Literary Ireland

by Somerville-Large, Peter

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First edition

Boulder. 1997. Roberts Rinehart. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1570981671. Photos by Tom Kelly. 115 color photos. Maps. 156 pages. hardcover. keywords: Ireland Photography Literature. DESCRIPTION - Following their highly acclaimed and bestselling previous books, Ireland: The Living Landscape and Literary Ireland, Tom Kelly and Peter Somerville-Large team up once again to provide a highly entertaining visual journey though the scenery of Ireland's many great literary traditions. Throughout time, the lives and works of Irish writers have been greatly influenced by the ever-shifting light and shadow of the Irish landscape. With his atmospheric, magical photography, Tom Kelly captures this spectacle of color and mood in what is simply his best work to date. Peter Somerville-Large provides a lively accompaniment of literary background and anecdote to the images. The book follows Ireland's famous writers - from the dawn of time to the present - to their homes, workplaces and settings of their writings, studying the influence of the landscape on their lives and visions. Arranged thematically to cover the different regions and historical traditions of Ireland's literature, photographs and text evoke the landscape of many famous writers - the Dublin of James Joyce and Brendan Behan, the Sligo of W. B. Yeats, and the islands of Liam O'Flaherty and J. M. Synge. The sens of place found in modern writers such as John B. Keane, Seamus Heaney, Edna O'Brien and Brian Friel i

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