Mother Ireland / Edna O'Brien, with photographs by Fergus Bourke.
By: O'Brien, Edna
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Contributor(s): Bourke, Fergus.
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BookPublisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1978, c1976 (1984 [printing])Description: 89 p : ill, 1port ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0140045562.Subject(s): Ireland -- Social life and customs -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 941.5
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item | 941.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00027291 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Mother Ireland" includes seven essays seamlessly woven into an autobiographical tapestry. In her lyrical, sensuous voice, O'Brien describes growing up in rural County Clare, from her days in a convent school to her first kiss to her eventual migration to England. Weaving her own personal history with the history of Ireland, she effortlessly melds local customs and ancient lore with the fascinating people and events that shaped he young life. The result is a colorful and timeless narrative that perfectly captures the heart and soul of this harshly beautiful country.
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Kirkus Book Review
From blind Rafferty to Samuel Beckett the poets' quarrel with Mother Ireland has been continuous, bitter, and passionate. They called her Dark Rosaleen, the Hag of Beare, the proud Old Woman and, like Edna O'Brien, the ones who loved her best became exiles. This remembrance of what it was like growing up in the ""breathlessly beautiful"" mad sad countryside intertwines the heroic legends, the incantations and sentimental ballads of the past with the pinched, claustrophobic present-day realities. On the wild west coast of Clare or in the Dublin pubs ""the tendency to be swamped in melancholy and loss"" reasserts itself. Edna O'Brien writes in a voice distinctly her own, but also just like all the other writers who have flayed out at the ""Godridden"" people and dreamed, as she dreamed, of making the great escape across the water. With just a note left behond saying, ""I have gone with the razzle-dazzle gypsies-oh. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Writer Edna O'Brien was born in Clare County, Ireland, in 1930 and attended Pharmaceutical College in Dublin.O'Brien, winner of the Kingsley Amis Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Price and the European Literature Prize, has written short stories, novels, plays, television plays and screenplays. She has also written for such magazines as Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal and The New Yorker.
(Bowker Author Biography)