Exploring the development of Dublin from the intimate centre over which Leopold Bloom wandered, where George Moore and W.B. Yeats met casually, to the undistinguished urban sprawl of today. It presents a portrait of the heritage and atmosphere of this Irish city.

Dublin

Somerville-Large, Peter

H.Hamilton

To the Navel of the World: Yaks and Unheroic Travels in Nepal and Tibet

Travel

Asia

Hamish Hamilton

This is a ""rare gallery of human curiosities"" - William Trevor. A delightful excursion into the bizarre, colorful, and extravagant lives of Irish eccentrics, saints, scholars, bucks and hellrakes, duellists, abductors, rhymers, and miracle-makers.

Irish Eccentrics: A Selection

Harpercollins

To the Navel of the World

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

The weaving of fact and folklore is the essence of Peter Somerville-Large's fascinating history of 50 years of Irish life. The book is filled with historical and cultural detail unsullied by proselytism or sentimentality. Throughout, the reader can hear the voices of the Irish—commentary by both contemporary writers and those who lived through the events and crises they describe are seamlessly woven into the text. Peter Somerville-Large has a talent for observation, and his interest in the people he writes about is palpable.

Irish Voices: 50 Years of Irish Life 1916-1966

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

RANDOM HOUSE UK

In 1916, Eamon de Valera arrived on the Irish scene and as a result, so we are told, the fairies left. Such combining of fact and folklore is the essence of this fascinating history that describes the tragedies and poverty of those years, yet brims with cultural, domestic, and political detail. Comments by contemporary writers, both famous and obscure, are seamlessly woven into the text, as are direct memories of those who lived through the events described.

Irish Voices: An Informal History 1916-1966

History

Europe

An Irish Childhood

Peter Somerville-Large grew up with his brother Phil in a nursery world at the top of a smart house in Dublin from where they could watch Fitzwilliam Place far below, with the horse drawn delivery vans, the animals being driven to market, and their father's patients arriving to visit the consulting rooms on the ground floor. The family had houses in the country too, with livestock and vegetable gardens, and a bevy of eccentric relations, among them Edith Somerville (of Somerville and Ross fame). When Peter was five, his father bought an island - eighty bare rocky acres on the north shore of the Kenmare River in county Kerry - which he saw as paradise. There were extraordinary parties, sailing trips, fishing expeditions. An Irish Childhood, beautifully written, takes the reader back to the sensations and excitements of children, and paints an engaging, vivid picture of a world at once so recent yet now vanished away.

Chivers

Peter Somerville-Large grew up in a 1930s nursery world at the top of a smart Georgian house in Dublin. The family had houses in the country too, and a bevy of eccentric relations, among them Edith Somerville (of Somerville and Ross fame). When Peter was five, his father bought an island - twenty rocky acres on the north shore of the Kenmare River in County Kerry - his idea of paradise. There were parties, sailing trips, fishing expeditions. Gradually, as the century progressed, the parties grew fewer and the grand houses fell into disrepair. This beautifully written memoir takes the reader back to the sensations and excitements of childhood and paints a vivid picture of a vanished world.

Thorndike Pr

Somerville-Large, Peter. The Coast of West Cork. Second edition. Belfast, The Appletree Press, 1985. 15 cm x 22 cm. 217 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss - american - irish poet Chuck Kruger. Occasional markings and annotations in the text. Contains among others the following chapters: Clonakilty to Castlefreke; Rosscarbery to Drombeg Circle; Glandore to the Rough Quarter; Castletownshend to Lough Hyne; Baltimore to Sherkin; Cape Clear; Skibbereen; Roaring Water Bay; Schull and Mount Gabriel; Leamcon to Ballydevin; Crookhaven etc.

The Coast Of West Cork

The Appletree Press

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Dublin

To the Navel of the World: Yaks and Unheroic Travels in Nepal and Tibet

Irish Eccentrics: A Selection

To the Navel of the World

Irish Voices: 50 Years of Irish Life 1916-1966

Irish Voices: An Informal History 1916-1966

An Irish Childhood

An Irish Childhood

An Irish Childhood

The Coast Of West Cork