Anthologizes letters, drama, poetry, and short stories ranging from Cuchulain to an anonymous schoolgirl to Synge, Yeats, and Joyce, revealing Irish responses to love in all its forms and providing a catalog of the ways of love

Some Irish Loving

O'BRIEN, EDNA.

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

The story of Cait and Baba and their escape from countryside and convent to the alluring "crowds and lights and noise" of Dublin. The author also wrote "Johnny I Hardly Knew You", "The Love Object and Other Stories" and "A Scandalous Woman and Other Stories".

The Country Girls

Penguin??Books

The comic sequel to "The Country Girls", in which Caithleen Brady finds romance in Dublin - classy romance with the second Mr Gentleman. The story of Caithleen and Baba continues in "Girls in Their Married Bliss".

Girl with Green Eyes

August is a Wicked Month

Separated from her husband, Ellen finds herself living alone in a city she dislikes - a place that denies her past and offers no hope for her future. Determined to change her life, she decides to go south in search of sun and companionship.

August Is a Wicked Month

Penguin

Love and its objects are the common elements in these eight stories: the nervous love of a country mother for her sophisticated, town-living daughter, the adoration of a mistress for her married lover and less orthodox affairs between women and their illusions.

The Love Object

Literary

In a diary-like stream of image, impression, expression and experience, this book catalogues the mundane agony of the poor Irish child confronted at every turn with abundant opportunities for a sensational, scandalous and steadfast descent into eternal fire and damnation.

Pagan Place

The sombre, impassioned, night-time monologue of middle-aged Mary Hooligan. The author also wrote "The Country Girls", "The Lonely Girl", "A Pagan Place" and "Johnny I Hardly Knew You".

Night

Contemporary

The eight short stories of this collection have a dual theme: Ireland - its people, its personality - and woman - woman betrayed, or sacrificed, innocence involuntarily lost, happiness stolen or mislaid.

A Scandalous Woman and Other Stories

Penguin Putnam

O'Brien, Edna. Some Irish Loving. A Selection. First Penguin edition. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1981. 11 cm x 18 cm. 252, (4) pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss - american - irish poet Chuck Kruger. Contains among others the following chapters: The Preamble; The Fantastic; The Profane; The Desperate; The Male; The Female; The Intemperate etc.

Irish Book Center

The country is Ireland. The girls are Kate Brady and Baba Brennan. This trilogy tells the story of their escape from countryside and convent out into the world, into the bright city lights of Dublin and, naive and reckless, into a whirl of flirtations and passionate misadventures.

The Country Girls Trilogy 'the Country Girls', ' the Lonely Girl', 'Girls in Their Married Bliss

Gardners Books

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Some Irish Loving

The Country Girls

Girl with Green Eyes

August Is a Wicked Month

The Love Object

Pagan Place

Night

A Scandalous Woman and Other Stories

Some Irish Loving

The Country Girls Trilogy 'the Country Girls', ' the Lonely Girl', 'Girls in Their Married Bliss