Dogs Enjoy The Morning

Benedict Kiely

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

In the aftermath of the English Civil War, the Restoration overturned England's medieval outlook and a new way of looking at the world allowed the genius of Isaac Newton (b. 1642) and his contemporaries to flourish. This book sets Newton's life and work against this fabulous intellectual rebirth.: among his friends and contemporaries were Samuel Pepys, John Evelyn the eccentric antiquarian, the astronomers Edmund Halley and John Flamsteed, and Christopher Wren. They were all in the forefront of founding the Royal Society and their aims were nothing less than to examine the whole field of scientific knowledge.

Aerofilms Book of Ireland from the Air

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Letter to Peachtree (Methuen Modern Fiction)

Short Stories & Anthologies

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

Benedict Kiely is one of Ireland s leading modem novelists. With The Cards of the Gambler he holds the reader as only a great story-teller can, weaving the ordinary and everyday with the gleaming threads of Irish folklore into the deep pattern of a modem Faust. It is a story of a Doctor who loses everything gambling and thinks he is damned; who meets God in one pub and Death in another, where a pact is made ...

Cards of the Gambler

Irish University Press

God's Own Country

Contemporary

Minerva

A comic novel set in Cosmona, a fictitious village somewhere in Ireland, peopled by curious characters like: The doctor and his plump dusky-skinned wife, secretly being watched by Gabriel Rock, the peeping Tom with one good eye... The shell-shocked chaplain who stalks through the village with three hounds close at heel like the legendary Fionn MacCool... Cathy Hanafin, who can only drink red wine, and her husband Whispering Christy...

Dogs Enjoy the Morning

Humor & Satire

Wolfhound Pr

A Journey to the Seven Streams and Other Stories by Benedict Kiely. 1977 mass market paperback published by Poolbeg Press, Dublin.

A Journey to the Seven Streams and Other Stories

Poolbeg Press

Proxopera: A novel

When violent men intrude on his home by the lake Granda Binchey is forced to deliver a bomb while his family are held hostage. As Binchey travels through the countryside he reflects on the past, his family and everything that he values, all that is now threatened.

Proxopera

Literary

Turnpike Books

Book 9781068609404

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Yeats' Ireland An Illustrated Anthology

Yeats' Ireland: An illustrated anthology

W.B. Yeats

Aurum Press Ltd

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