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Languages : en
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Children of the Salmon and other Irish folktales
Author: Children of the Salmon and Other Irish Folk Tales
Author: Eileen O'FaoláinPublisher:
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Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Collection of timeless stories of Irish fairy lore, wonder and the supernatural.
Children of the Salmon
Author: Eileen O'FaoláinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780907085768
Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Children of the Salmon and Other Irish Folktales
Author: Children of the Salmon and Other Irish Folktales. Selections and Transl. by Eileen O' Faolain. Ill. by Trina Hyman
Author: Eileen O'FaolainChildren of the Salmon and Other Irish Folktales. Selections and Translations by Eileen O'Faolain. Illustrated by Trina Hyman
Author: Eileen O'FaoláinThe Salmon of Knowledge
Author: Celina BuckleyPublisher: Starfish Bay Children's Books
ISBN: 9781760361631
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Children will enjoy the unique collage illustrations and an unexpected twist in this retelling of a traditional Irish legend about an old man seeking an enchanted fish that will give him all the knowledge in the world and a young boy hoping to become a great warrior.
A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature
Author: Heather IngmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108654584
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
This book offers the first comprehensive survey of writing by women in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present day. It covers literature in all genres, including poetry, drama, and fiction, as well as life-writing and unpublished writing, and addresses work in both English and Irish. The chapters are authored by leading experts in their field, giving readers an introduction to cutting edge research on each period and topic. Survey chapters give an essential historical overview, and are complemented by a focus on selected topics such as the short story, and key figures whose relationship to the narrative of Irish literary history is analysed and reconsidered. Demonstrating the pioneering achievements of a huge number of many hitherto neglected writers, A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature makes a critical intervention in Irish literary history.
The Salmon of Knowledge
Author: Ann CarrollPublisher:
ISBN: 9781842235942
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
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To be the wisest person in the world, knowing absolutely everything, that was the aim of one man, Finnegas. All he had to do was catch and eat the Salmon of Knowledge.
Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century
Author: David PiercePublisher: Cork University Press
ISBN: 9781859182086
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1380
Book Description
With five Nobel Prize-winners, seven Pulitzer Prize-winners and two Booker Prize-winning novelists, modern Irish writing has contributed something special and permanent to our understanding of the twentieth century. Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century provides a useful, comprehensive and pleasurable introduction to modern Irish literature in a single volume. Organized chronologically by decade, this anthology provides the reader with a unique sense of the development and richness of Irish writing and of the society it reflected. It embraces all forms of writing, not only the major forms of drama, fiction and verse, but such material as travel writing, personal memoirs, journalism, interviews and radio plays, to offer the reader a complete and wonderfully varied sense of Ireland's contribution our literary heritage. David Pierce has selected major literary figures as well as neglected ones, and includes many writers from the Irish diaspora. The range of material is enormous, and ensures that work that is inaccessible or out of print is now easily available. The book is a delightful compilation, including many well known pieces and captivating "discoveries," which anyone interested in literature will long enjoy browsing and dipping into.