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  • Small World

    Ireland, 1798–2018

    by Seamus Deane ...
    Seamus Deane was one of the most vital and versatile authors of our time. Small World presents an unmatched survey of Irish writing, and of writing about Irish issues, from 1798 to the present day. Elegant, polemical, and incisive, it addresses the political, aesthetic, and cultural dimensions of several notable literary and historical moments, and monuments, from the island's past and present. ... Read more

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  • A Short History of Irish Literature

    by Seamus Deane ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1986, A Short History of Irish Literature combines the scholarship of exceptional range and depth with the power to persuade us to read authors we have forgotten or neglected, and to re-read sympathetically those we have insensitively undervalued or dismissed.From the earliest Gaelic poetry to Seamus Heaney and John Montague, from O Bruadair to O’Casey, Professor Deane is an ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    Centennial Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    "I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning."James Joyce's supremely innovative fictional autobiography is also, in the apt phrase of the ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    A Short History of Irish Literature

    by Seamus Deane ...
    Narrated by John Keating ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 3 min

    First published in 1986, A Short History of Irish Literature combines the scholarship of exceptional range and depth with the power to persuade us to read authors we have forgotten or neglected, and to reread sympathetically those we have insensitively undervalued or dismissed.From the earliest Gaelic poetry to Seamus Heaney and John Montague, from O Bruadair to O'Casey, Professor Deane is an ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Finnegans Wake

    by James Joyce ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    A daring work of experimental, Modernist genius, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century, and the crowning glory of Joyce's life. The Penguin Modern Classics edition of includes an introduction by Seamus Deane'riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Year of the French

    Series series The Thomas Flanagan Trilogy
    In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard, followed by other French ships with the leader of the rebellion, Wolfe Tone. Briefly they triumphed, raising hopes among the impoverished local peasantry and gathering a group of supporters. But before ... Read more

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  • Death Of A King

    And Other Stories

    A gypsy king dies, and a group of villagers seek to save him from the dishonour of a pauper's grave. The dispute over the inheritance of a well-field becomes a struggle between the 'old stock' and the 'new people' for the very ownership of their town. A terrier pup reveals the truth of the relationship between a poacher and gamekeeper. A seasoned drinker subverts the 'dry' policy of a train ... Read more

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  • Death Of A King

    And Other Stories

    A gypsy king dies, and a group of villagers seek to save him from the dishonour of a pauper's grave. The dispute over the inheritance of a well-field becomes a struggle between the 'old stock' and the 'new people' for the very ownership of their town. A terrier pup reveals the truth of the relationship between a poacher and gamekeeper. A seasoned drinker subverts the 'dry' policy of a train ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Volume 2 of Thomas Flanagan’s Irish History TrilogyThe second volume of Thomas Flanagan’s best-selling Irish-history trilogy (which begins with The Year of the French and closes with The End of the Hunt) is set at the turn of the twentieth century, though its action revisits the thrilling revolutionary period of nearly half a century earlier. It is 1904 and the young historian Patrick Prentiss is ... Read more

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  • Heat and Dust

    A Novel

    The Booker Prize–winning novel—intertwining the narratives of two women, past and present, and their relationships to India—from the novelist, short story writer, and two–time Academy Award–winning screenwriter Ruth Prawer JhabvalaPartly set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her ... Read more

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  • A Legacy

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