Here's Ireland

Travel

MacMahon, Bryan

Europe

Dutton

Physical description: 242 p., 24 plates : ill., 1 map ; 23 cm. Subjects: Ireland - Description and travel.

Batsford

The story of Peter Mulrooney, a forty-something, unhitched pedagogue living in a nondescript town in the middle on nowhere.

Hero Town

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Brandon Books

<p>Here in Hero Town lives Peter Mulrooney: forty years old, forty years young; an unhitched pedagogue teetering on the edge of fulfilment. Hero Town lies in the middle of nowhere, the centre of everywhere. Its citizens quarrel, grovel and intrigue; succeed and fail in lovemaking. If a man raises his head in pride, they lower it; if he lowers it, they raise it. They adore stories and preserve the life of the imagination. They communicate in the shorthand of the nerves.</p>

Born in Listowel, Co. Kerry, in 1909, Bryan MacMahon was for most of his adult life schoolmaster of the local Boys National School until his retirement in 1975. He has written a number of novels and plays as well as two celebrated volumes of short stories - long out of print -îThe Lion Tamer and The Red Petticoat. The "New York Times" called Bryan MacMahon "the purest, the richest of Irish voices . . .' and praised his stories as being 'superior not only because of the richness of imagination he brings to them and because he creates a language and a world all his own, but because he is able to convey through moments in the lives of simple Irish people values that are universal, that transcend geography and time, and concern men and women where they live." This collection makes available again the cream of Bryan MacMahon's stories from his two earlier volumes along with hitherto unpublished stories and others not previously collected in book form.

The end of the world and other stories

Poolbeg Press

The story of Ballyheigue

History

Oidhreacht

Eccentric Archbishop: Richard Whately of Redesdale

Kilmacud Stillorgan Local History Group

Bryan MacMahon is one of Ireland's finest writers. A Kerryman, he is also one of its most famous teachers. The world has beaten a path to Listowel to look at, and listen to, The Master.This book is an eloquent and colourful chronicle of a rich and happy life: it is the story of a man who loves literature and his fellow man and who has ever been a fighter for both.From the day when he took up a teaching post in his native Listowel he has shown himself as a dedicated and enlightened teacher, a short-story writer of international stature, and a public speaker of the rarest verve and vitality.He is also a man in love with language, not only English which he uses so magically, but also with Irish and indeed Shelta, the secret language of the travelling people, a knowledge which he uses to such effect in his play and novel The Honey Spike.In a telling phrase, Bryan MacMahon quotes the saying that "a teacher leaves the track of his teeth on a parish for three generations." There is no doubt that his work has been for the good not merely of his native area, but also of his pupils, his fellow teachers and readers everywhere.He is a rare national asset: this wise, witty and frank book will provide him with "a monument more lasting than bronze."

The Master

Biographies & Memoirs

Poolbeg Pr Ltd

Master

Dufour Editions

Honey Spike

British & Irish

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