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A Literary Tour of Ireland Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Healy, Elizabeth (Author)

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 ISBN: 0863277314     ISBN-13: 9780863277313
Publisher: Wolfhound Press (IE)
OUR PRICE: $19.51  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: May 2002
* Out of Print *

Annotation: The author travels twenty routes on her all-Ireland circuit profiling many of the major figures of Irish literature and writing about those places in Ireland most closely associated with them.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Europe - Ireland
- Travel | Museums, Tours, Points Of Interest
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 820.994
LCCN: 95106141
Physical Information: 0.83" H x 7.68" W x 9.63" L (2.20 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Cultural Region - Ireland
Features: Illustrated
 
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Publisher Description:
First published in 1995, this is a journey around Ireland's literary landscape. Elizabeth Healy has travelled twenty routes on her all-Ireland circuit. Visiting monastery and mountain range, holy well and mansion house, the hidden Ireland and its public face, she leads us from Synge's Wicklow and O'Connor's Cork through Kerry's old and new traditions, all along the western seaboard, out to Liam O'Flaherty's Aran islands. Rekindling the lyric mood with Yeats at Knocknarea, the reader will discover the Donegal of Peader O'Donnell, Derry of the playwrights, Heaney's Mossbawn, Ben Kiely's Tyrone. Via Belfast into Antrim's glens in the company of the Brontes, Macneice, Hewitt, Carson - a host of voices; and reenact the tale of The Tain. The youthful villages of Goldsmith, Lavin, Kavanagh, Edgeworth, McGahern and others prepare us for Dublin's myriads of literary streets and fictions. With Wilde, Shaw and Swift, Ocasy, Joyce and Beckett - pouring words upon cityscapes, and finally entering the Liffey to complete the journey.
 
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