For the Love of Ireland
A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers
Random House Publishing Group · Print & ebook · February 13, 2001
Welcome to the Ireland of its Writers Walk the streets of Dublin with Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Roddy Doyle.
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- Who it’s for
- Readers interested in Irish literature and its writers
- Themes
- Irish literature, Writers and native landscapes, Literary travel
- Genres
- Literary Travel, English, Irish & Scottish Collections, Ireland Travel
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Welcome to the Ireland of its Writers Walk the streets of Dublin with Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Roddy Doyle. Contemplate the wild glens of Wicklow with John Millington Synge and Seamus Heaney. Wander the thrilling Cliffs of Moher with Wallace Stevens. Visit antic Limerick with Frank McCourt; mysterious Coole Park with Lady Gregory; breathtaking Sligo with William Butler Yeats; wild Donegal with Brien Friel; and hidden Clare with Edna O'Brien.
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No place has inspired more great literature than Ireland, which in each new generation gives birth to an astonishing number of poets, storytellers, and dramatists. For the literary pilgrim to arrive, book in hand, at the pub where Joyce set a scene or the mountain where Yeats imagined a myth is to uncover fresh meaning in the works of writers in love with their native landscape. In For the Love of Ireland, Susan Cahill offers the jewels of Irish literature. Each selection is followed by traveler's advice on how to find and fully experience the place that's about. Whether you take this book with you to Ireland or savor it in your armchair, you will be enriched, ennobled, and entertained by writers of remarkable range and at the top of their form.
Who it’s for
- Readers interested in Irish literature and its writers
- Travelers seeking literary connections to Irish places
Where it sits
| Literary Travel | 68% |
|---|---|
| Ireland Travel | 67% |
| English, Irish & Scottish Collections | 50% |
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Publisher categories
- English, Irish & Scottish Collections
- Ireland Travel
- Travel Writing
- Authors
- Susan Cahill
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- February 13, 2001
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Irish literature · Writers and native landscapes · Literary travel
- Reading lane
- English, Irish & Scottish Collections