For almost two decades Francey Sullivan has fantasized about his absent actor-father, George Gallagher. The urge to contact his father becomes an obsession. When he finall...
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Бестселлеры в Ирландии 1930-2007
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Olga _Бестселлеры в Ирландии 1930-2007
A saga of the struggle between hard-living farmers and the Church, The Bodhran Makers is set in rural Ireland in the 1950s. The Bodhran (pronounced bough-rawn), makers of ...
On Another Man’s Wound', its title taken from an old Ulster proverb, ‘It’s easy to sleep on another man’s wound’, was first published in 1936 and has become the classic ac...
Жизнь на островах Бласкет не менялась столетиями, что бы там ни бурлило в остальной Европе, а люди хранили фольклорные и бытовые традиции, а также живой ирландский язык бе...
Tailor and Ansty was banned soon after its first publication in 1942 and became the subject of much bitter controversy. It has become a modern Irish classic, promising to ...
Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980’s, Cal tells the story of a young Catholic man living in a Protestant area. For Cal, some choices are devastatingly simple: he can ...
The sea is slowly eating into the land and the hill with the old watchtower has completely disappeared. The nearest house has crumbled and fallen into the sea. It is Irela...
by Frank O'Connor (Selections)
In his introduction to this collection, Frank O'Connor, himself a distinguished short story writer, emphasizes the richness of the short ...
Four women - Paula, Jennifer, Brenda and Rachel. All at a crossroads in their lives. All with difficult choices to make. All badly in need of a holiday.
PAULA: Beautiful,...
Вам нравятся Джеймс Джойс и Сэмюэль Беккет? Оба гения восторгались произведениями своего соотечественника Флэнна О’Брайена (1911–1966).
Блестящая комическая сатира на ...
The author of Desperadoes and Cowboys and Indians directs his acid humour upon contemporary Irish life at home and abroad. The result is a headlong, love-struck, end-of-mi...
Fergal Keane is one of the BBC's best known foreign correspondents. His latest work for Radio 4 was Letter to Daniel, an emotional message to his newborn son.
O'Sullivan's memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited Gaelic-speaking island off the Atlantic coast of Ireland. The only book I have ever reviewed w...
'One of the most compulsive and moving autobiographies I have ever read...' The Cork Examiner 'A powerful, passionate and often bitter account of life in Ireland from the ...
A man's mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn - poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the responsibility of family, farm, poet...
George Otto Simms, a world-renowned authority on the Book of Kells, reveals the mysteries hidden in this magnificent manuscript. He introduces the monks who made the book ...
<p>История, действие которой разворачивается в маленьком ирландском городке в начале шестидесятых, рассказывает о том, как домашние проблемы заставляют школьника Фрэнсиса ...
A beautifully written Hitchcockian thriller, full of suspense and intrigue. Somewhere in an unnamed Eastern bloc country, someone is out to silence Cardinal Bem. Is it the...