Product Description: 1929. A representative man of letters, a Regency wit, a poet of the salon - this was Tom Moore in his heyday. In addition the Irish mobs gathered to cheer him because of his melodies and his controversial prose, and when he came to Cork and tasted the porter at a local brewery the city poet seized the glass, had is suitably inscribed and wrote an ode in commemoration as if this were a god who had come drinking Cork's mortal nectar...read more

Product Description: The Irish have always had a knack for telling wonderful stories, and their fantastic ability has been recognized from early Gaelic times. For centuries, stories of all kinds have been offered to friends and strangers alike as a form of entertainment and communication...read more

Product Description: A great deal more than a popular biography of one of Ireland's greatest chieftains. It is also a graphic portrait of life in Gaelic Ireland, when the Gaels were making their last stand against the English invaders, and the Gaelic way of life was about to become extinct...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Originally published in 1942, this is the story of Hugh O'Neill. Born in 1550, Hugh O'Neill lived in England from the age of nine as a protege of Queen Elizabeth I. He returned to Ireland as Baron Dungannon and was proclaimed Earl of tyrone in 1585, but when he went through the ancient ritual of becoming "The O'Neill", the chief of Tir Eoghain, in 1595, he had bthrown down the gauntlet to Tudor power...read more

Robert Younger, scheduled to die, is instead given the opportunity to live his life again, backwards

Corney Crone, a lonely old man, becomes obsessed with the memories of his childhood and a tragic love that has left him bitter

Ninety stories depict the lives of Irish peasants, priests, nuns, business people, revolutionaries, writers, students, and emigres

Combines essays and anthology to illustrate a critical analyses of both the personal and technical elements of short story writing with representative works by eight masters of past and present

Explores political and religious history, mythology, literature, social structure, economics, and the arts to identify and analyze the influences that have shaped the character and values of the Irish people

Explores the formation of the Irish racial mind through important political and cultural events from 300 B.C. to the present

Product Description: 1929. A representative man of letters, a Regency wit, a poet of the salon - this was Tom Moore in his heyday. In addition the Irish mobs gathered to cheer him because of his melodies and his controversial prose, and when he came to Cork and tasted the porter at a local brewery the city poet seized the glass, had is suitably inscribed and wrote an ode in commemoration as if this were a god who had come drinking Cork's mortal nectar...read more