158 Search Results for: "clara o'connor"

Out of the frying pan and into the fire...Gardas Siobhan and Macdara Flannery are off to the seaside for their honeymoon, happy to finally have time off from work and...

Haunted English explores the role of language in colonization and decolonization by examining how Anglo-Celtic modernists W. B. Yeats, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Marianne Moore "de-Anglicize" their literary vernaculars. Laura O'Connor...

Aideen O'Connor and Ria Mooney have different backgrounds, ambitions and creative visions. They come of age in an Ireland desperate to control and restrict women: their sexuality; their careers; their...

A BBC 'BETWEEN THE COVERS' BOOK CLUB PICK'I didn't want it to end' - Maggie O'Farrell'Powerful . . . written with a calm, luminous precision' - Colm ToibinAn Observer Best...

'Luminous' SEBASTIAN BARRY'Incandescent characters and mellifluous prose' LISA CAREY'Reminiscent of Edith Wharton at her very best' LIZ NUGENT_________The true story of a woman ahead of her time . . ....

The old tradition of the literary stroller, whose imagination fed on the passing crowd, still survived in the intimate atmosphere of Dublin in the 1970s and 1980s. In these diaries...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. A family sets out on a...

Sell the cow, buy the sheep, but never be without the horse!From the mythical stallions of legend to the thoroughbreds of today, horses and ponies have been part of the...

Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious and flirtatious,...

* As heard on BBC Radio 4 *Rediscover Joseph O'Connor's monumental #1 international bestseller. In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by injustice and natural disaster, the...

The green, green grass of Ireland is renowned across the world. Join us as we walk through fields dotted with sheep and divided by dry-stone walls. Celebrate the rolling slopes,...