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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama by Shaun Richards 9780521008730
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.45The essays in this collection cover the whole range of Irish drama from the late nineteenth-century melodramas which anticipated the rise of the Abbey Theatre to the contemporary Dublin of theatre... -
Crossing Highbridge: A Memoir of Irish America by Maureen Waters 9780815606826
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.18An evocotive tale of coming to womanhood in the disorienting 1960s-a girl in the world of nuns and the Holy Ghost-but on a deeper level, this is a story of a woman who has suffered unimaglnable loss... -
The Poems by W. B. Yeats 9781857151039
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States's senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that nation has yet... -
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw 9780713679953
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.29"There are two things necessary to salvation ...money and gunpowder" Major Barbara, Bernard Shaw's story of the conversion contest between the arms manufacturer Andrew Undershaft and his daughter,... -
Poems by William Butler Yeats 9781857157116
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States's senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that nation has yet... -
Beyond Realism: Experimental and Unconventional Irish Drama since the Revival by Joan FitzPatrick Dean 9789042039193
Booksplease Price: £73.65When W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory set out in 1897 to create an Irish theatre, they expressed their openness to dramatic experimentation. However, the Abbey Theatre that was their legacy increasingly... -
Gerald O'Donovan: A Life: 1871-1942 by John F. Ryan
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £83.35This is the first full-length study of the life and work of novelist Gerald O'Donovan (1871-1942), a Catholic priest and social and cultural activist who, having abandoned the priesthood, became a... -
Home Place, Heart Place: Journeys around Ireland by R J O’Donnell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78This travelogue moves along by Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way, by the Burren, a land of strange beauty that inspired Tolkien, by the ruins of remotely-placed monastic shrines and chanting monks... -
The Irish Dramatic Revival 1899-1939 by Anthony Roche 9781408175286
Booksplease Price: £32.38The Irish Dramatic Revival was to radically redefine Irish theatre and see the birth of Ireland's national theatre, the Abbey, in 1904. From a consideration of such influential precursors as... -
Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play by Alexandra Poulain 9781349949625
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book discusses Irish Passion plays (plays that rewrite or parody the story of the Passion of Christ) in modern Irish drama from the Irish Literary Revival to the present day. It offers... -
Tales from the Emerald Isle and Other Green Shores: Classic Irish Stories by Michael P. Quinlin 9781493007646
Booksplease Price: £12.17Explore what it means to be Irish with this compelling and uncommon collection of stories. Featuring both famous authors and forgotten ones, these twenty literary gems offer a colorful... -
Shakespeare's Tragic Imagination by Nicholas Grene 9780333668641
Booksplease Price: £45.31The world of Macbeth, with its absolutes of good and evil, seems very remote from the shifting perspectives of Antony and Cleopatra, or the psychological and political realities of Coriolanus. Yet... -
Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899-1949 by Paul Murphy 9780230536838
Booksplease Price: £46.28Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899-1949 offers a theoretically innovative reconsideration of drama produced in the Irish Renaissance, as well as an engagement with non-canonical drama in the... -
Irish Culture and The People: Populism and its Discontents by Seamus O'Malley 9780192858412
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.52This book argues that populism has been a shaping force in Irish literary culture. Populist moments and movements have compelled authors to reject established forms and invent new ones. Sometimes, as... -
Transatlantic Renaissances: Literature of Ireland and the American South by Kathryn Stelmach Artuso 9781611494341
Booksplease Price: £85.65The impulses that fired the Southern Literary Renaissance echoed the impetus behind the Irish Literary Revival at the turn of the twentieth century, when Ireland sought to demonstrate its cultural... -
Gerald O'Donovan: A Life: 1871-1942 John F. Ryan 9781836243908
Booksplease Price: £42.53This is the first full-length study of the life and work of novelist Gerald O'Donovan (1871-1942), a Catholic priest and social and cultural activist who, having abandoned the priesthood, became a... -
Gender, Performance, and Authorship at the Abbey Theatre by Elizabeth Brewer Redwine 9780192896346
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.92Gender, Performance, and Authorship at the Abbey Theatre argues for a reconsideration of authorship at the Abbey Theatre. The actresses who performed the key roles at the Abbey contributed original... -
A Night in the Catacombs: Fictional Portraits of Ireland's Literati by David M. Kiely 9781874675617
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99In this gathering of ten stories, beginning and ending over Dublin's River Poddle, David M Kiely merges history with fiction to illuminate mysteries that have baffled literary scholars for... -
Sara Allgood's Memories: Untold Stories of the Abbey Theatre and Early Hollywood by Elizabeth Brewer Redwine 9780192867100
Booksplease Price: £77.78Sara Allgood, Abbey Theatre actress, Hollywood contract player, Inghinidhe na hEireann member, and early film performer, wrote this autobiography, entitled Memories, towards the end of her life,... -
Folklore and the Fantastic in Twelve Modern Irish Novels by Marguerite Quintelli-Neary 9780313304903
Booksplease Price: £61.05Ireland has a rich mythological tradition that stretches back for centuries, and much of this folklore tells tales of the fantastic. During the Irish Renaissance, authors such as William Butler Yeats... -
Modern Irish Theatre by Mary Trotter
Booksplease Price: £19.71Analysing major Irish dramas and the artists and companies that performed them, Modern Irish Theatre provides an engaging and accessible introduction to twentieth-century Irish theatre: its origins,... -
The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany 9781513282800
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.71The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924). Having established himself as a bestselling author of short fiction, Dunsany published The King of Elfland's Daughter, his second novel. Recognized as a... -
Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley by Lord Dunsany 9781513282794
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.71Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley (1922). Having established himself as a bestselling author of short fiction, Dunsany published Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley, his first novel... -
Theatre and Nationalism in 20th-Century Ireland by Robert O'Driscoll 9781487585525
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Great moments of theatrical achievement have often coincided with moments of national excitement and tension. In Ireland, after the death of Parnell in 1891, cultural and political nationalists had... -
The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany 9781513134451
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.52The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924). Having established himself as a bestselling author of short fiction, Dunsany published The King of Elfland's Daughter, his second novel. Recognized as a... -
Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995: A Research and Production Sourcebook by William W. Demastes 9780313288050
Booksplease Price: £66.89Irish playwrights such as Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, and John Millington Synge have made enormous contributions to world drama. This reference provides detailed entries for 32 Irish... -
Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley Lord Dunsany 9781513134444
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley (1922). Having established himself as a bestselling author of short fiction, Dunsany published Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley, his first novel... -
The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany 9781513299426
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.65The Book of Wonder (1912) is a short story collection by Lord Dunsany. Published at the height of his career, The Book of Wonder would influence such writers as J. R. R. Tolkein, Ursula K. Le Guin,... -
Irish Literature in Transition, 1880-1940: Volume 4 by Marjorie Elizabeth Howes
Booksplease Price: £116.40The years between 1880 and 1940 were a time of unprecedented literary production and political upheaval in Ireland. It is the era of the 1916 Easter Rising, the Irish Revival, and a time when many... -
Modern Irish Theatre by Mary Trotter 9780745633428
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Analysing major Irish dramas and the artists and companies that performed them, Modern Irish Theatre provides an engaging and accessible introduction to twentieth-century Irish theatre: its origins,... -
Time and the Gods by Lord Dunsany 9781513299440
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.65Time and the Gods (1906) is a short story collection by Lord Dunsany. Published at the beginning of his career, Time and the Gods, a sequel to The Gods of Pegana (1905), would influence such writers... -
The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories by Lord Dunsany 9781513299464
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.65The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (1908) is a short story collection by Lord Dunsany. Published at the beginning of his career, The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories-which features the... -
The Gods of Pegana by Lord Dunsany 9781513299433
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.65The Gods of Pegana (1905) is a short story collection by Lord Dunsany. Published at the beginning of his career, The Gods of Pegana would influence such writers as J. R. R. Tolkein, Ursula K. Le... -
Poets and the Peacock Dinner: The Literary History of a Meal by Lucy McDiarmid 9780198722786
Booksplease Price: £48.90On January 18, 1914, seven male poets gathered to eat a peacock. W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, the celebrities of the group, led four lesser-known poets to the Sussex manor house of the man they were... -
A Dreamer's Tale Lord Dunsany 9781513299457
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.88A Dreamer's Tales (1910) is a short story collection by Lord Dunsany. Published at the height of his career, A Dreamer's Tales would influence such writers as J. R. R. Tolkein, Ursula K. Le Guin, and... -
Synge: Complete Plays by J. M. Synge 9780413485205
Booksplease Price: £26.90A re-issue of the collected plays by one of Ireland's most celebrated writers In The Shadow of the Glen an old man tests his wife's commitment by feigning death; Riders to the Sea is inspired by... -
Bram Stoker and the Late Victorian World by Matthew Gibson 9781802070316
Booksplease Price: £36.42This collection places the fiction of Bram Stoker in relation to this life, career and status as a late Victorian. It centres on various aspects of his interests and career, such as politics, the... -
Esther Waters by George Moore
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63Esther Waters (1894) is a novel by George Moore. Considered his best novel, it was an immediate critical and commercial success, and has since been adapted several times for theater, film, and... -
Confessions of a Young Man by George Moore 9781513133782
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Confessions of a Young Man (1888) is a memoir by George Moore. Originally written in French, it is a record of his life in Paris as a young man with money and dreams to spare. Controversial for its... -
W. B. Yeats, A Life I: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914 by R. F. Foster 9780192880857
Booksplease Price: £40.01In the first authorized biography of W. B. Yeats for over 50 years, Roy Foster brings new light to one of the most complex and fascinating lives of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century...