British Irish category: 5386 books

The author sees writing poetry as a way to capture observations, emotions and philosophical thoughts in a distilled format that helps him re-live them with the same delight at a later date. Poetry also is one of his preferred ways of communicating with others and, if they are moved to a deeper understanding...

The three short plays in this publication by award winning Irish playwright Anne Le Marquand Hartigan span her playwriting career from Strings in 1981, Cake in 1984 and the recently commissioned In Other Worlds first performed by the students of Ohio Northern University in 2003.  Tackling...

Comprised of two separate collections of poetry, this compilation explores a world newly discovered in the imagination. The first is an exhilarating, freewheeling ride through landscapes and languages, filled with the enchantment and the melancholy of the open road—from tramping the Gobi desert...

Famous for his electrifying poetry readings, Paul Durcan marks four decades of composing silently and reciting aloud with this magnificent collection, which brings together for the first time the critically acclaimed poet's own choice of his work from his first book, Endsville (1967), to The Laughter...

‘I’m sorry I didn’t get all that. It could be a bad connection – I’m not sure if it’s you or me. Could I ask you to repeat it?’ In 2000 in Leixlip, co. Kildare, an aunt and 3 sisters boarded themselves into their home and entered into a suicide pact that lasted 40 days. We weren’t...

Winner of The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry First Collection Prize 2017. Winner of the Shine/Strong Poetry Award 2017. Several Deer is the debut collection of a young Northern Irish poet. As much indebted to Bob Dylan and Lana Del Rey as to Emily Dickinson and George Herbert, Crothers writes about...

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 Mrs. Warren’s Profession includes a table of contents.

From the winner of the Betty Trask Award and the Premio Ciampi International Prize for Poetry comes a collection which explores a 1960s Catholic upbringing in Cork, Ireland, set against the backdrop of Graceland and the poet's love for the music of Elvis Presley. Drawing on Evans' first five collections,...

Daniel Corkery's The Hidden Ireland: A Study of Gaelic Munster in the Eighteenth Century, has had sustained appeal since its publication in 1925. There Corkery used literary evidence to sustain a picture of relieved poverty and oppression, spiritual counterpart to the social and economic conditions...

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1815) was an Irish poet and social activist. For a long period of time he was the owner of the London Theatre Royal. His most famous literary works are ‘The Rivals’, ‘The School for Scandal’ and ‘The Duenna’. Richard Sheridan was elected a member of the...

3 works of Ernest Temple Thurston Anglo-Irish poet, playwright and author (1879-1933) This ebook presents a collection of 3 works of Ernest Temple Thurston. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - Sally Bishop - The City of Beautiful Nonsense - The Green Bough

This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Plays: The Importance Of Being Earnest + Salome + A Woman Of No Importance + Lady Windermere’s Fan and more” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Oscar Wilde wrote nine plays in all between 1879 and 1894....

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 The Glimpse of Reality includes a table of contents.

According to Wikipedia: "Back to Methuselah (A Metabiological Pentateuch), by George Bernard Shaw consists of a preface (An Infidel Half Century) and a series of five plays: In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden), The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas: Present Day, The Thing Happens:...