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Paperback. Forges the links between disparate aspects and individuals in the Irish literary landscape, ranging back and forth between modern and medieval. From Beckett and Bowen, through MacNeice, Swift and Yeats, this work moves through Irish writing. Num Pages: 160 pages. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 178. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0019258
ISBN
9780571238699
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 18.99
€ 7.00

Paperback. A collection of poems, that is wide-ranging in its subject matter yet is everywhere concerned with watchfulness. Heedful, hard won, head-turning, heartfelt, it features poems that attempt to bring scrutiny to bear on everything, including scrutiny itself. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 158.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571316052
ISBN
9780571316052
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.10

Paperback. A collection of poems that range from an account of the first recorded case of germ warfare, through a meditation on a bar of soap, to a sequence of monologues spoken by some of the famous, or infamous, inhabitants of '7, Middagh Street', New York, on Thanksgiving Day, 1940. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571330089
ISBN
9780571330089
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.10

Paperback. In this selection from five years' worth of lyrics, accompanied by recent sonnets, Muldoon recalls the bardic traditions of his homeland where songs and poems exist somewhere in between Parnassus and Tin Pan Alley. Num Pages: 47 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 102.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Enitharmon Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781907587252
ISBN
9781907587252
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.50

hardcover. Offers the essential meaning of the term 'lyric' - a short poem sung to the accompaniment of a musical instrument. This title includes the classic themes of song: lost love, lost wars. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 192. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Price sticker inside front flap, otherwise as new
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSG0031163
ISBN
9780571299065
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 15.00

hardcover. A poet who 'began as a prodigy and has gone on to become a virtuoso' (Michael Hofmann) and hailed by Seamus Heaney as 'one of the era's true originals', Paul Muldoon seems almost to defy definition in his work. This selection, chosen by the poet himself, will serve new readers as an introduction to his work. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; 3JM; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 224 x 26. Weight in Grams: 436. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Price sticker inside front flap, otherwise as new
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition
First edition
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSG0031164
ISBN
9780571327959
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 35.00

hardcover. Focuses on an outlandish meditation on a failed poem that draws on the vocabulary of entomological forensics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 292. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 'First edition' label on front dust wrapper. Price sticker inside front flap, otherwise as new
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition
First edition
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSG0031165
ISBN
9780571269259
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 22.00

paperback. A selection of work by the Irish poet, Paul Muldoon, including extracts from "Meeting the British" and "Annals of Chile", which have been published since the last selection appeared in 1986. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 227. Very good clean copy showing minor age and wear. Gift inscription to dedication page
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0025827
ISBN
9780571177844
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.12

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138722163
ISBN
9781138722163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.05

Paperback. Against the backdrop of the aurora borealis and suffused with Norse mythology, Valhalla explores the boundaries of scientific research and tests the endurance of human love. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 13. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848424975
ISBN
9781848424975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.49

Hardcover. Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899-1949 offers a theoretically innovative reconsideration of drama produced in the Irish Renaissance, as well as an engagement with non-canonical drama in the under-researched period 1926-1949. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230536838
ISBN
9780230536838
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.27

Paperback. Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys, nobody pays either of them much attention. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 197 x 31. Weight in Grams: 458. 661pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Penguin
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780141009957
ISBN
9780141009957
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

hardcover. Explains how an adherent to the so-called Christian interpretation of Shakespeare can be a Marxist critic. Shakespeare's history plays, Siegel contends, were shaped by the Christian humanist ideology of the new Tudor aristocracy and are subtle works of art whose characters are complex creations, not mere spokesmen for social classes. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611470789
ISBN
9781611470789
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 159 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
159
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780231063579
ISBN
9780231063579
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardback. The book offers the first systematic analysis of Kafka's only work of nonfiction, the so-called Zurau fragments, and develops his proposals there for a controversial solution to human suffering and the drive toward moral betterment. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804794459
ISBN
9780804794459
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.77

Paperback. The book offers the first systematic analysis of Kafka's only work of nonfiction, the so-called Zurau fragments, and develops his proposals there for a controversial solution to human suffering and the drive toward moral betterment. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF3; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804796590
ISBN
9780804796590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. This is an exploration and analysis of Aquinas's contribution to the philosophy of religion. It examines Aquinas's contexts, his views on philosophy and theology, as well as faith and reason. His arguments for God's existence, responses to objections against God's existence and his characterization of the nature of God are examined. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HPCB; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 339.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349330300
ISBN
9781349330300
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.98

Hardcover. Drawing on theories of sublimity, trauma, and ecocriticism, this book examines how the often sharp division between European American and African American experiences of the natural world developed in American culture and history, and how those natural experiences, in turn, shaped the construction of race. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFC; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 214 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230602960
ISBN
9780230602960
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.09

Paperback.
Publisher
Doire Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
9781907682377
ISBN
9781907682377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.84

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Doire Press
Condition
New
SKU
KTK0097810
ISBN
9781907682377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.84

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