Beginning with an exquisite love story-an ancient saga retold by Lady Gregory-and continuing with George Moore and the birth of the modern short story at the turn of the century, this highly representative collection includes both classic writers and contemporaries. It features the work of such preeminent literary figures as James Joyce, Sean O'Faolain, Mary Lavin, Frank O'Connor, and Liam O'Flaherty, whose work re-established the tradition of the short story; it concludes with more recent exponents of the form, all of them highly acclaimed, including Elizabeth Bowen, William Trevor, and Edna O'Brien.

Penguin Book Of Irish Short Stories

Literature & Fiction

KIELY, Benedict

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin Uk

The State of Ireland

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

'Do the Irish have, in relation to anybody else, any special capacity for the short story?' In this collection of thirty-eight short stories covering many generations and moods of Irish writing, this question is emphatically answered in the affirmative. These mercurial, intoxicating, witty and sometimes sad stories range from Lady Gregory's moving retelling of an ancient love story through to the extraordinary and prolific William Trevor.

The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories

Genre Fiction

VIKING

The physical beauty of Ireland is potent and unforgettable, and goes some way to explaining the magnetism of this uniquely complex and mysterious island. For centuries the place has held an almost hypnotic attraction for poets and painters, and in spite of its problems has drawn emigrant Irish back from the other side of the world. This spectacular survey of Ireland north and south conveys that beauty, and much of the country's atmosphere, in a remarkable series of specially commissioned aerial photographs and an eloquent text by Ben Kiely. With the benefit of a bird's-eye view, we see the contrasts of landscape, townscape. mountain and valley, the spread of population, the courses of rivers and the scale of loughs; we see how people live in different regions, the distribution of wealth and the concentrations of industry. Taking in all the great landmarks along the way, this panoramic tour covers the Mourne Mountains in the north-east, the Lakes of Killarney in the south-west, the great Aran Islands fort of Dun Aengus and the ruined abbey of Clonmacnoise, Trinity College, Dublin, and St Stephen's Green, the shipyards of Harland and Wolff in Belfast, Powerscourt and Blarney Castle, the Curragh, the River Shannon and the site of the Battle of the Boyne; it ranges from the lush valleys of Wexford and Wicklow, Tipperary and Kilkenny, to the bleak expanses of the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher, and the desolate beauty of Galway and Mayo, where wild, empty stretches of peatbog and mountainside border a coastline of deserted strands and remote offshore islands. Ben Kiely is the ideal man to present this photographic celebration. A Dubliner and writer of great distinction, he has travelled widely in his own country and writes of it with gentleness and wit, combining lightness of touch with a profound historical and political awareness.

Aerofilms Book of Ireland from the Air

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated

Signed by the Author, some rubbing wear to covers,

Nothing Happens In Carmincross

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

Benedict Kiely was raised in Omagh town in County Tyrone. It was a historic town, set in hill country, and haunted with spirits and stories. In adolescence, believing that he had a vocation to become a priest, the young Benedict spent a year as a Jesuit novitiate in the Irish midlands. But a back injury obliged him to spend 18 months in hospital. This put paid to his vocation and he returned to Omagh in Christmas 1939. This book looks at Kiely's boyhood and early manhood and is full of reminiscences about the people and places that shaped the novelist. Benedict Kiely has written two collections of stories - "A Journey to the Seven Streams" and "A Letter to Peachtree" and his novels include "There was an Ancient House", "Proxopera" and "Nothing Happens in Carmincross".

Drink to the bird: A memoir

METHUEN

Among the best writers this company has published is Ireland's Benedict Kiely. His first book to be released in this country, The State of Ireland, received a front page New York Times Book Review notice in which Guy Davenport wrote, "The first meaning of 'the state of Ireland' is that it's a place where stories are still told, deliciously and by masters of the art, of whom Benedict Kiely is one, perhaps the foremost."This collection was followed by novels, story collections and a separate printing of what William Kennedy called "a small masterpiece," Proxopera , Kiely's moving and memorable anti-war fable (which, especially in these times, bears reading and re-reading).This treasure chest of a book, containing his complete short stories and novellas, spans forty years, and introduces another generation to one of the great prose stylists of our age, a man who possesses "a unique voice," and whose "technique is so good as to be invisible." For this edition we have included some sixteen stories never published before in the USA, a new introduction by the author, as well as his afterword to Proxopera .

The Collected Stories of Benedict Kiely

This celebratory collection brings together Benedict Kiely's short fiction written between 1963 and 1987. The stories in this volume are rich in imagination and invention, their characters unforgettable, their humour at once affectionate and incisive.

The Collected Stories of Benedict Kiely: With an Introduction by Colum McCann

At the height of the Troubles, Mervyn returns from America to his native Ulster, only to find the specter of bombs and political murder hanging over his idyllic Carmincross. This is the timely reissue of Benedict Kiely's novel about a land riven by terrorism. Benedict Kiely was one of the most celebrated Irish writers of the twentieth century. He died in February 2007.

Nothing Happens in Carmincross

Ireland from the Air

Random House Value Publishing

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