A BOOK OF IRELAND
Written by Frank O'Connor
Published by Collins
in 1959
- Categorised in:
- IRELAND
A BOOK OF IRELAND
Written by Frank O'Connor.
Stock no. 2132475
1967.
Hardback.
Small format.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Red cloth. Small format. 52 b/w photos. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with edge-creasing; some foxing.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction: Frank O'Connor
- Prologue: Teh Irish Dancer Anonymous
- A Selection of the Contents:
- Places
- Sunday in Ireland John Betjeman Selected Poems
- The Bells of Shandon Francis Sylvester Mahoney ("Father Prout")
- Londonderry Sean O'Faolain An Irish Journey
- Coleraine Sean O'Faolain An Irish Journey
- Belfast Michael McLaverty Call My brother Back
- History
- The Fighting Race J.I.C. Clarke
- Who'll Carve teh Pig? Anonymous
- The Death of Mess Gegra Anonymous The Siege of Howth
- On Baile's Strand Anonymous
- The Viking Terror anonymous
- The Origin of teh Battle of Clontarf, A.D. 1014 Geoffrey Keating History of Ireland
- The Return from Fingal, A.D. 1014 Geoffrey Keating History of Ireland
- Pastoral and Town Life
- Irish Hospitality - I Le chevalier De La Tocnaye
- Irish Hospitality - II Asenath Nicholson The Bible in Ireland
- An Old Woman of teh Roads Padraic Colum
- Boy in Ireland Patrick Gallegher Paddy the Cope
- The Hiring Fair Patrick Gallegher Paddy teh Cope
- After the Storm Asenath Nicholson The Bible in Ireland
- People Great and Small
- A Fair People Samuel Johnson Boswell's Life of Johnson
- These Irish Rinucinni
- These Friendly Irish William Makepeace Thackeray Irish Sketch Book
- Nice But - Anthony Trollope Autobiogrtaphy
- Decent People Anonymous Letter, 1825
- Temperament Anthony Trollope Autobiography
- Carolan Oliver Goldsmith Prose Works
- Oliver Goldsmith William Makepeace Thackeray English Humorists
- Sir Boyle Roche Sir Jonah Barrington Personal Sketches
- Humour, Romance and Sentiment
- Righteous Anger James Stephens Collected Poems
- The Brewer's Man L.A.G. Strong Dublin Days
- Smart Boy James Stephens Irish Writing
- The Night Before Larry Was Stretched Anonymous
- The Old Orange Flute Anonymous
- Eating English Halfpence Jonathan Swift The Drapier's Fourth Letter
- Customs and Belierfs
- Irish Courtship - I Anonymous
- Irish Courtship - II Bernard Shaw Letters to Florence Farr
- Irish Courtship -n III W.B. Yeats Letters to Florence Farr
- Country Marriage Conrad Arensberg the Irish Countrymand
- Innocent Amusement, 1783 Sir Jonah Barrington Personal Sketches
- A Landlord's Amusement Arthur Young Tour in Ireland
- Poems, Songs and Ballads
- The Scholar and His Cat Anonymous
- Liadain Anonymous
- The Old Woman of Beare Anonymous
- The Sweetness of Earth Anonymous
- Woodlore Anonymous
- She is My Dear Anonymous
- I Shall Not Die for Thee Anonymous
- Dear Dark Head Anonymous
- Religious and Philosophical
- The Bridge of Glass Anonymous Voyage of Maelduin
- The Fairies - I Conrad Arensberg The Irish County man
- The Fairies - II William Allingham
- The Stolen Child W.B. Yeats Collected Poems
- To the Leanan Sidhe Thomas Boyd
- The Warrior Anonymous
- Gaelic Comes to England The Venerable Bede