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Christy Ring: A personal portrait

Val Dorgan

Christy Rng. A Personal Portrait

Sports & Outdoors

Dorgan, Val

Biographies

Belfast

McAughtry, Sam

Dublin

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Arts & Photography

Ballagh, Robert

Photography & Video

The photographs highlight incidents and scenes hitherto disregarded, and illustrate the tenor of daily life in Dublin during Joyce's early life. Long-departed Dubliner's in their streets and parks return to the reader's gaze: babies in perambulators, lords, ladies, servants, and professional classes, army officers, constabulary, and urchins are all to be found, alongside monuments (subsequently blown up) and a wide choice of goods and services, from Zebra Grate Polish to High Class Artificial Teeth. This collection of long-lost images by Robert French, exhumed by the late Kieran Hickey from the Lawrence Photograph Collection at the National Library of Ireland, and selected and enlarged in the manner of Antonioni, were first published in 1982 and have long been out of print.

Faithful departed: The Dublin of James Joyce's Ulysses : recaptured from classic photographs and assembled

J.B. Campbell

<p>How like people great cities are. They have their ages and stages, their public faces and private places, their moments of triumph and tragedy, their moods and their mysteries. And like people great cities also have their intimates and lovers artists who have sought in various forms to capture their essence for themselves and for posterity. Dublin, a storied city of many centuries' heritage, has never lacked for portraitists, being famously recorded in the extreme contrast of Joyce's word-maps and Malton's elegant prints. Now comes Robert Ballagh, Ireland's leading artist of the younger generation, to record through the eye of the camera the city of his birth. Ballagh's architectural training has enabled him to surprise us with aspects of built structures which would otherwise remain undiscovered; with his artist's eye he can compose streetscapes and landscapes of unexpected contrast and beauty; and his sense of perspective, historical no less than visual, gives him the ability to see Dublin's pasts in its present. Ballagh's camera gives us, memorably, Dublin living and lived in. Robert Ballagh writes his own foreword to the photographs and Ciaran Carty contributes an introductory essay.</p>

Robert Ballagh

Sisters

History

June Levin

Europe

Lisa: The story of an Irish drug addict

Biographies & Memoirs

Lisa

Community & Culture

Goodly Barrow: A Voyage on an Irish River

This is the story of a river and of the countryside through which it flows. The Barrow valley, traversing south Leinster from the Slieve Bloom mountains to Waterford harbour, is a little-known part of Ireland, yet one of hte most interesting. A string of warring tribal kingdoms in Celtic times, it became a great medieval highway and a frontier of the English pale. Viking and Norman found their way up the estuary; castles, abbeys and towns rose along the banks, and the fertile plans of Kildare and Carlow attracted Tudor and Cromwellian adventurers. Edmund Spenser called this river "the goodly Barrow which doth hoord great heapes of salmons in his deepe bosome". Tadhg O'Sullivan's book presents the river in its many different aspects: tribal deity and life-symbol, frontier and battleground, highway and navigation; but above all in its relationship to the people who dwell on its banks and those whom the current of history has brought here in the past - gaelic chieftain, Norman war-lord, Cistercian monk, Quaker settler, Huguenot refugee. The small riverside towns in their somnolent decay, the ancient and beatiful bridges guarded by crumbling castles, the toppled stones of once-great abbeys, all have their legengs and songs. Goodley Barrow is a rambling book in a particular Irish traditional. It is no guidebook, but a narrative that drifts with the river's flow, wandering as often as not down sidestreams of literature, anecdote or pure fancy; never loath to indulge the author's personal foibles. But beneath the placid surface there is a deeper purpose: to focus attention on this little-known but highly0civilised part of Ireland and on the priceless heritage which we possess in the simply things of our countryside.

Goodly Barrow: A voyage on an Irish river

O'Sullivan, T. F

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