Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
My Oedipus Complex	Frank O'Connor	A child's jealousy of his place in his mother's life erupts when his father comes home from the war, not to subside until a new baby arrives placing his father and him in the same position.	OL1195439W
Irish children's literature and culture	Valerie Coghlan,Keith O'Sullivan	"Irish Children's Literature and Culture looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with major genr…	OL15538101W
Shadow-box	Antonia Logue	The story of 1910s painter Mina Loy, onetime lover of Henri Matisse, and her doomed romance with boxer and art critic Arthur Cravan. It is told through correspondence between Loy and Cravan's friend,…	OL15845071W
Field Day and the translation of Irish identities	Aidan O'Malley	This book examines Field Days cultural intervention into the Northern Irish Troubles through individual readings of the fourteen plays produced by the enterprise. It argues that at the heart of this …	OL15902006W
The Pillowman	Martin McDonagh	A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of child-murders that are happening in his town. This brutal…	OL16039374W
The Japanese effect in contemporary Irish poetry	Irene De Angelis	"The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry provides a stimulating, original and lively analysis of the Irish-Japanese literary connection from the early 1960s to 2006. While for some this may …	OL16215371W
The poor bugger's tool	Patrick R. Mullen	viii, 213 p. : 25 cm	OL16283155W
The Complete Novels of James Joyce (Dubliners / Finnegans Wake / Portrait of the Artist as a Young …	James Joyce	Contains: - [Dubliners](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL86329W/Dubliners) [Sisters](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073389W/The_Sisters) [Encounter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073256…	OL17485733W
The Irish Christmas Book	John Killen	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 cu…	OL17675946W
Dedalus Irish poets	Robert Greacen,Conleth Ellis	278 p. ; 23 cm	OL18268788W
Ireland and romanticism	Jim Kelly	"This collection by leading scholars in the field provides a fascinating and ground-breaking introduction to current research in Irish Romantic studies. It proves the international scope and aestheti…	OL19859531W
Literature, rhetoric, and violence in Northern Ireland, 1968-98	Patrick Grant	"During the Northern Irish Troubles of the past thirty years, a war of words has accompanied and interpenetrated with the actual conduct of violence in highly complex ways. This book considers how li…	OL2009875W
Safe house	Iggy McGovern	Iggy McGovern's second collection of poems sees him walking the metrical line between a childhood in the religiously divided northern town of Coleraine and his present home in Dublin. He takes in the…	OL20889259W
Beyond the stars	Sarah Webb	A collection of short stories from a stellar line-up of Irish authors and illustrators, edited by author Sarah Webb. 12 wintry tales of wonder, from the funny to the ghostly, from the heartfelt to th…	OL21182746W
Maitríóisce	Siobhán Parkinson	On her thirteenth birthday, Mara's mother gives her a matryoshka nesting doll from Russia, but one of the dolls is missing. Mara and her friend Dorota set out in search of the missing doll.	OL22627343W
Oscar Wilde, the importance of being Irish	Davis Coakley	The book deals with the Irish side of Oscar Wilde, it goes deep into places and people that influenced the writer. It gives insight into a long time 'crossed out' factor in the understanding of Wilde.	OL2402422W
Whispers beneath the waves	Sharon McDonnell	Dawn has enjoyed her life up until now. Her time is spent with her family and friends. She is no different than any other eighteen year old you know except for one thing. Dawn is a mermaid. Her life …	OL26369330W
I am of Ireland	William Butler Yeats	In this beautifully designed and produced gift book, we get a selection of about sixty of Yeats's best loved poems complemented by the paintings from Irish artists, usually artists who were contempor…	OL28602997W
Memoir	John McGahern	As wise and compelling a book as any of his elegiac and graceful novels. David MitchellThis is the story of John McGaherns childhood; of his mothers death, his fathers anger and bafflement, and his o…	OL3846779W
The Return Journey	Maeve Binchy	A collection of short stories told by wives, husbands, sons, daughters, lovers and strangers. There are star-crossed travellers who take each other's bags by mistake, only to learn that when you unlo…	OL56793W