Ireland in Mind: An Anthology
Edited by Alice Leccese Powers
Edited by Alice Leccese Powers
Part of Vintage Departures
Category: Travel: Europe | Fiction | Poetry
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$15.00
Mar 07, 2000 | ISBN 9780375703447
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Table Of Contents
Introduction
CONNAUGHT
Heinrich Böll
“Mayo—God Help Us”
“Skeleton of a Human Habitation”
Thomas Flanagan
from The Year of the French
Eric Newby
“To the Aran Islands”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“From Galway to Ballinahinch”
Anthony Trollope
from The Macdermots of Ballycloran
T. H. White
“Letter from a Goose Shooter”
Oscar Wilde
from The Letters of Oscar Wilde 80
MUNSTER
Annabel Davis-Goff
“Glenville”
Frank McCourt
from Angela’s Ashes
George Moore
“Home Sickness”
Edna O’Brien
“My Mother’s Mother”
Muriel Rukeyser
from The Orgy
Wallace Stevens
“The Irish Cliffs of Moher”
Paul Theroux
“Discovering Dingle”
Virginia Woolf
from The Diary of Virginia Woolf
LEINSTER
Samuel Beckett
from Mercier and Camier
John Betjeman
“Ireland with Emily”
Elizabeth Bowen
“Unwelcome Idea”
Maeve Brennan
“The Morning After the Big Fire”
Oliver Goldsmith
from “The Deserted Village”
James Joyce
“A Little Cloud”
Jan Morris
“Do You Think Should He Have Gone Over?”
George Bernard Shaw
“Touring in Ireland”
Jonathan Swift
“An Answer to the Ballyspellin Ballad”
William Trevor
“Autumn Sunshine”
ULSTER
Brendan Behan
“I’m a British Object, Said the Belfast-Man”
Eamon Grennan
“Facts of Life, Ballymoney”
Bernard MacLaverty
“Some Surrender”
Brian Moore
“Going Home”
H.V. Morton
from In Search of Ireland
Niall Williams and Christine Breen
from The Pipes Are Calling
David A.Wilson
“Sweet Carnlough Bay”
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