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Literature: History & Criticism
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Tennessee Williams : Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh€22.99
On 31 March 1945, at The Playhouse Theatre on Forty-Eight Street the curtain rose on the opening night of The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams, the show's thirty-four-year-old playwright, sat hunched in an aisle seat, looking, according to one paper, 'like a farm boy in his Sunday best'.
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A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Oxford World's Classics)€10.99
In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passionately for women's intellectual freedom and their role in challenging the drive towards fascism and conflict.
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A Modest Proposal€3.00
They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745).
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The Works of Walter Quin : An Irishman at the Stuart Courts (Hardback)Special Price €38.50 Regular Price €55.00
2014 1st Edition Hardback
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Burning the Days€15.99
This is the brilliant memoir of a man who starts out in Manhattan and comes of age in the skies over Korea, before emerging as one of America's finest authors in the New York of the 1960s.
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Landgartha: A Tragie-Comedy (Hardback)Special Price €19.99 Regular Price €29.99
First performed in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day 1640, Henry Burnell's Landgartha was the last play produced before political unrest forced the closure of Dublin's only theatre.
2013 1st Edition Hardback.
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The Irish Novel 1960-2010Special Price €14.99 Regular Price €24.99
The increased visibility of the Irish novel in recent years has been one of the outstanding developments in contemporary Irish literature.
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Mary LavinSpecial Price €14.99 Regular Price €24.99
Taking into account new archival material, the book investigates the thematic and stylistic features of Lavin’s work from a variety of perspectives, including the Irish-American.
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Mary Lavin (Hardback)Special Price €19.99 Regular Price €49.99
Taking into account new archival material, the book investigates the thematic and stylistic features of Lavin’s work from a variety of perspectives, including the Irish-American.