The Plays of Maura Laverty

The Plays of Maura Laverty
Author: Cathy Leeney
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2023-04-15
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1802076603

Published here for the first time, Maura Laverty’s plays Liffey Lane, Tolka Row and A Tree in the Crescent are rooted in 1950s Dublin, its territories and enclaves. Teeming with the lives of the poor, the ambitious, the trapped and the struggling, the plays are moving, funny and vividly alive. They capture the capital in a state of transformation – reaching for modernisation while still enmired in stagnant class divisions, poor housing and narrow social values. Key to all three plays are questions of home, the lives of women and girls, and the impact of conservative government policies and church attitudes. Already a public figure in Irish life, and an influencer before her time through her fiction, cookery books and broadcasting, Laverty’s plays met with huge success when staged in 1951 and 1952 by Hilton Edwards of the Gate Theatre Company at Dublin’s Gaiety and Gate Theatres and on tour. Laverty’s trilogy is a significant and long-awaited part of the twentieth-century Irish theatrical canon. This volume presents the Trilogy, including a preface by Christopher Fitz-Simon, who knew and worked with Laverty. The editors’ introduction contextualises Laverty’s work and considers the theatrical values of the plays.

Maura Laverty's Full & Plenty

Maura Laverty's Full & Plenty
Author: Maura Laverty
Publisher: Anvil Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-09
Genre: Bread
ISBN: 9781901737295

This down-home cookbook will tantalise your senses with almost 300 Irish recipes for bread, cakes and pastries, tried and tested and guaranteed to please. Interspersed with the recipes are stories, anecdotes, helpful hints and food folklore, told in the inimitable style that made Maura Laverty one of Ireland's best-selling authors. Once you realise how easy it is to make your own bread and cakes, your kitchen will never be without the delicious smell of baking again.

Culinary Landmarks

Culinary Landmarks
Author: Elizabeth Driver
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 1326
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0802047904

Culinary Landmarks is a definitive history and bibliography of Canadian cookbooks from the beginning, when La cuisinière bourgeoise was published in Quebec City in 1825, to the mid-twentieth century. Over the course of more than ten years Elizabeth Driver researched every cookbook published within the borders of present-day Canada, whether a locally authored text or a Canadian edition of a foreign work. Every type of recipe collection is included, from trade publishers' bestsellers and advertising cookbooks, to home economics textbooks and fund-raisers from church women's groups. The entries for over 2,200 individual titles are arranged chronologically by their province or territory of publication, revealing cooking and dining customs in each part of the country over 125 years. Full bibliographical descriptions of first and subsequent editions are augmented by author biographies and corporate histories of the food producers and kitchen-equipment manufacturers, who often published the books. Driver's excellent general introduction sets out the evolution of the cookbook genre in Canada, while brief introductions for each province identify regional differences in developments and trends. Four indexes and a 'Chronology of Canadian Cookbook History' provide other points of access to the wealth of material in this impressive reference book.

No More Than Human

No More Than Human
Author: Maura Laverty
Publisher: Little Brown and Company (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1986
Genre: English fiction
ISBN: 9781844081936

Delia spends her early years living in the village of Ballyderring on the edge of the Bog of Allen, her life enriched by the beauty of the Irish countryside. Then one cold November day, Delia stands poised for independance and Spain.

Irish Traditional Cooking

Irish Traditional Cooking
Author: Darina Allen
Publisher: Kyle Books
Total Pages: 1085
Release: 2018-11-05
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 085783696X

Ireland's rich culinary heritage is brought to life in this new edition of Darina's bestselling Irish Traditional Cooking. With 300 traditional dishes, including 100 new recipes, this is the most comprehensive and entertaining tome on the subject. Each recipe is complemented by tips, tales, historical insights and common Irish customs, many of which have been passed down from one generation to the next. Darina's fascination with Ireland's culinary heritage is illustrated with chapters on Broths & Soups, Fish, Game, Vegetables and Cakes & Biscuits. She uses the finest of Ireland's natural produce to give us recipes such as Sea Spinach Soup, Potted Ballycotton Shrimps with Melba Toast and Rhubarb Fool.

Liffey Lane

Liffey Lane
Author: Maura Laverty
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1947
Genre: Dublin (Ireland)
ISBN:

Story of a little girl of the Dublin slums, with incidental portrayals of people in various walks of life, whom she meets as she delivers the daily paper.

He Is Mine and I Have No Other

He Is Mine and I Have No Other
Author: Rebecca O'Connor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2019
Genre: Adolescence
ISBN: 9781786892621

Shortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award'Powerful and searing' Sunday TimesIn 1990s small-town Ireland, fifteen-year-old Lani Devine falls in love with Leon Brady, whose mother is buried in the cemetery next to Lani's house. Quiet and strange, Leon is haunted by a brutal family tragedy that has left scars much more than skin-deep. As Lani falls deeper and deeper in love with him, old wounds begin to reopen and start to change the shape of their lives forever.