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The Last Day at Bowen's Court
The Last Day at Bowen's Court deals with the life of the Irish novelist, Elizabeth Bowen, her time in London during the Second World War and her 'reporting' on Irish neutrality for the Ministry of Information. At the centre of the novel is her Blitz love affair with the Canadian diplomat, Charles Ritchie, a wartime romance that inspired her most famous novel, The Heat of the Day, a gripping story about espionage and loyalty that became a best-seller. The novel is told from the point of view of Bowen herself, and also from that of her lover Charles Ritchie, her husband Alan Cameron and Ritchie's wife Sylvia. It is set in wartime London, Dublin and North Cork, and deals with the private and public conflicts of love and of national identity in a time of upheaval and liberation. At the centre of the novel is a portrait of Elizabeth Bowen, one of Ireland's most influential writers.
Cissie's Abattoir
A memoir that serves as both a record of the author's hometown and a humorous remembrance of his entertaining, fashion-conscious, poker-playing Grandmother.
Jane Wilde
This new book reclaims Jane Wilde as a significant poet, scholar, essayist, translator and social commentator. / Jane Wilde (1826 - 1898) - née Jane Francesca Elgee - was the mother of Oscar Wilde, but Eibhear Walshe shows that she was a notable poet, translator, and political pamphlet writer in her own right. Born in Wexford, she contributed to The Nation under the name of 'Speranza' and issued a call to arms on behalf of the Young Irelanders. She translated Lamartine's French Revolution (1850) and Dumas's Glacier Love (1852). Her salon with her husband Sir William Wilde was a key centre for artists, academics, and visiting dignitaries. Lady Wilde moved to London after his death. / Highly ...
A Different Story
Colm Toibin published his first book in 1985 and in the three decades since has been a central voice within popular Irish cultural and intellectual discourse. Toibin is one of the most widely-read and critically respected of Irish contemporary novelists, both in Europe and in North America, and his fictions have justly earned him an international reputation and an ever-growing popularity. His use of many literary forms; the newspaper essay, the travel book, the historical study, reviews, broadcasts, best-selling novels and short stories all attest to his crucial influence on Irish public discourse and Irish identity. Eibhear Walshe presents here the only complete study of Toibin's writing life to date, drawing on the newly-opened Colm Toibin literary archive.
Elizabeth Bowen's Selected Irish Writings
This anthology of the Irish writings of the Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen gathers together, for the first time, her Irish writings including her lectures, essays, reviews and reports and includes an extensive introductory essay by the editor as well as annotations and a critical bibliography. These pieces chart her illuminating relationship with the new Irish state from her perspective as an Anglo-Irish novelist and provide an account of her life-long engagement with her own country from 1929 until the late 1960s.
Elizabeth Bowen
This innovative series meets the urgent need for comprehensive new accounts of Irish writing across the centuries which combine readability with critical authority and information with insight. Each volume addresses the whole range of a writer's work in the various genres, setting its vision of the world in biographical context and situating it within the intellectual, cultural and political currents of the age, in Ireland and the wider world. This series will prove indispensable for students and specialists alike. Book jacket.
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks
The Irish Times literary editor Fintan O'Toole selects 100 artworks to narrate a history of Ireland.
Ireland in Proximity
Drawing on a variety of disciplinary and theoretical approaches, this impressive collection of essays makes an innovative contribution to current, and often contentious, debate within Irish studies.
Slammerkin
Discover the stunning historical novel from the award-winning author of Learned by Heart - perfect for fans of Affinity, Alias Grace and The Confessions of Frannie Langton Set in London and Monmouth in the late 1700s, this is an extraordinary novel about Mary Saunders, the young daughter of a poor seamstress. Mary hungers greedily for fine clothes and ribbons, as people of her class do for food and warmth. It's a hunger that lures her into prostitution at the age of thirteen. Mary is thrown out by her distraught mother when she gets pregnant and almost dies on the dangerous streets of London. Her saviour is Doll - a prostitute. Mary roams London freely with Doll, selling her body to all manner of 'cullies', dressed whorishly in colourful, gaudy dresses with a painted red smile. Faced with bad debts and threats upon her life she eventually flees to Monmouth, her mother's hometown, where she attempts to start a new life as a maid in Mrs Jones's house. But Mary soon discovers that she can't escape her past and just how dearly people like her pay for yearnings not fitting to their class in society...
The Diary of Mary Travers
It is April 1895 and Oscar Wilde is on trial in London at the Old Bailey, following his libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry, and faces ruin, public disgrace and imprisonment. In County Cork, a woman called Mary Travers is following the Wilde Trials in the newspapers, increasingly troubled by the growing public outcry. Mary Travers has her own secret, her hidden connection with Oscar Wilde and his parents, William and Jane, and dreads discovery and exposure. Unknown to those around her, in 1864, as a young woman, she had been the key figure in a notorious court case in Dublin, in which she sued Jane Wilde for libel, and the resulting scandal filled the newspapers for weeks. In this new novel, 'The Diary of Mary Travers,' this controversial case is re-imagined for the first time through the eyes of the central figure, Mary Travers.
