For the Love of Ireland
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For the Love of Ireland by Susan Cahill
Welcome to the Ireland of its WritersWalk 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.
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.
Susan Cahill, PhD, is the editor of several critically acclaimed anthologies, including Desiring Italy, For the Love of Ireland, Wise Women, The QPB Anthology of Women's Writing, and Women and Fiction. She has taught at Queens College and Fordham University and is the author of the novel Earth Angels and the co-author of A Literary Guide to Irleand with Thomas Cahill. She splits her time between New York City and Rome for portion of the year.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780345434197 |
| ISBN 10 | 0345434196 |
| Title | For the Love of Ireland |
| Author | Susan Cahill |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2001-02-13 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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