Read Ireland Book News - Issue 46
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Irish Georgian by Herbert Ypma (Paperback; 16.99 IRP/ 25.50 USD) [Add To Basket]
During the late 18th century Ireland experienced a genuine renaissance. With the wealth of the British empire steadily increasing and the wars the scarred 17th century Ireland behind them, the landed gentry of Ireland spearheaded the founding of a considerable Irish industry, dedicated to beauty in architecture, design and decoration. Dublin, with its trend-setting Georgian architecture, blossomed into what became known as the Empire's second city, and in all disciplines of style, Ireland set extraordinary standards and achieved many world firsts. The first public building in the neo-Palladian style was in Dublin; copper-plate-printed fabric, marvelously decorated, was invented in Ireland; silver and cut crystal from Irish workshops were exported alll over the world; and the Dublin Group of engravers became renowned worldwide for raising the printing technique of the mezzotint to dazzling new heights. The unaffected simplicity and symmetry of the classical revival pervade the architecture of the ear, from grand country manors, genteel townhouses and graceful villas, to simple rural cottages. This book features the inspirational houses great and small that have been renovated. Once shunned as representative of English Protestant oppression, Ireland's magnificent Georgian legacy has enjoyed a reappraisal and a great revival of interest in recent times. With its seductive aura of dignified restraint and faded grandeur, Irish Georgian style elicits an instinctive approval today. The book contains 142 wonderful color photographs by Barbara and Rene Stoeltie.
Ireland Blue Guide 1998 by Brian Lalor (Paperback; 17.15 IRP / 27.50 USD) [Add To Basket]
The 8th edition of this guide details hundreds of sites of historic interest and where to find them. It contains informative descriptions of architectural styles including dramatically sited cashels and hill forts, Bronze Age wedge-tombs, Iron Age or early Christian Ogham stones, intricately carved High Crosses, beehive huts, Round Towers and medieval churches and castles. It provides an up-to-date look at the contemporary Irish cultural scene. Explore the wealth of art galleries and museums or sample some traditional Irish music. The author's choice of bookshops, cafes, bars and restaurants are all listed. It also provides practical information on where to stay: hotels, B&B's, country houses and hostels to suit all tastes and budgets. Travel information, including ferry sailings to England, and river cruises. A comprehensive guide for the traveller.
Milestones in Irish History edited by Liam De Paor (Paperback; 7.99 IRP / 12.00 USD) [Add To Basket]
This book spans the whole range of Irish history from the megalithic era to the late 20th century. Contributors include the leading experts in their fields. Chapters include: The Building of the Boyne Tombs by Frank Mitchell; The Coming of Christianity by Liam de Paor; Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf by Donnchadh O Carrain; The Norman Invasion by Michael Richter; The Flight of the Earls by Margaret Mac Curtain; The Plantations of Ulster by Aidan Clarke; The Act of Union by James McGuire; The Death of the Irish Language by Richard B. Walsh; Catholic Emancipation by Kevin B. Nolan; The Land War by Joseph Lee; The Founding of the Gaelic Leagure by Donal McCartney; Partition by Ronan Fanning; and The European Economic Community by John A. Murphy. Succinct and readable, this book is an essential guide to the understanding of key epochs and events in Irish history.
Diaries of Ireland: An Anthology, 1590-1987 edited by Melosina Lenox-Conyngham (Paperback; 11.99 IRP / 18.00 USD) [Add To Basket]
Here is Ireland's past distilled - poignant personal narratives and privileged moments, human behaviour recorded in its infinite variety, voices overheard: chamber music. In these pages, Elizbethan adventurers, fops, soldiers, widows, landlords, republicans, poets, hedge-school masters and literary lesbians seem to dance through 400 years of Irish history. National events - the seige of Limerick, the battle of the Boyne, Wexford in 1798, the Famine, literary revival, 1916 Rising and Civil War - commingle with details of individual lives - procreation and recreation, courtship, food, clothing, religion, privation, death. This book is an intimate history of everyday life on this island, a feast for the mind and imagination.
Rebellion in Wicklow: General Joseph Holt's Personal Account of 1798 edited by Peter O'Shaughnessy (Paperback; 9.99 IRP / 15.00 USD) [Add To Basket]
Published for the first time is the account, in his own words, of one of the most active of all the United Irish military leaders. It focuses almost entirely on County Wicklow and is full of local reference and colour. Joseph Holt was around 40 years old at the time of the 1798 rebellion. A comfortably-off tenant farmer, he threw his lot in with the rebels more out of a sense of grievance than for idealistic reasons. He came to the fore after the main Wexford battles, as captain, colonel and general, and successfully operated as a guerilla leader from the shelter of the Wicklow mountains. He held out long after the main rebellion had ended, before surrendering to the authorities in November 1798. He was deported, but eventually returned to Ireland. A sanitised version of his memoirs was published in 1838: this book is the full and accurate transcript of the Irish part of his memoirs. It is fascinating reading!
Our Lady of Sligo by Sebastian Barry (Paperback; 8.10 IRP / 12.00 USD) [Add To Basket]
Award-winning playwright's newest play is a compelling story inspired by his own family history. In Jervis Street Hospital in Dublin, circa 1953, Mai O'Hara lies, attended by the young nursing Sister, and visited by the uneasy figures of her husband Jack, daughter Joanie and her dead father. Fuelled by alcohol, passion and despair it is the story of her flamboyant but destructive relationship with Jack, and the lost country of her childhood and unfulfilled expectations in the wake of Irish independence and self-rule. The play was first produced at the Royal National Theatre in London in a co-production with Out of Joint, directed by Max Stafford-Clark, in April 1998.
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