Patrick Kavanagh and the Leader

Patrick Kavanagh and the Leader
Author: Pat Walsh
Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2010
Genre: Leader (Magazine)
ISBN: 1856356647

The country was electrified as Costello's masterful, relentless cross-examination dissected Kavanagh's public and private life, and revealed the tensions within Dublin's literary circle in the 1950s. --

The Great Hunger

The Great Hunger
Author: Patrick Kavanagh
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2018-02-22
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0241339367

'I have lived in important places, times When great events were decided . . .' By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poems by the writer who transformed Anglo-Irish verse. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

The Irish Assassins

The Irish Assassins
Author: Julie Kavanagh
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2021-08-03
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0802149383

A brilliant true crime account of the assassinations that altered the course of Irish history from the “compulsively readable” writer (The Guardian). One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were funded by American supporters of Irish independence and carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of republicans armed with specially made surgeon’s blades. They put an end to the new spirit of goodwill that had been burgeoning between British Prime Minister William Gladstone and Ireland’s leader Charles Stewart Parnell as the men forged a secret pact to achieve peace and independence in Ireland—with the newly appointed Cavendish, Gladstone’s protégé, to play an instrumental role in helping to do so. In a story that spans Donegal, Dublin, London, Paris, New York, Cannes, and Cape Town, Julie Kavanagh thrillingly traces the crucial events that came before and after the murders. From the adulterous affair that caused Parnell’s downfall; to Queen Victoria’s prurient obsession with the assassinations; to the investigation spearheaded by Superintendent John Mallon, also known as the “Irish Sherlock Holmes,” culminating in the eventual betrayal and clandestine escape of leading Invincible James Carey and his murder on the high seas, The Irish Assassins brings us intimately into this fascinating story that shaped Irish politics and engulfed an Empire. Praise for Julie Kavanagh’s Nureyev: The Life “Easily the best biography of the year.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “The definitive biography of ballet’s greatest star whose ego was as supersized as his talent.” —Tina Brown, award-winning journalist and author

An Irish Literature Reader

An Irish Literature Reader
Author: Maureen O'Rourke Murphy
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2006-07-10
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780815630463

In a volume that has become a standard text in Irish studies and serves as a course-friendly alternative to the Field Day anthology, editors Maureen O’Rourke Murphy and James MacKillop survey thirteen centuries of Irish literature, including Old Irish epic and lyric poetry, Irish folksongs, and drama. For each author the editors provide a biographical sketch, a brief discussion of how his or her selections relate to a larger body of work, and a selected bibliography. In addition, this new volume includes a larger sampling of women writers.

Steal this University

Steal this University
Author: Benjamin Heber Johnson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415934848

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A Little History of Poetry

A Little History of Poetry
Author: John Carey
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2020-04-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0300252528

A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature The Times and Sunday Times, Best Books of 2020 “[A] fizzing, exhilarating book.”—Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work—over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. But this Little History is about some that have not. John Carey tells the stories behind the world’s greatest poems, from the oldest surviving one written nearly four thousand years ago to those being written today. Carey looks at poets whose works shape our views of the world, such as Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Whitman, and Yeats. He also looks at more recent poets, like Derek Walcott, Marianne Moore, and Maya Angelou, who have started to question what makes a poem “great” in the first place. For readers both young and old, this little history shines a light for readers on the richness of the world’s poems—and the elusive quality that makes them all the more enticing.

Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers

Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers
Author: Patrick Kavanaugh
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0310208068

This is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world's greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additional composers.

Collected Poems

Collected Poems
Author: Patrick Joseph Kavanagh
Publisher: Poetry Pleiade
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1992
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781857542127

P.J.Kavanagh's poems are filled with praise, with the minute observations that transform a mood, or the dazzling recollection that can change the heart. 'If description is revelation,' wrote Derek Mahon in the Irish Times, 'his revelatory gift is prodigious. Now is the time to read P.J.Kavanagh.' The contents of seven collections are included in this comprehensive volume, which traces the poet through three and a half decades and ends with his remarkable human elegy and celebration of a beloved landscape, 'Severn Aisling', described by Frank Kermode as 'quite magnificent.'

The Government of the Tongue

The Government of the Tongue
Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2014-01-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1466855681

In his volume of critical essays The Government of the Tongue, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection, Heaney's gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with characteristic exactness, and we are reminded, above all, of the essentially gratifying nature of poetry itself.