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Several Irish short-story anthologies have been published since 2000 to meet the demands of the reading public, for example: the Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories 2005 and 2007; Irish Short Stories (2011), edited by Joseph O'Connor; Town and Country: New Irish Short Stories (2013), edited and with an introduction by Kevin Barry; The ...
The ruins of the house in which Muiris Ó Súilleabháin grew up on the Great Blasket Island.. Muiris Ó Súilleabháin (Irish: [ˈmˠɪɾʲɪʃ oː sˠuːl̠ʲəˈwaːnʲ]; 19 February 1904 – 25 June 1950), anglicised as Maurice O'Sullivan, was an Irish author famous for his Irish language memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket Island and in Dingle, County Kerry, off the western coast of ...
Unhappy the Land: The Most Oppressed People Ever, the Irish? is a 2016 book by Liam Kennedy, professor emeritus at Queen's University, Belfast. Kennedy introduces, as well as criticizes, the concept of "most oppressed people ever" (MOPE) [ 1 ] to describe what he sees as a pervasive assumption both among Irish nationalists and the Irish ...
Image credits: Gript Critics believe the description is purposely exaggerated to make kids who come from a strong Irish cultural background feel lessened and ashamed of their origins. “You are ...
The Commitments (1987) (originally to be called The Partitions [1]) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle. [2] The first episode in The Barrytown Trilogy , it is about a group of unemployed young people in the north side of Dublin , Ireland, who start a soul band.
It ran for only three days and closed abruptly. Due to a disagreement between Brian O'Nualain's widow and the book publishers The Abbey Theatre decided to pull the play. The book was adapted for stage by Paul Lee and first presented in the pub An Béal Bocht, Charlemont Street, Dublin, for the Dublin Theatre Festival in 1989, directed by Ronan ...
Gypo Nolan - The informer of the novel's title, he is an ex-policeman and member of the Revolutionary Organization.; Frankie McPhillip - Gypo Nolan's "bosom friend" and a member of the Revolutionary Organization, he is wanted for a murder committed during a farm labourers' strike and is betrayed to the police by Gypo.
Vertue Rewarded; or, The Irish Princess is a 1693 novel. Published in London, it is one of the earliest examples of Irish prose fiction in the English language. [1] [2] Two original copies survive; one in the Bodleian Library and one in the British Museum. [3]