British Irish category: 5386 books

A virtuosic study of one man's descent into religious mania in small-town Ireland. Inishfree might seem like a quaint Irish town, but fierce evangelist Thomas Magill knows better. He knows that jovial Dwain Flynn is a miserable drunk, that Timmy O'Leary enslaves his lovely mother, and that...

It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories are dramatically alive. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's youth: High Victorian morality is under siege from the Aesthetic...

A white-knuckle ride through a nightmare Dublin, where enemies and allies are interchangeable, this electrifying play won the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. First we meet Howie. He tells us how, one night, he gets caught up in a...

The title poem of this collection, set on an Irish island, tells of a pilgrim on an inner journey that leads him back into the world that formed him, and then forward to face the crises of the present. Writing in The Washington Post Book World, Hugh Kenner called the narrative sequence in Seamus Heaney's Station Island "as fine a long poem as we've had in fifty years."

Ian Duhig’s erudite, compassionate and often wonderfully droll poetry sits at the intersection of the literary and folk traditions, and moves in an easy and masterly fashion between them. While this has lent his verse an enviable musicality and force, it has also written him a visa to places poets...

George Bernard Shaw was a prolific Irish playwright who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925.  Shaw’s famous plays include Man and Superman and Pygmalion which was adapted into the classic musical My Fair Lady.  This edition of Fanny’s First Play includes a table of contents.

The Story and Song of Black Roderick Dora Sigerson Shorter, irish poet (1866-1918) This ebook presents «The Story and Song of Black Roderick», from Dora Sigerson Shorter. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01- ABOUT THIS BOOK -02- THE STORY AND SONG OF BLACK RODERICK

A Will and No Will and The New Play Criticiz’d Charles Macklin, irish actor and dramatist (690-1797) This ebook presents «A Will and No Will and The New Play Criticiz’d», from Charles Macklin. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of...

Is killing ever justified? This gripping drama examines the terrible choices of a teenage terrorist and a young mother in an exploration of contemporary morality. On her way home from a traumatic weekend, Chris is seeking solace with her aunt near the Northern Irish border. Parking her car, Chris...

The playwright J. M. Synge was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and was one of the co-founders of the Abbey Theatre. Today he is best known for his controversial play ‘The Playboy of the Western World’, which caused riots in Dublin during its opening run. Synge's writings are chiefly...

The Tinker’s Wedding John Millington Synge, irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer and collector of folklore (1871-1909) This ebook presents «The Tinker’s Wedding», from John Millington Synge. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter...

In Shadow of the Glen John Millington Synge, irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer and collector of folklore (1871-1909) This ebook presents «In Shadow of the Glen», from John Millington Synge. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected....

First staged at London's National Theatre in 1980, having been commissioned by Peter Hall, The Romans in Britain contrasts Julius Caesar's Roman invasion of Celtic Britain with the Saxon invasion of Romano-Celtic Britain, and finally Britain's involvement in Northern Ireland during The Troubles of...

The second collection of plays from the multi-award winning author. Featuring: The Weir A magical, compelling play set in present day Dublin on Christmas Eve. Undertaker John Plunkett is sharing memories of funerals over the years and dispensing advice to his young assistant. But the...