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The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats 20 reviews
William Butler Yeats
Scribner, 1996
Great poet, great work, amazing compilation!
+ A wonderful poet!
+ Great poems, poor paper.
+ Awesome Collection
+ Yeats, one of the greatest
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Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics) 16 reviews
Oscar Wilde
HarperCollins UK, 2003
If you love Wilde, you MUST own this book!
+ Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics)
+ Has it all.
+ The Best of Wilde
+ This compilation complete, well printed, top 10 library purchase!
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Ulysses 395 reviews
James Joyce
IndyPublish, 2002
Ten Reasons to Re-read Ulysses
+ Amazon Recommends I: James Joyce's Ulysses
+ Mount Everest for Readers
1. When you tried it in college, it was a task, a challenge, an intellectual mountain to climb, a test of your literary mettle. Perhaps if you read it apart from any course, as I did, you felt you failed.
2. In the intervening time you've read perhaps hundreds of Modernist and post-modernist ...
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Melmoth the Wanderer (Penguin Classics)14 reviews
Charles Robert Maturin
Penguin Classics, 2001
THIS BOOK IS THE GRANDFATHER OF POE, MARY SHELLEY, BRAM STOKER, JOYCE AND EVEN DICKENS WITH GREAT INTRO BY SAGE
+ This book is a hoot
+ Rewarding
+ Melmoth the Wanderer: Most Unique Gothic Novel -- and Not the Easiest to Read
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Great Irish Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)1 review
Maria Edgeworth, William Carleton, ...
Dover Publications, 2005
Synopsis
"This collection of thirteen captivating tales by Irish authors illustrates both traditional and modern approaches to the Celtic art of storytelling. Spanning two centuries, it features stories by Maria Edgeworth and William Carleton from the beginning of Irish prose fiction in English; retellings ...
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Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics)106 reviews
James Joyce
Oxford University Press, USA, 2001
Great Vignettes Of Dublin Life and A Great way to introduce yourself to James Joyce
+ INCLUDES "The Dead"
+ Irish Stew
Admittedly Joyce's better known works can seem quite daunting to the uninitiated but here in these short character sketches a reader can begin to understand what all fuss is about and enjoy some wonderfully written short stories in the bargain.
The stories are consistently good and from the very ...
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The Irish Republican Army (Inside the World's Most Infamous Terrorist Organizations) 2 reviews
Susie Derkins
Rosen Publishing Group, 2002
A very basic easy explanasion of the troubles
Even though amazon says that this book is geared for children it is a good book for anyone to read it gives a basic timeline and description of the troubles in northern ireland as the title implies it is more from the irish catholics point of view. Starts from around the 1200,s to the signing of ...
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The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore1 review
W. B. Yeats
Dover Publications, 2004
Faerie Folklore of a Shadowy Ireland of Celtic Mysteries !
In Celtic Twilight, originally published in 1902, Yeats recites several accounts of encounters with the faerie folk and with the people of Ireland of the time which gives us insight into Irish folklore, myth and legend.
Yeats associates poetry with religious ideas and sentiment. And, I believe ...
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Repossessions: Selected Essays on the Irish Poetic Heritage (Literature)
Sean O'Tuama
Cork University Press, 1995
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Handbook For Volunteers Of The Irish Republican Army: Notes On Guerrilla Warfare
Paladin Press, 1996
The original instruction manual for the active arm of the IRA, Handbook for Volunteers of the Irish Republican Army covers such topics as building up resistance centers, organizing and arming a guerrilla force, employing tactics of deception and attack, destroying enemy communications and gaining support of the populace.
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Irish Literature 1750-1900: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies)
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
Over the past twenty years, interest in Irish literature has risen dramatically across the globe. Irish Literature, 1750-1900: An Anthology presents in one volume the rich body of Irish writing between the Enlightenment and Modernism. Provides the full text of short plays, fiction, and poetry by a wide selection of prominent writers, including Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Maria Edgeworth, ...
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The Banshee: The Irish Death Messenger4 reviews
Patricia Lysaght
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1997
Scholarly and well documented without losing much readability
+ Great book, great fun.
+ Scholarly
+ Fascinating and readable
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A Path to Freedom5 reviews
Michael Collins
NuVision Publications, 2005
Michael Collins the Thinker
+ Michael Collins In His Own Words
+ Eye opening, informative reading
+ A good detailed read on the life of Michael Collins
+ A well-edited testament of wasted genius
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The Legends & Lands of Ireland1 review
Richard Marsh
Sterling/Penn, 2006
Wow - Great book
Got this book as part of a 4 for 3 offer and couldn't be more pleased. Hardcover book, with large, beautiful, sometimes breathtaking pictures of Ireland. I am planning a trip to Ireland this summer and reading up on the folklore and myths will certainly come in handy for my travels. Great offer, ...
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Banshee's Honor11 reviews
Shaylynn Rose
P.D. Publishing, Inc., 2007
Outstanding and Amazing Tale!
+ Extraordinary!!!
+ Got Fantasy? If not, get this!
+ A wonderful book.
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Michael Collins, Himself25 reviews
Chrissy Osborne
Mercier Press, 2003
Excellent Book
+ Michael Collins rules!
+ A good picture of revolutionary Ireland
+ Best book on Collins
+ Michael Collins: The Man who made Irelaand
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Irish Literature: A Reader (Irish Studies)1 review
Maureen O'Rourke Murphy, James MacKillop
Syracuse University Press, 1987
Irish Literature
Readers should understand that this is the ONLY overview of Irish Literature we have in print. It is a perfect text for American students, the best text there is to serve as the foundation text for any introductory Irish Studies course. The editors chose to forgo inclusion of literary works ...
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George Bernard Shaw's Plays (Norton Critical Editions)
George Bernard Shaw
W. W. Norton, 2002
This collection presents a cross-section of Shaw's most important theater work— Mrs. Warren's Profession, Man and Superman, Major Barbara , and Pygmalion . Each play is fully annotated. "Contexts and Criticism" features all-new material on the author and his work, from traditional critical readings to more theorized approaches, among them essays on Shaw's Fabianism and his alleged ...
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Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland (paperback) 10 reviews
Malachy McCourt
Running Press, 2008
This is a good read.
+ The little island to the west of England has brought more to the world than the world knows.
+ Just Because
McCourt brings Irish history to life. Makes reading history interesting. Now, where was he when I was in school?
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)239 reviews
James Joyce
Penguin Classics, 2003
Best Kindle edition of Joyce's "Portrait"
+ challenging but worth it
+ good intro to joyce
There are many editions of James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" available, but this is easily the best Kindle edition. The text is based on Chester Anderson's 1964 text. There are also a good number of annotations by Seamus Deane--fewer than in Anderson's Viking Critical ...
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