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Book Reviews

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
April / May 2003

April 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

A sampling of the latest Irish books.

A sampling of the latest Irish books. ℘℘℘ RECOMMENDED "The reason I wanted to be a Gopher was simple: them gangsters never had to work for a living." This is famed New York gangster Owney Madden, speaking in the crackling voice which runs throughout Michael Walsh's gritty new novel And All the Saints. Madden rose from a tough youth in an Irish ghetto in England to become one … [Read more...] about Book Reviews

Book Reviews

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
December / January 2003

December 1, 2002 by Leave a Comment

A Sampling of the Latest Irish Books on Offer ℘℘℘ RECOMMENDED Ireland's Painters: 1600-1940 presents a stunning survey of the grand, oftoverlooked tradition of art in Ireland. From the early, stately portraits by Thomas Frye and Susannah Drury's East Prospect of The Giant's Causeway, to Sean O'Sullivan's intimate look inside a cottage with The Old Couple and the grand … [Read more...] about Book Reviews

Historic Pubs of Belfast

By Seth Linder, Contributor
June / July 2002

June 1, 2002 by 1 Comment

Think of Irish pubs and the mind turns to Dublin; sipping a pint of Guinness as the sun streams over the aged wooden interiors of Doheny and Nesbitt's or following the literary trail of Joyce, Behan and Kavanagh through Davy Byrne's, Mulligans and McDaids. Celebrated in verse and novel, a focal point for every tourist, Dublin pub culture is a treasure to be prized. But travel … [Read more...] about Historic Pubs of Belfast

Out of Albany

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
June / July 2002

June 1, 2002 by Leave a Comment

William Kennedy, known as the author who captured Albany, New York, talks to Tom Deignan. ℘℘℘ William Kennedy is telling a story about his father that could very well be a haunting moment from any one of his seven "Albany cycle" novels. "My father's father came from Tipperary," the novelist, 74, says over an Irish breakfast in Fitzpatrick's mid-town Manhattan hotel. Kennedy's … [Read more...] about Out of Albany

Books: Roscoe

By Pete Hamill, Contributor
June / July 2002

June 1, 2002 by Leave a Comment

Roscoe – the latest book from Albany author William Kennedy – is a splendid novel: at once an exuberant elegy, a sad comedy, a realistic fable of life and death. In the seventh novel of Kennedy's "Albany cycle," the meshed subjects are the stuff of the real world, from politics to love, corruption to honor. But there is also room for a ghost story (the epitome of a unburied … [Read more...] about Books: Roscoe

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William Butler Yeats, Ireland’s most famous poet and one of the leading literary figures of the 20th century, was born in Sandyhurst, Co. Dublin on this day in 1865 to an upper class Protestant family. He spent much of his childhood in Co. Sligo, which heavily influenced Yeats’s natural themes, and he read classics like Shakespeare, Donne, Alighieri and Shelley. With Lady Gregory, he helped establish the Gaelic Literary Revival and founded the Abbey Theater in Dublin. He was the first Irishman awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923, followed by Shaw, Beckett and Heaney.

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