of survival in a country proclaimed as independent but subjugated by silence. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Paul Clements travels the length of the Shannon in this book. It will be of interest to nature lovers and to tourists, containing a wealth of local knowledge of the area around Shannon, especially useful for staycations. In August 1939 the Irish travel writer Richard Hayward set out on a road trip to explore the Shannon region just two weeks before the Second World War broke out. His evocative account of that trip, Where the River Shannon Flows, still sought after now by lovers of the river, became a bestseller. Eighty years on, inspired by his work, Paul Clements author of Romancing Ireland, the biography of Richard Hayward retraces Haywards journey along the river, following if not strictly in his footsteps then within the spirit of his trip. From the Shannon Pot in Cavan, 344 kilometres south to the Shannon estuary, his meandering odyssey takes him by car, on foot, and by bike and boat, discovering how the riverscape has changed but is still powerful in symbolism. While he recreates Haywards trip, Clements also paints a compelling portrait of twenty-first century Ireland, mingling travel and anecdote with an eye for the natural world. The book gives a voice to stories from water gypsies, anglers, sailors, lock keepers, bog artists, insta pilgrims and a water diviner celebrating wisdom through her river songs and illuminates cultural history and identity. Wildlife, nature, and the built heritage, including historic bridges, all play a part. On a quixotic journey Paul Clements produces an intimate portrait of the hidden countryside, its people, topography and wildlife, creating a collective memory map, looking at what has been lost and what has changed. This is the country of the River Shannon that runs through literature, art, cultural history and mythology with a riptide pull on our imagination a tribute to Irelands longest river reflecting the deep vein flowing through the culture of the country. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The war of words between critics and writers is no paper conflict but affects daily life where literature and politics interact. The twentieth-century concern is nowhere more evident than in Ireland today where the growing 'Troubles' in Ulster gave critical debate particular focus. In this clear-eyed survey Bill McCormack assesses the alliances, the animosities, the factions, seeking to show the common ground they share even as they dispute its possession. In his analysis of individual writers, journals and larger enterprises, McCormack raises some unexpected possibilities: Is Conor Cruise O'Brien best understood as a Catholic mystic? Should Field Day be seen as a depoliticising force in Irish culture? What truly distinguishes the manoeuvres of Seamus Heaney, Terence Brown, Edna Longley and Denis Donhgue from each other? Have critics begun to learn from historians, or have historians begun to fight shy of culture? Is the British "Literary Left" imperialist? Is there a non-sectarian art? Underlying this polished and stimulating critique is a sombre awareness of literature's contribution to political malaise, and a call for an engagement with the real forces that govern people's lives. Underlying this polished and stimulating critique is a sombre awareness of literature's contribution to political malaise, and a call for an engagement with the real forces that govern people's lives. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Soft Cover. Condición: vg+. 268 pages; b/w photos throughout; interior clean & tight; 9" tall; very light shelf wear to edges of photo il'd wraps. Paperback.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 227 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not Compromised. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Lightly bumped at the top left corner, clean pages, light foxing on the foredges.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. The book contains writings by Seamus Heaney, Frances Ruane, Carlos Garcia-Monzon, Eva Bourke, Frankie Gavin, Rosemarie Noone, James McKenna, Desmond Egan, Patrick Murphy & Frank McGuinness. It is lavishly illustrated & surveys the entire career of this distinguished artist. The book contains writings by Seamus Heaney, Frances Ruane, Carlos Garcia-Monzon, Eva Bourke, Frankie Gavin, Rosemarie Noone, James McKenna, Desmond Egan, Patrick Murphy & Frank McGuinness. It is lavishly illustrated & surveys the entire career of this distinguished artist. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Part One of this large format book will enable you to collect information for your family tree simply by talking to people, and provides a series of beautiful fill-in charts to permanently record a family tree of up to five generations. Part Two contains information on Irish family history and includes advice for those who want to proceed further with this fascinating hobby. The Ancestor Album is the ideal book for the beginner. If you dont want to do the family tree yourself give it to the kids and get them to do it. this large format book will enable you to collect information for your family tree simply by talking to people, and provides a series of beautiful fill-in charts to permanently record a family tree of up to five generations. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Soft Cover. Condición: Good. Text clean & bright; binding tight; minor wear to covers. 300 pages. Illustrated.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Approx. 7 3/8" wide by 8 5/8". Book to guide you through researching your family history, specifically families in Ireland. With charts and questionnaires which have not been filled in. ; 56 pages.

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Using a play by Karl and Josef Capek as source, Flann OBrien locates his insect drama in Dublin, his most familiar stalking- territory. His adaptation is a vehicle for ridicule and invective, targeting race, religion, greed, identity and purpose. With his extraordinary ear for dialogue, OBrien creates his own fantastical world, and the outcome is a hilarious satire of Irish stereotypes as Orangemen, Dubliners, Corkagians and culchies become warring ants, bees, crickets, dung-beetles, and other small-minded invertebrae. The lost text of this play, Hilton Edwards prompt copy from the 1943 Gate Theatre performance, was discovered in the archives at Northwestern University, Illinois. Using a play by Karl and Josef Capek as source, Flann OBrien locates his insect drama in Dublin, his most familiar stalking- territory. His adaptation is a vehicle for ridicule and invective, targeting race, religion, greed, identity and purpose. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Two poets, a playwright and a novelist Michael Longley, Eavan Boland, Frank McGuiness and Anita Desai explore in these essays aspects of the imaginative process as each has experienced it: four major writers, four sensibilities, four ways of seeing creativity and its contexts. MICHAEL LONGLEY writes with remarkable candour of his years 1970 to 1991 as arts administrator in Northern Ireland. Transforming anecdote into parable, this noted poet measures the cost of trying to remain true to yourself facing the dark tower while being part of an essential but often soul-destroying bureaucracy. EAVAN BOLAND, merging the personal and the theoretical, contends that the place of women as writers in Irish society have been shaped by a fusion of the national and the feminine. FRANK MCGUINESS, the internationally acclaimed playwright, offers a radically innovative reading of Oscar Wildes De Profundis, while calling into being the material contexts of creativity in this instance, a prison cell. The Indian novelist ANITA DESAI looks at her countrys colonial heritage and a shared background that gave rise to the work of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and the film-maker Satyajit Ray. Her fascinating lecture shows how a vibrant indigenous culture, coming into fruitful contact with the West at the end of the nineteenth century, blossomed into artistic creation yielding parallels with Ireland. Two poets, a playwright and a novelist Michael Longley, Eavan Boland, Frank McGuiness and Anita Desai explore in these essays aspects of the imaginative process as each has experienced it: four major writers, four sensibilities, four ways of seeing creativity and its contexts. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 220 pp. Illustrated with numerous b/w vignettes. A very good copy.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The devil was going around again and everyone knew because it was in the papers. An usherette in the Metropole saw him at An Apartment for Peggie, eating oranges in a brown trilby; two women in Clerys Bargain Basement came upon him fingering cups in a highly suspicious manner; and The Evening Mail said pretty drapers assistant, Lily Shine, nineteen, from Cabra West, was dancing with a fellow in a brown suit when she felt something funny, looked down, and fainted. In these unsettling tales of late 1940s Dublin, young Eily Doolin encounters the gentle foot-fetishist next door, the Argentinian tango-dancer from Ballybough, the Jewish couple who introduce her to the delights of carrot cake and Chopin, the simple boy who carries a secret hatred, and, in the climactic closing story, the devil himself. Along the way there are two murders, a suicide, and more illicit sex than Eily can comprehend. Ena Mays post-Emergency Dublin is at once recognizable and utterly unlike all previous literary versions of the city. Her gimlet-eyed narrator inhabits secret childhood places as well as the grown-up kitchens and parlours of Blarney Park, twitching the veil between public and private, street and home. Ena May has created a remarkable narrative voice, perfectly pitched between the knowing and the naive, the compassionate and the sarcastic, the intrepid and the bewildered. A Close Shave with the Devil, fables of adults at play in a childs world, is a tour de force of storytelling, and a remarkable debut collection. Ena Mays post-Emergency Dublin is at once recognizable and utterly unlike all previous literary versions of the city. A Close Shave with the Devil, fables of adults at play in a childs world, is a tour de force of storytelling, and a remarkable debut collection. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This handsome volume presents more than twenty images of book covers, poems and other works that reflect Sligos presence in the work of W.B. Yeats and his family. Thoughtful reflections accompany the images, many of which are of first editions found in the Yeats in Sligo collection at the Yeats Society. They invite us to experience Yeatss poetry as he wanted contemporary readers to receive it.The beautiful Cuala Press editions in the Sligo collection are themselves works of art created by W.B.s sister Elizabeth Yeats. Images of such precious artefacts found in this book are part of what Henry James called the visitable past a realm containing the fragrance of the poetry of the thing outlived and yet in which the precious element of closeness, telling so of connections but tasting so of differences, remains appreciable.The title of this book is a composite. The first element is the name of the poem in which Yeats declares that he lies Under Ben Bulben in Drumcliffe churchyard. The second is The Metal Man, a figure on a beacon that guides ships to and from Sligo, who came to embody the Yeats siblings memories of their childhood under his watchful eyes.This small gem of a book will have a reach far beyond Sligo as an illuminating companion and delightful gift to all readers of Irish poetry.ABOUT THE AUTHORJoseph M. Hassett has written extensively on Yeats, Joyce and other Irish writers. His previous publications include Yeats Now: Echoing into Life (Lilliput, 2020), The Ulysses Trials (Lilliput, 2016) and W.B. Yeats and the Muses (OUP, 2010).PRAISE FOR UNDER THE METAL MAN: SLIGO IN YEATSJoseph Hassetts subtle insights into Yeatss imagination and life are once more underlined by this beautiful little book, poignantly showing how many Images that yet / Fresh images beget derive from Sligo, and return there. A treasure. ROY FOSTERThis book is a Cabinet of Curiosities. Open it and be transported to the creative heart of the Yeats family and to the soul of Sligo, the two commingled to powerful and bountiful effect. PAULA MEEHANWith his customary lucid grace and style, Hassett pilots us with ease and informed authority through the deep channel that runs between the Sligo that made Yeats, and the Sligo that Yeats made. Under the Metal Man offers a treasure trove of insights and discoveries. THEO DORGAN This handsome volume presents more than twenty images of book covers, poems and other works that reflect Sligos presence in the work of W.B. Yeats and his family. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: Fine. 1st edition. 214pp, octavo, tight binding, clean throughout, clean wraps with sharp corners.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In south Kilkenny, where Duiske stream joins the river Barrow at Graiguenamanagh, lies one of Irelands many Norman-Cistercian abbeys. Song of Duiske is a novella set amongst this monastic community in the year 1304, a century after the abbeys foundation. It evokes the textures and rhythms of a medieval religious settlement, its peaceful routines as well as occasional trials, and celebrates with quiet lyricism the seasons and their solaces, the open sky, the fields and the woods. In south Kilkenny, where Duiske stream joins the river Barrow at Graiguenamanagh, lies one of Irelands many Norman-Cistercian abbeys. Song of Duiske is a novella set amongst this monastic community in the year 1304, a century after the abbeys foundation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What is your problem if you are ringled to a flazzard? When is Chewidden Day? How might you get out of the langle? Why is going for a dacker a quite innocent activity in one place, but something rather more lewd elsewhere? Words, Words, Words probes lexicography, dialect, sexual practices, sport and social history to create a humorous and informative guide to some of the more bizarre byways of the English language. If youve ever had trouble telling your etymology from your entomology, this is the book for you. Words, Words, Words probes lexicography, dialect, sexual practices, sport and social history to create a humorous and informative guide to some of the more bizarre byways of the English language. If youve ever had trouble telling your etymology from your entomology, this is the book for you. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Mushroom Man is the tale of a loner whose move to the mountains takes him on a self-styled odyssey mapped by hallucinogenic experiences. Sixties man, primal man, shaman, nowhereman, everyman: Mushroom Man enters the world of the forests, fungi and spiritual discovery on the trail of an ancient and holy mystery. As an unlikely communication opens up between mushroom.man and a curious psychologist, a strange life unfolds. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. PEGGY OBRIEN grew up in western Massachusetts, where she now lives with her husband. She teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. After graduating from Mount Holyoke College, she moved to Ireland and studied at University College Dublin and Trinity College, where she taught for the better part of twenty years. Her poems have appeared in publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including The Yale Review, The Southwest Review and Poetry Ireland Review. As well as being the editor of The Wake Forest Book of Irish Womens Poetry 1967-2000, she is the author of Writing Lough Derg: from Carleton to Heaney. She travels often in Ireland, where she has a daughter and three granddaughters. PEGGY OBRIEN grew up in western Massachusetts, where she now lives with her husband. She teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The 12 stories collected here represent some of the best work of Martin Healy's short career. They are set in the city, the suburbs and the country, and they are peopled by the young, the middle-aged and the old. The 12 stories collected here represent some of the best work of Martin Healy's short career. They are set in the city, the suburbs and the country, and they are peopled by the young, the middle-aged and the old. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Ten fascinating fictions featuring Joyce, Swift, O'Casey, Lady Gregory, Behan, and others Ten fascinating fictions featuring Joyce, Swift, O'Casey, Lady Gregory, Behan, and others Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In this lyrical and compelling collection of tales of the quotidian, John A. Ryan paints a sincere picture of Ireland, its environment and people. His delicate awareness of the world around him is reflected in every paragraph of these poetic and contemplative pieces. Each is infused with a sense of mindfulness, slowness and the almost divine nature of the small and the commonplace, reminding the reader of the sacredness of life at the heart of the universe. Some of these twenty prose pieces, scattered across rural and small-town Ireland, France and the Mediterranean littoral, have already appeared in the pages of the Irish Press. Most are hitherto unseen. They partake of Benedict Kiely, Donal Ryan and the deep traditions of Irish traditional rural literature. In this lyrical and compelling collection of tales of the quotidian, John A. Ryan paints a sincere picture of Ireland, its environment and people. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Willie Ryan returns to his home town in the great central plain of Ireland, having escaped from the insane asylum where he was committed, and unvisited, by his devout Catholic family for twenty-five years. The given pretext for his commitment was an attack on his sister-in-law, Mary Ryan, wife of his brother Michael. The true reason: an affair with a hedonistic young man who introduced him to art, literature and music. In this exposee; of the petty bourgeois snobbishness, hypocrisies and pretensions of the little grocers republic of 1950s Ireland, nothing evil happens as long as it is not seen. Through Willies piercing vision, we see the truth of his brother Michaels grief and remorse, his nephew Chriss fear of freedom, and the perceptiveness of asylum nurse Halloran. As Willie prepares for death, he agrees to a private family mass, setting the stage for a confrontation with father Mannix, one of those complicit in putting him away. Willie Ryan returns to his home town having escaped from the asylum where he was committed by his devout Catholic family for twenty-five years. The given pretext for his commitment was an attack on his sister-in-law, Mary Ryan. The true reason: an affair with a hedonistic young man who introduced him to art, literature and music. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…