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Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Books Ireland
Author: 'The Wee Donegal' Revisited
Author: Robert RobothamPublisher:
ISBN: 9781904242024
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A second album of colour photographs of County Donegal Railways including some rare views from the early 1950s. The book follows a thematic approach, focusing on principal stations and on locomotives, railcars and carriages.
The English Urban Renaissance Revisited
Author: John HinksPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527522814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
A quarter of a century ago, Professor Peter Borsay identified a specifically urban phenomenon of cultural revival that took root in the late seventeenth century, leading to the flowering of a wide range of cultural forms and the extensive remodelling of the townscape along classically inspired lines. Borsay called this the ‘English Urban Renaissance’. These essays, including Borsay’s reflective and thought-provoking revisiting of his concept, offer a wide-ranging exploration of the continuing and still developing impact of the ‘English Urban Renaissance’ and investigate the wider impact of the concept beyond England. The essays reiterate the importance of provincial towns as hubs of economic, cultural and political activity and the strength and vitality of urban culture beyond the metropolis. They trace the development of urban culture over time in the light of the concept of ‘urban renaissance’, showing how urban townscapes and cultural life were transformed throughout the long eighteenth century. Together, they establish the continuing impact and importance of Borsay’s concept, demonstrate the breadth of its influence in the UK and beyond, and point to possible areas of research for the future.
The Railway Magazine
Author: The Wee Rock Discography
Author: Martin StrongPublisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 9780862416218
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Based on Martin Strong's The Great Rock Discography, this is a compact version featuring 500 of the most influential figures in the history of popular music. It expands on the format of the previous title, in which full track listings for all albums, b-sides for all singles, labels, UK and US chart positions, band members, recommended listening, style analysis, band histories - from original line-ups to dissolution, solo projects, potted biographies, a pricing guide for rare albums and release dates are given.
The Northern Fiddler
Author: Allen FeldhamPublisher: Music Sales Corporation
ISBN: 9780825602931
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Brian Friel
Author: Ulf DantanusPublisher: ACTA Universitatis Gothoburgensis
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Trinity
Author: Leon UrisPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0552105651
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Ever since the publication of Battle Cry more than thirty years ago, Leon Uris has continued to write bestselling novels. Each displays all of the author's skill, for he is a writer at his best when the subject seems almost too big to handle. One of the most popular storytellers of the twentieth century, more than 5,500,000 copies of his novels have been sold in Corgi alone. In Trinity, he writes passionately about the tragedy of Ireland - from the famine of the 1840s to the Easter Rising of 1916, a powerful and stirring novel about the loves and hates, the defeats and triumphs of three families - a terrible and beautiful drama spanning more than half a century.
Gothenburg Studies in English
Author: The Loved One
Author: Evelyn WaughPublisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316216488
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
"A work of art as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done" (New Yorker), The Loved One is Evelyn Waugh's cutting satire of 1940s California and the Anglo-American cultural divide. Following the death of a friend, the poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday--and Dennis gets drawn into a bizarre love triangle with Aimée Thanatogenos, a naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr. Joyboy, a master of the embalmer's art. Waugh's dark and savage satire depicts a world where reputation, love, and death cost a very great deal.