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Title:

QPB book of Irish literature / [edited by Kathy Kiernan ; additional material selected by Virginia Clerkin].

Publisher:

Quality Paperback Book Club,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

x, 947 p. : map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Irish literature.

Other Authors:

Kiernan, Kathy.

Notes:

Includes biographical notes on authors. SAU copy: Gift for the Timothy Walch Collection of Irish and Catholic Americana.

Contents:

Oscar Wilde / From A view of the present state of Ireland / George Bernard Shaw -- Brightness most bright / Aogán Ó Rathaille -- Furniture of a woman's mind ; Modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- Finnegan's wake ; Wearin' o' the green / Irish folk songs -- Sheridans. From Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph / Frances Sheridan -- Critic / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Carmilla / Sheridan Le Fanu -- Memories of Ulster / Caroline Blackwood -- From Irish melodies ; From The Fudge family in Paris / Thomas Moore -- On Thomas Moore ; Glance at the future destiny of Ireland / Thomas D'Arcy McGee -- Legend of Knockgrafton / T. Crofton Croker -- Famine year ; From Jail journal / John Mitchel -- Diamond lens / Fitz-James O'Brien -- Student who left college / Douglas Hyde -- Wildes. Fairy interference / William Wilde -- Priest's soul / Lady Wilde -- From The picture of Dorian Gray ; Phrases and philosophies for the use of the young ; Ballad of Reading Gaol / Oscar Wilde -- From Some experiences of an Irish R.M. / Somerville and Ross -- Clonmacnoise / T.W. Rolleston -- Only son of Aoife / Lady Gregory -- From Mrs. Warren's profession ; Oscar Wilde / George Bernard Shaw --
Dogs in the great glen / No second Troy ; Wild swans at Coole ; Second coming ; Leda and the swan ; Sailing to Byzantium ; Lapis Lazuli ; Long legged fly ; From Memoirs / Benedict Kiely -- Playboy of the Western world / J.M. Synge -- Hashish man / Lord Dunsany -- From Chamber music ; Portrait of the artist as a young man / James Joyce -- Proclamation of the Easter rising of 1916 / Thomas J. Clarke, et al. -- Salutation ; Immortality / AE -- From The informer / Liam O'Flaherty -- From Twenty years agrowing / Maurice O'Sullivan -- I wanna woman / Sean O'Casey -- From At swim two birds ; Bash in the tunnel / Flann O'Brien -- Mas Lomasneys ; My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor -- Demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen -- O'Faolains. Man who invented sin / Sean O'Faolain -- Pot of soothing herbs / Julia O'Faolain -- From The fire in the dust / Francis MacManus -- Dante ... Bruno. Vico.. Joyce ; Dante and the lobster ; From Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett -- James Joyce's world & letters of James Joyce / Louis MacNeice -- From Borstal boy / Brendan Behan -- Yellow beret / Mary Lavin -- Dogs in the great glen / Benedict Kiely --
From Four letters of love / Niall Williams. From An answer from Limbo / Brian Moore -- Lines written on a seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin ; To hell with commonsense ; In memory of my mother / Patrick Kavanagh -- Pill ; Subjection of women ; Sermon on Swift / Austin Clarke -- Beyond the pale / William Trevor -- Digging ; In gallarus oratory ; Tollund man ; Bog queen ; Skunk ; Artist ; Postscript / Seamus Heaney -- From The butcher boy / Patrick McCabe -- Word in edgewise / Colum McCann -- From Breakfast in Babylon / Elmer Martin -- From Four letters of love / Niall Williams.

ISBN:

9780965797498
096579749X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41937555

Locations:

AGPE046 -- Drake Public Library (Centerville)

58SX745 -- West Bend-Mallard High School (West Bend)