Fiction Ireland
Fiction Ireland
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 Colm Toibin The Blackwater Lightship Picador Paperback LGBT Gay Fiction Ireland  US $4.74
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 Rebels of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd TPB Large Softcover Historical Fiction US $4.99
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The Secrets of Nine Irish Sons -- II The Rose Oisín
The Secrets of Nine Irish Sons is an epic, consisting of two books, with a final third that is in the works. The first volume is subtitled "The Beginning" and the second, "The Rose Oisín." The stories follow a large fictional family in Aghadoe, Ireland that in today's world is almost extinct. But in the world I grew up in, large families, especially Irish families, were many, and great grist for a child's imagination. There were always secrets! And in the old days, when there were secrets, they were typically gossiped about at the kitchen table by the adults---children were not invited, but often couldn't resisting hiding out close enough to eavesdrop.
I didn't understand everything I overheard, but I recognized the degree of emotion and interest---the family' tribunal and their condescending tones, whispers, and laughter were irresistible. In those days, any deviant behavior was discussed from every point of view and described in obscure sesquipedalianisms---supposedly beyond the vocabulary of children.
What was most fascinating about those conversations were the vacillating perspectives that would emerge after each emotion or shocking act was revealed ---"I don't know why she would put up with that?" one would whisper and then lots of ideas would follow on what everyone guessed about the victim's knowledge or the predator's circumstances. It was a wonderful time to learn about life, and a blessing when one sees the extreme and borderline criminal misbehavior on today's reality shows that children watch without adult commentary or learned supervision.
In my novels, the family reigns supreme. Commitments to take care of family members aren't dismissed by unfortunate circumstances, boredom, anger, rejection, loneliness, or hard times. Dreams of a better life are just that---dreams. Desires, ambitions, faults, mistakes, regrets---and every accompanying emotion are held inside. They are things that require personal growth, change, persistence, strong family intervention, discipline, or minimally, are stored away until or unless more advantageous moments emerge. These are things that are predominantly Irish and in our modern society of self-indulgence are often dismissed as emotionally unhealthy.
So while The Secrets of Nine Irish Sons' books are not unlike typical spy or mystery novels, they are wrapped in a great deal of mental discourse, and each machination reveals the deep sources of internal pain or expectant glory within each individual's personal destination.
For example, one of the son's secrets is his passionate admiration for his brothers who he feels are smarter, better looking, physically stronger, and far more successful [and desirable to women] than he is or ever will be---a mere low-wage Latin school teacher in a parochial school. One has to imagine a Matt Damon-like character---a young man who smiles and aims to please and yet shies away from the spotlight. None of his brothers would ever suspect that Teddy feels he is not their equal or that they are in any way superior. Writing about the quiet torments of this young adult who is still seeking a way to prove himself to his family is an example of many of the internal challenges we all know. For Teddy, he continues to use the childhood skills he developed learning Latin conjugations to organize and memorize large amounts of clues that the rest of the family does not keep up with, as if it is his personal responsibility to do what he does best. His continuous ambition to be something more and yet, continue on the same road he has always been on is one of the mysteries of life that we all experience. As Joyce said, "We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves." Despite his insecurities, like most of us, he continues his trek towards his dreams without validation as if he will recognize some super hero change in himself. He will not, but his family will. And just as all secrets weirdly compound themselves, the recognition and praise they privately discuss about him is cached into new secrets.
That example is just one of many dozens of secrets weaved into the book's mysteries behind various criminal plots and strange behaviors. None can be explained fully, no more than one could understand why one human being is willing to save a stranger's life and yet another, will recklessly destroy a person's life out of unconscionable greed and selfishness. What is meant to happen is for the reader to meet up with him or herself on occasion and enjoy the coincidence.
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About the Author
Laura is retired from Emory University and living in Florida.
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Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement $99 This study of 'improving' fiction produced in Ireland in the 19th century demonstrates how this pamphlet literature shaped the mainstream literary culture. While uncovering previously neglected material, O'Connell also sheds new light on the work of Maria Edgeworth, Mary Leadbeater, William Carleton, Thomas Davis, J. M. Synge, W. B. Yeats, and others. - ;This is the first study of Irish improvement fiction, a neglected genre of nineteenth-century literary, social, and political history.Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement shows how the fiction of Mary Leadbeater, Charles Bardin, Martin Doyle, and William Carleton attempted to lure Irish peasants and landowners away from popular genres such as fantasy, romance, and 'radical' political tracts as well as 'high' literary and philosophical forms of enquiry. These writers. attempted to cultivate a taste for the didactic tract, an assertively realist mode of representation. Accordingly, improvement fiction laboured to demonstrate the value of hard work, frugality, and sobriety in a rigorously realistic idiom, representing the contentment that inheres in a plain social order free of. excess and embellishment. Improvement discourse defined itself in opposition to the perceived extremism of revolutionary politics and literary writing, seeking (but failing) to exemplify how both political discontent and unhappiness could be offset by a strict practicality and prosaic realism. This book demonstrates how improvement reveals itself to be a literary discourse, enmeshed in the very rhetorical abyss it sought to escape. In addition, the proudly liberal rhetoric of improvement is. shown to be at one with the imperial discourse it worked to displace. Helen O'Connell argues that improvement discourse is embedded in the literary and cultural mainstream of modern Ireland and has hindered the development of intellectual and political debate throughout this period. These issues are examined in chapters exploring the career of William Carleton; peasant 'orality'; educational provision in the post-Union period; the Irish language; secret society violence; Young Ireland nationalism; and the Irish Revival. - |
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Fiction $12.49 Fiction |
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Changing Ireland $130 During the past twenty-five years, Ireland has seen an explosion of women's fiction - hundreds of published works that reimagine the inherited literary traditions and the social contexts of women's lives. Changing Ireland examines women's use of historical fiction, exile literature, Northern war narratives, speculative fiction, and classic 'realism', and looks at the local Irish forms of international women's genres like the romance novel and feminist fiction. |
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Ireland $6 Ireland |
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The Brontes in Ireland or Facts Stranger Then Fiction $29.2 No Synopsis Available |
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Contemporary Irish Fiction $40 Recent years have witnessed an extraordinary growth in the richness and diversity of Irish fiction, with the publication of highly original and often challenging work by both new and established writers. Contemporary Irish Fiction provides an invaluable introduction to this exciting but largely uncharted area of literary criticism by bringing together twelve accessible, stimulating essays by critics from Ireland, Britain and North America. |
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Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland $40 At the time of the Irish Famine, novels by Dickens and Gaskell, and commentaries on the famine, introduced a new theory of individual expression, which gradually replaced the older ideas of political economy, and became the foundation for modern concepts of capitalism based on the desires of the individual consumer. |
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The Brontes In Ireland: Facts Stranger Than Fiction $25.98 No Synopsis Available |
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The Brontes in Ireland or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction $44.8 No Synopsis Available |
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Ann Ireland $63.73 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ann Ireland (born 1953) is a Canadian fiction author. Born in Toronto, Ontario, she studied at the University of British Columbia, from which she earned a BFA in creative writing in 1976. She is a past president of PEN Canada. She is presently based in Toronto and has recently taught fiction courses for Ryerson Universitys continuing education programme. Her 1985 novel A Certain Mr. Takahashi was the basis for the 1991 feature film The Pianist. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 64 Publication Date: 2011/02/26 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.02 x 0.15 inches |
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The Princes of Ireland $12.99 From the internationally bestselling author of London and Sarum -- a magnificent epic about love and war, family life and political intrigue in Ireland over the course of seventeen centuries. Like the novels of James Michener, The Princes of Ireland brilliantly interweaves engrossing fiction and well-researched fact to capture the essence of a place. Edward Rutherfurd has introduced millions of readers to the human dramas that are the lifeblood of history. From his first bestseller, Sarum , to the #1 bestseller London , he has captivated audiences with gripping narratives that follow the fortunes of several fictional families down through the ages. The Princes of Ireland , a sweeping panorama steeped in the tragedy and glory that is Ireland, epitomizes the power and richness of Rutherfurd’s storytelling magic. The saga begins in pre-Christian Ireland with a clever refashioning of the legend of Cuchulainn, and culminates in the dramatic founding of the Free Irish State in 1922. Through the interlocking stories of a wonderfully imagined cast of characters -- monks and noblemen, soldiers and rebels, craftswomen and writers -- Rutherfurd vividly conveys the personal passions and shared dreams that shaped the character of the country. He takes readers inside all the major events in Irish history: the reign of the fierce and mighty kings of Tara; the mission of Saint Patrick; the Viking invasion and the founding of Dublin; the trickery of Henry II, which gave England its foothold on the island in 1167; the plantations of the Tudors and the savagery of Cromwell; the flight of the “Wild Geese”; the failed rebellion of 1798; the Great Famine and the Easter Rebellion. With Rutherfurd’s well-crafted storytelling, readers witness the rise of the Fenians in the late nineteenth century, the splendours of the Irish cultural renaissance, and the bloody battles for Irish independence, as though experiencing their momentous impact firsthand. Tens of millions of North Americans claim Irish descent. Generations of people have been enchanted by Irish literature, and visitors flock to Dublin and its environs year after year. The Princes of Ireland will appeal to all of them -- and to anyone who relishes epic entertainment spun by a master. From the Hardcover edition. |
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Reading Irish-American Fiction $85 Analyzes five novels, all published between 1989 and 1999, in which the main characters are 'hyphenated people': Americans who are ancestrally joined to, yet realistically separated from, the Irish. This book explores why these characters think of themselves as Irish, though they have know little of Ireland or its people. |
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Patrick Harper (Fiction) $82.85 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Regimental Sergeant Major Patrick Harper is a fictional character created by Bernard Cornwell in the Sharpe series of novels.Harper is a large, fierceseeming man from Donegal, Ireland, recruited in the early years of the 19th Century into the British Army, and eventually the 95th Rifle Regiment.Harper and Sharpe are initially antagonists, as Harper leads a mutiny against Sharpes command and conspires to murder him (Sharpes Rifles). Over the course of the series Harper becomes one of Sharpes closest friends and his reliable companion, sharing most of his exploits and rising in rank beside him to sergeant and regimental sergeantmajor. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 108 Publication Date: 2010/12/04 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.26 inches |
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The Rebels of Ireland (Unabridged) $25.03 Edward Rutherfurd's stirring account of Irish history, the Dublin Saga, concludes in this magisterial work of historical fiction.... |
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Science Fiction Writers from Northern Ireland : James White $7.62 No Synopsis Available |
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Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances and Folk-lore $29.2 No Synopsis Available |
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Non-Fiction Literature from Northern Ireland : Non-Fiction Writers from Northern Ireland, James Burke, Mark Pollock, Laurence Mckeown $8.1 No Synopsis Available |
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