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  • Going Back

    by Eugene O'Brien ...
    Scobie Donoghue was once the king of the weekend. His twenties were spent working hard and playing harder. A lovable rogue, the lads wanted to be him and the girls wanted to be with him. But now, about to turn forty and returning to his small midlands hometown, Scobie is back in his childhood bed, single, burnt out and depressed. The life he thought he had left behind has moved on – but has he? ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Seamus Heaney as Aesthetic Thinker

    A Study of the Prose

    by Seamus Heaney as Aesthetic Thinker Eugene O'Brien ...
    Series series Irish Studies
    Seamus Heaney’s unexpected death in August 2013 brought to completion his body of work, and scholars are only now coming to understand the full scale and importance of this extraordinary career. The Nobel Prize–winning poet, translator, and playwright from the North of Ireland is considered the most important Irish poet after Yeats and, at the time of his death, arguably the most famous living ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances"

    The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney

    Edited by Eugene O'Brien ...
    The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances brings together sixteen of the most prominent scholars who have written on Seamus Heaney to examine the Nobel Prize winner’s later poetry from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives. While a great deal of attention has been devoted to Heaney’s early and middle poems—the Bog Poems in particular—this book focuses on the poetry collected in Heaney's ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seamus Heaney and the Art of Translation

    Edited by Eugene O'Brien, Ian Hickey ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Irish Literature
    Seamus Heaney and the Art of Translation is comprised of 11 chapters that examine the Nobel prize winning poet’s translations and that situate the works within a transnational perspective. The chapters focus on the broad and varied connections Heaney makes with writers from an Irish and European background. The book contains close readings of the poet’s associations and interest in exemplars such ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing

    Edited by Anne Fogarty, Eugene O'Brien ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field of Irish studies to explore the significance of twenty-first-century Irish writing and its flourishing popularity worldwide. Focusing on Irish writing published or performed in the twenty-first century, this volume explores genres, modes and styles of writing that are current, relevant and distinctive in today’s classrooms. Examining a ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Frontier of Writing

    A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose

    Edited by Ian Hickey, Eugene O'Brien ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Irish Literature
    The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose is the first collection of essays solely focused on examining the Nobel prize winning poet’s prose. The collection offers ten different perspectives on this body of work which vary from sustained thematic analyses on poetic form, the construction of identity, and poetry as redress, to a series of close readings of prose writing on poetic ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Reading Paul Howard

    The Art of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

    by Eugene O'Brien ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Irish Literature
    Reading Paul Howard: The Art of Ross O’Carroll Kelly offers a thorough examination of narrative devices, satirical modes, cultural context and humour in Howard’s texts.The volume argues that his academic critical neglect is due to a classic bifurcation in Irish Studies between high and popular culture, and it will use the thought of Pierre Bourdieu, Sigmund Freud, Mikhail Bakhtin and Jacques ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Heaven

    by Eugene O'Brien ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    I am getting nearer to something. The answer to the question. Who am I? A woman who leaves her husband very suddenly for an old lover and heads to a cottage in Kerry?I needed someone strong. Someone who would sweep me along. Keep me here. In this world. Not allow me to wander down below, and I wanted a child. I dearly wanted a child.Mairead and Mal are struggling to keep their marriage together. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis

    Edited by Andrew J. Auge, Eugene O'Brien ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Irish Literature
    Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis addresses what is arguably the most crucial issue of human history through the lens of late-twentieth and early twenty-first-century Irish poetry. The poets that it surveys range from familiar presences in the contemporary Irish literary canon – Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Paula Meehan, Moya Cannon – to lesser-known figures, such as the experimental ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Bridge Traffic Loading

    From Research to Practice

    Edited by Eugene OBrien, Andrzej Nowak, Colin Caprani ...
    There is considerable uncertainty about what level of traffic loading bridges should be designed for. Codes specify notional load models, generally to represent extreme levels of normal traffic, but these are often crude and have inconsistent levels of safety for different load effects. Over the past few decades, increasing quantities of reliable truck weight data has become available and it is ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • 'Getting the Words Right'

    A Festschrift in Honour of Eamon Maher

    Edited by Eugene O'Brien, Sarah Nolan Balen, Grace Neville ...
    Series Book 131 - Reimagining Ireland
    This book is a collection of essays written in honour of Eamon Maher. The essays all speak to issues which Eamon has worked on, so there are pieces focusing largely on the connections between Ireland and France across a range of political, cultural, historical, literary, theoretical, religious and linguistic influences. There are also essays on John McGahern, George Moore, regionalism and ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism

    From Galway to Cloyne and beyond

    by Eamon Maher, Eugene O'Brien ...
    This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into clerical sex abuse in that diocese in 2011. The young people awaiting the Pope’s address in Galway were entertained by two of Ireland’s most charismatic clerics, Bishop Eamon Casey and Fr Michael Cleary, both of whom were subsequently revealed to have been engaged in ... Read more

    $22.99 USD