<p>Physical description; 141 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes index. Index. Summary; "A Rich and Rare Land" is a lively new collection of poetry and paintings that celebrates the best in Irish verse and art. Works by artists such as Walter Osborne, William Orpen, Nano Reid and Sir John Lavery, are placed in harmony alongside poems by Seamus Heaney, W.B. Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh, Katharine Tynan, Louis MacNeice and Jonathan Swift, among others. Original and beautiful, "A Rich and Rare Land" offers a fresh and attractive approach to many of Ireland's finest poems and paintings. Other books by Fleur Robertson include: "Irish Ballads"; "A little Bit of Ireland"; and, "A Treasury of Scottish Verse". Subjects; Painting, Irish. English poetry - Irish authors. Painting, Modern - 19th century - Ireland. Painting, Modern - 20th century - Ireland. Ireland in art. Painting, Irish - 19th century. Painting, Irish - 20th century. Ireland - Poetry. English poetry. Poetry texts &amp; anthologies ; Painting &amp; paintings. English ; Ireland. Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Genres; Illustrated. Poetry.</p>

Rich & Rare Land: Irish Poetry and Paintings

Literature & Fiction

Robertson, Fleur

Poetry

Dublin: Gill & Macmillan

One of the world's leading Yeats scholars completes his definitive history, begun with the highly acclaimed Prodigal Father, in Family Secrets, a biography of William Butler Yeats, his younger brother Jack, and sisters Susan Mary (Lily) and Elizabeth Corbet (Lollie). This long-awaited sequel follows in the earlier book's tradition of the "right book written by exactly the right man" (Hugh Kenner). Never before has the public been privy to the story of these lives woven in such intimate detail. Murphy takes us into some of the family's darkest "secrets: " the strains of emotional instability among the Pollexfen aunts and uncles; interest in mysticism and the occult (about which Yeats wrote considerably); the father's long platonic relationship with Miss Rosa Butt; the tensions between Lily and Lollie (the "weird sisters"), and Lollie's difficult, even paranoid personality. Drawing on correspondence and an extensive number of unpublished letters and materials not hitherto available and more than one hundred photographs and illustrations (many never before published), Family Secrets explores a gallery of characters not often found within the confines of a single family. Their story, which reads like a novel, will not only capture the fancy of general readers but will make a significant contribution to the letters of twentieth-century literature.

Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relatives

MURPHY, William M.

Biographies & Memoirs

Irish Waterside Walks

Travel

Fewer, Michael

Europe

Egg on my face

Power, Seán

Reference

Bloody women: Ireland's female killers

Politics & Social Sciences

Kiely, David M.

Social Sciences

The Book of Irish Names

ZACZEK, IAIN

Ireland's native trees and woodlands have been with us for the last 10,000 years. Where once they covered the whole island, today, they cover less than one per cent. But the woodlands that have survived are some of the richest ecosystems in the country, providing the perfect environment for many species of native animals and plants. "Native Trees and Forests of Ireland" is a celebration of the precious heritage of Ireland's trees and woodlands. This is a story with a future, as well as a past and a present. David Hickie recounts the history, the tree species, the folklore and superstitions of our native woods, as well as the traditional uses of timber products. He looks at the future of Ireland's native trees and forests, how to manage and protect them and plan for their further development. Photographer Mike O'Toole spent a year shooting these extraordinary photographs. Accompanied by an excellent and informative text, "Native Trees and Forests of Ireland" is an important and beautiful record of a unique part of Ireland's heritage. Some tree organisations in Ireland are: The People's Millenium Forest facts; Coilte; Crann, and The Tree Council of Ireland.

Native Trees and Forests of Ireland

Hickie, David

Between the years of the mid thirties through to 1960, independent Ireland suffered from economic stagnation, and also went through a period of intense cultural and psychological repression. While external circumstances account for much of the stagnation - especially the depression of the thirties and the Second World War - Preventing the Future argues that the situation was aggravated by internal circumstances. The key domestic factor was the failure to extend higher and technical education and training to larger sections of the population. This derived from political stalemates in a small country which derived in turn from the power of the Catholic Church, the strength of the small-farm community, the ideological wish to preserve an older society and, later, gerontocratic tendencies in the political elites and in society as a whole. While economic growth did accelerate after 1960, the political stand-off over mass education resulted in large numbers of young people being denied preparation for life in the modern world and, arguably, denied Ireland a sufficient supply of trained labour and educated citizens. Ireland's Celtic Tiger of the nineties was in great part driven by a new and highly educated and technically trained workforce. The political stalemates of the forties and fifties delayed the initial, incomplete take-off until the sixties and resulted in the Tiger arriving nearly a generation later than it might have.

Preventing the Future

Garvin, Tom

Sociology

The Portadown News has been passed by the Equality Commission, verified by the Decommissioning Commission, overlooked by the Oversight Commissioner, paraded before the Parades Commission, monitored internationally by the International Monitoring Commission, read out by a parole officer to the Loyalist Commission, registered (we think) with the Electoral Commission, described as 'Wrong' by the Human Rights Commission, reported to the Fair Employment Commission, investigated by the Policing Ombudsman, split into four sections by British Telecom, stitched back together again by Special Branch, coloured in by the Arts Council, discussed at some length by the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, translated into Cantonese by the Ulster-Scots Agency, printed by a company in no way connected to the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, delivered by Translink (except Sundays), distributed by Northern Ireland Electricity with a three-day interruption over Christmas, buried in County Monaghan by Sinn Fein, dug up again and again and again by the Pat Finucane Centre, sold off secretly by the Water Service, placed on a coffee table by the Women's Coalition and thrown away at the last minute by Jeffrey Donaldson. Your statutory rights are not affected.

The Portadown News

History

Emerson, Newton

The Irish Times Book of the Year 2004 will be the fifth edition of this successful Christmas gift book.  All the best stories from the period September 2003 - September 2004 are presented in book form and accompanied by stunning colour photography. The Irish Times Book of the Year is the perfect Christmas gift book for all those who wish to recall the highlights of the past twelve months as recorded in Ireland's leading quality newspaper.

The "Irish Times" Book of the Year

Murtagh, Peter (1953-)

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