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Author | : Richard Power |
Publisher | : Apollo Library |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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A quiet, engaging novel about the death of a priest in 1950s Ireland and a world on the cusp of change.
Author | : Richard Power |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 1988-12-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781853710094 |
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Author | : Richard Power |
Publisher | : Apollo Library |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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A quiet, engaging novel about the death of a priest in 1950s Ireland and a world on the cusp of change.
Author | : Anne Mary Murphy |
Publisher | : Inanna Publications & Education Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781771331807 |
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This book tells a story that nobody knows because at the time the story happened, nobody cared. The individual lives of the labouring Irish were unrecorded, irrelevant. The Hungry Grass weaves the threads of daily routine, annual cycles, religious faith, fairy belief, communal practice, and political reality to show as clear a picture as possible of the very complex life among tenant families in the nineteenth-century. The poet begins with the little she knows of her Murphy ancestors: the names and birthdates of the six who survived to emigrate, and the name of the parish where they lived. I also knew from my triple-great-grandfathers obituary that two children did not survive. This volume is one continuous poem that unfolds over the course of fifteen years. It never falters in evoking its theme, or in being focused and concise, with impeccable word choices, and unfailing, echoing rhythm. When employed, the rhyming is subtle and musical. The shape of thought, which is a consistent seven-syllable line with occasional variation of one or two syllables, is masterful in its execution of sound and sense. This is poetry that will show anyone who doubts it the continuing and necessary love of this craft, this art.
Author | : Mary-Beth O'Shea-Noonan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1998-03-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780941895149 |
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Author | : Denise Fleming |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1995-03-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0805039414 |
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In the Tall, Tall Grass is a 1992 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award Honor Book for Picture Books.
Author | : Vincent Woods |
Publisher | : Cork University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Famines in literature |
ISBN | : 9780997837445 |
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Taking poetry as an act of witness and restorative memory, this essay traces the development of poems relating to Ireland's Great Hunger from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. An international landscape of connected experience emerges through the work of Eavan Boland, Alan Shapiro, Patrick Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney, Paul Celan and many poets in Ireland, the U.S., Germany and Australia. In examining a world of poetry, the connections and parallels to contemporary famines and migrations become clear, and the response of Irish poets to famine in other countries is acknowledged. Vincent Woods shows how the post-Famine diaspora influenced the work of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman; and in presenting new work by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain and Miriam de Burca, argues that the creative response to the Irish Famine is ongoing and vital. Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and researchers, as well as general readers, covering many aspects of the Famine in Ireland from 1845-1852 - the worst demographic catastrophe of nineteenth-century Europe. The essays are interdisciplinary in nature, and make available new research in Famine studies by internationally established scholars in history, art history, cultural theory, philosophy, media history, political economy, literature and music.
Author | : John Christopher |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2009-04-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0141192011 |
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A thought experiment in future-shock survivalism' Robert MacFarlane 'Gripping ... of all science fiction's apocalypses, this is one of the most haunting' Financial Times WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANE A post-apocalyptic vision of the world pushed to the brink by famine, John Christopher's science fiction masterpiece The Death of Grass includes an introduction by Robert MacFarlane in Penguin Modern Classics. At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated Asia, causing mass starvation and riots, but Europe is safe and a counter-virus is expected any day. Except, it turns out, the governments have been lying to their people. When the deadly disease hits Britain, society starts to descend into barbarism. As John and his family try to make it across country to the safety of his brother's farm in a hidden valley, their humanity is tested to its very limits. A chilling psychological thriller and one of the greatest post-apocalyptic novels ever written, The Death of Grass shows people struggling to hold on to their identities as the familiar world disintegrates - and the terrible price they must pay for surviving. John Christopher (1922-2012) was the pen name of Samuel Youd, a prolific writer of science fiction. His novels were popular during the 1950s and 1960s, most notably The Death Of Grass (1956), The World in Winter (1962), and Wrinkle in the Skin (1965), all works depicting ordinary people struggling in the midst of apocalyptic catastrophes. In 1966 he started writing science-fiction for adolescents; The Tripods trilogy, the Prince in Waiting trilogy (also known as the Sword of the Spirits trilogy) and The Lotus Caves are still widely read today. Ifyou enjoyed The Death of Grass, you might like John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
Author | : Jessie Haas |
Publisher | : Astra Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2020-10-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1635923832 |
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In this horse adventure perfect for fans of Black Beauty, a Connemara pony is pampered and beloved, then abused and neglected, until twelve-year-old Rae brings love to her again. Princess lives a charmed life of brown sugar cubes, crunchy apples, sweet grass, and adoration. But it is a lonely life; her elderly owner keeps Princess separate from other ponies so his show-ring champion will remain pristine. When Princess's owner has a stroke, she is thrust into the care of an unscrupulous trainer and his wife, who steal from the farm and leave. Abandoned to starve with other, tougher ponies, Princess is bereft of all hope. Meanwhile, a girl named Rae wants a pony more than anything and is striving to make her unrealistic dream a reality. Rae and Princess need each other, though neither realizes this when they eventually meet. Rae must learn to see beyond Princess's scars and Princess must learn to trust again in order for them both to find their own hidden strengths and a home in each other.
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Total Pages | : 906 |
Release | : 1912 |
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