<p>Told with gentle wit and charm, this first detective novel by a renowned Irish writer of children's and literary fiction was originally published in 1953 and was followed by two others before she gave up crime writing for good.</p>

Death at Crane's Court

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Dillon, Eilís

Mystery

Perennial / HarperCollins

<p>Portrays the trials and tribulations of Rebecca, Edward, and Andrew, three young people who leave England to cross the ocean and relocate in the harsh world of seventeenth-century colonial Massachusetts</p>

The Seekers

Children's Books

Puffin Books

The Wise Man on the Mountain;

Hamilton

Five Hundred (Antelope Books)

Hamish Hamilton

Blood Relations/a Superb Saga of a Family Caught Up in the Irish War of Independence

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Souvenir Pr Ltd

Dillon, Eilís. Across the bitter sea. A novel. London [etc.], Hodder and Stoughton, 1974. 23cm. [1],571 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Eilís Dillon (7 March 1920 - 19 July 1994) was an Irish author of 50 books. Her work has been translated into 14 languages. Dillon was the third of five children of Professor Thomas Dillon and his wife Geraldine née Plunkett, who was the sister of Joseph Mary Plunkett. She was raised at Dangan House outside of Galway City before moving to the small fishing village of Barna. She attended the local primary school where she became proficient in Irish and gained an intimate knowledge of tradition in the Connemara. Dillon's family was involved in Irish revolutionary politics; her uncle Joseph Mary Plunkett was a signatory of the 1916 Proclamation and was executed after the Easter Rising. Educated by the Ursuline nuns in Sligo, she worked briefly in the hotel and catering trade. In 1940 she married Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, an academic from University College Cork and 17 years her senior. They had at least 3 children, including the Irish poet and Trinity College Dublin professor Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and her brother, Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, also a Trinity professor, who writes novels as Cormac Millar.Dillon's first books were in Irish including An Choill Bheo, published in 1948, Oscar agus an Cóiste sé nEasóg in 1952 and Ceol na coille in 1955. After the success of The Lost Island,published in 1952, she wrote almost exclusively in English. Most of her books were aimed at teen readers with themes of self-discovery and problem solving evident. In 1964 she moved to Rome due to her husband's poor health. While there she acted as adviser to International Commission on English in the Liturgy. She returned to Cork with her husband in 1969 where he died the following year. She contin..

Across the bitter sea;: A novel

Hodder and Stoughton

Blood Relations

The sequel to Across the Bitter Sea, Blood Relations chronicles the painful birth of twentieth-century Ireland. "Eilís Dillon has recaptured all the essence of the time when a nation [was] struggling back into the light... It is a very wide canvas and all the major figures of the day are part of the story's background - De Valera, Michael Collins, Pearse and Connolly, but Eilís Dillon has again shown her complete mastery of the art of telling a story and infusing it with the breath of life." (Cork Examiner)

Genre Fiction

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Set against the dramatic background of Ireland after the Great Famine, ACROSS THE BITTER SEA isthe turbulent'story of three passionate people: Samuel, the generous landlord, symbol of a dying generation; Morgan, the fiery rebel, his life dedicated to the fight for self-preservation; and Alice, the tempestuous, beautiful woman who loved one man and married another.

Across the Bitter Sea

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Eilis Dillon was born into the milieu that made the modern Irish Republic. She draws on layers of family histoiy to trace the nation's past, remembering much of her own life in the process. From the Victorian Dublin of her grandfather, Count Plunkett, and her poet uncle, Joseph Plunkett's part in the Easter Rising and its bitter aftermath, she moves to the beautiful but impoverished Galway of her childhood, to the Sligo where she went to convent boarding school, and to the intricacies of social life in wartime Cork. Eilis Dillon's deep knowledge of the Gaelic tradition gives her a special insight, and her writing glows with poetry, humour, understanding and an infectious love for her native land.From the proud city of Cork to the walls of Derry, from Killorglin's Puck Fair to the Galway Races, Eilis Dillon's prose is matched and complemented by the brilliantly evocative photographs of Tom Kennedy, whose marvellous eye for detail and brooding sense of place contribute a unique visual dimension to this most compelling of books about Ireland by one of the country's most distinguished novelists.

Inside Ireland

Fawcett

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