For the Love of Ireland: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers
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Editor: Susan CahillEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-02-13
ISBN: 0345434196
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Book Review: Brillant
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a brilliant book!!! I take one exception Annie Murphy's father was a surgeon in Who's Who,one of 1st 100 to pass the American Board of Surgery. He was brought up by a immigrant German mother who shaped his life. Throughout his adult life he fought for birth control and divorce in his diocese. He brought his children up to believe in Buddishm, Zen etc., if they found the Catholic Church too restrictive. They were not lace curtain Irish, he was a Jazz Musician, a poet and a physician. Our German Grandmother told us of the great and powerful Germany, she simply shook her head at the Irish. Ireland has birth control and divorce, isn't that nice Ms. Cahill? I believe it was greatly assisted by a journey which began on Lonetown Road, up a windy path on 55 sprawling acres in the middle of an idyllic historic New England homestead, with a German Grandmother drilling into our heads that the Church was "mad".....My father brought forth his wife's cousins' story "On the Waterfront", which later was turned into an Academy Award winning film. He was a raw, 6ft6 brilliant, wicked, funny, , complex human being who sought out many gods and universes. Perhaps it was just reincarnation playing out between Annie and the Bishop, rather like unfinished business? St. Theresa said "The Light" was to die for, I'll second that......
Summary of For the Love of Ireland: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers
Welcome to the Ireland of its WritersWalk the streets of Dublin with Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Roddy Doyle. Contemplate the wild glens of Wicklow with John Millington Synge and Seamus Heaney. Wander the thrilling Cliffs of Moher with Wallace Stevens. Visit antic Limerick with Frank McCourt; mysterious Coole Park with Lady Gregory; breathtaking Sligo with William Butler Yeats; wild Donegal with Brien Friel; and hidden Clare with Edna O'Brien.
No place has inspired more great literature than Ireland, which in each new generation gives birth to an astonishing number of poets, storytellers, and dramatists. For the literary pilgrim to arrive, book in hand, at the pub where Joyce set a scene or the mountain where Yeats imagined a myth is to uncover fresh meaning in the works of writers in love with their native landscape.
In For the Love of Ireland, Susan Cahill offers the jewels of Irish literature. Each selection is followed by traveler's advice on how to find and fully experience the place that's about. Whether you take this book with you to Ireland or savor it in your armchair, you will be enriched, ennobled, and entertained by writers of remarkable range and at the top of their form.
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