The Irish Christmas Book

By John Killen

Subjects: English literature, Literary collections, Christmas, Irish authors

Description: This warm, spicy treat of a book is a splendid anthology of Irish writing -- stories, poems, songs, letters, folklore, and extracts from famous novels, histories, and biographies. Rich ingredients culled from the work of writers as diverse as Yeats, Behan, Longley, Kavanagh, Joyce, Heaney, Binchy, MacNeice, Kiely, and MacLaverty. Illustrated throughout with appealing woodcuts, photographs, and line drawings, this collection is perfect for dipping into over Christmas and throughout the year.