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Padraic Colum: a biographical-critical introduction

Padraic Colum: a biographical-critical introduction

Zack R. Bowen

Drawing upon his intimate knowledge of Colum’s writings, Bowen rates Colum’s plays as something less than the masterpieces they were thought to be, and he gives a valuable reading of Colum’s novels and especially useful categorization ...
Interactions: artistic interchange between the Eastern and ...

Interactions: artistic interchange between the Eastern and ...

Colum Hourihane

Hugo Meyer's essay— the only one in this volume by a Princeton scholar— moves us back into the early Christian ... Mati Meyer devotes her essay to the iconography of Abraham's wife Sarah where it is announced that she will give birth to a ...
Pontius Pilate, Anti-semitism, and the Passion in Medieval Art

Pontius Pilate, Anti-semitism, and the Passion in Medieval Art

Colum Hourihane

... University of Leiden; His Grace Bishop Martyros, Cairo; David Mevorah, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Mati Meyer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Paul Meyvaert, Harvard University; Anastasia Mikliaeva, The State Hermitage Museum ; ...
Fearing Sellafield: what it is and why the Irish want it shut

Fearing Sellafield: what it is and why the Irish want it shut

Colum Kenny

Colum Kenny is senior lecturer in communications at Dublin City University.
Zoli: A Novel

Zoli: A Novel

Colum McCann

BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Colum McCann's TransAtlantic.
TransAtlantic

TransAtlantic

Colum McCann

Stitching these stories intricately together, Colum McCann sets out to explore the fine line between what is real and what is imagined, and the tangled skein of connections that make up our lives.
Nordic Gods and Heroes

Nordic Gods and Heroes

Padraic Colum

Padraic Colum. Bibliographical Note This Dover edition, first published in 1996, is an unabridged and slightly altered republication of the work originally published by The Macmillan Company, New York, in 1920 under the title The Children of ...
Moments that Changed Us

Moments that Changed Us

Colum Kenny

A fascinating look at moments and events in Ireland's recent past that gives a unique insight into the transformation of Ireland. Colum Kenny s cool, analytical intelligence interprets Ireland and the Irish for the twenty-first century.
The Story of the Golden Fleece

The Story of the Golden Fleece

Padraic Colum

Padraic Colum. “To the king and to the people Phrixus told his story, weeping to tell of Helle and her fall. Then King Æetes brought him into the city, and he gave him a place in the palace, and for the golden ram he had a special fold made.
Understanding Colum McCann

Understanding Colum McCann

John Cusatis

Understanding Colum McCann chronicles the Irish-born writer's journey to literary celebrity from his days as a teenage sportswriter for the Irish Press in the 1970s, through the publication of his award-winning first story, "Tresses," in ...
The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths

The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths

Padraic Colum

The Book of Northern Myths Padraic Colum. "Good fishing," said Thor, as he put his own bait on the line. "It's something for you to tell the JEsir," said Hrymer. "I thought as you were here I'd show you something bigger than salmon-fishing.
An Irish-American Odyssey: The Remarkable Rise of the ...

An Irish-American Odyssey: The Remarkable Rise of the ...

Colum Kenny

The O’Shaughnessy brothers’ story takes place between 1860 and 1950 in Illinois, Missouri, New York, and Ireland.
The Power of Silence: Silent Communication in Daily Life

The Power of Silence: Silent Communication in Daily Life

Colum Kenny

This book demonstrates that silence is eloquent, powerful, beautiful and even dangerous.
Dancer: A Novel

Dancer: A Novel

Colum McCann

The author of The Side of Brightness presents a fictional account of the life of Rudolf Nureyev, following his first ballet lessons under Anna Vasileva, his relationship with the ambitious Yulia, and his experiences with Venezuela hustler ...
This Side of Brightness

This Side of Brightness

Colum McCann

At the turn of the twentieth century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country: digging the tunnel far beneath the Hudson that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan.
The Story of King Arthur and Other Celtic Heroes

The Story of King Arthur and Other Celtic Heroes

Padraic Colum

DIV15 beguiling tales that teem with youthful heroes, lovely maidens, and menacing sorcerers and giants. /div
Thirteen Ways of Looking

Thirteen Ways of Looking

Colum McCann

A story in this collection has been longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG short story award As it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to ...
Why Are You So Sad?: A Novel

Why Are You So Sad?: A Novel

Jason Porter

This is a quick, odd, wonderful book, one that pinned me back on my heels and made me laugh." –Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin Have we all sunken into a species-wide bout of clinical depression?
Songdogs: A Novel

Songdogs: A Novel

Colum McCann

With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met and married Conor ...
The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tale of Troy

The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tale of Troy

Padraic Colum

Retelling of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for young readers recalls the horrid Cyclops, treacherous Sirens, and the evil Circe as they attempt to keep Odysseus from his wife, Penelope. 16 black-and-white illustrations.
Fishing the Sloe-Black River: Stories

Fishing the Sloe-Black River: Stories

Colum McCann

An anthology of twelve short stories about Irish misfits by the author of Dancer includes the tale of the anorexic nun who dies in a Long Island hospital and the talkative beautician who works with corpses, in a collection that explores the ...
Let The Great World Spin

Let The Great World Spin

Colum McCann

Weaving together themes of love, loss, belonging, duty and human striving, Let the Great World Spin celebrates the effervescent spirit of an age and the small beauties of everyday life.
Irish Patriot, Publisher and Advertising Agent: Kevin J. ...

Irish Patriot, Publisher and Advertising Agent: Kevin J. ...

Colum Kenny

"The son of a Dublin Fenian, Kevin J. Kenny (1881-1954) managed the business side of Sinn Féin's annual Year book for Arthur Griffith and produced An Macaomh for Patrick Pearse.
King's Inns and the Battle of the Books, 1972: Cultural ...

King's Inns and the Battle of the Books, 1972: Cultural ...

Colum Kenny

The books were sold because King's Inns was in financial difficulty, a difficulty exacerbated by the fact that the benchers had recently renovated their kitchens.

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