... 9780199232833 , $ 110.00 Adding to his extensive scholarly output on Irish fiction and culture , which includes such notable works as Fictions of the Irish Literary Revival ( CH , Dec'87 ) and Recoveries : Neglected Episodes in Irish ...

The overthrow of seven centuries of British rule in Ireland began on Easter Monday, 1916. In Rebels, Peter de Rosa, author of the bestselling Vicars of Christ, tells the story of the 1916 Rising in all its terror and beauty.

"Dangerous Waters: The Life and Death of Erskine Childers tells the extraordinary story of a brilliant and highly talented eccentric, whose fervent support of Irish nationalism, though foddor for his novels, also led to his untimely death.

This work provides an overview of Irish theatre, read in the light of Ireland's self-definition.

Since the bulk of these sixty-odd writers have never been written about, certainly beyond brief mentions, the book opens up for further exploration a literary landscape, hitherto neglected, perhaps even unsuspected.

"The user will find graveyards listed by parish for the nine counties of Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Louth, Monaghan and Tyrone."--Back cover.

This new, enlarged edition of a book originally published in 1969 traces the evolution of the species from its origins in Africa and central Asia to its arrival in Ireland in the early mediaeval period, and the multiple uses to which it was ...