Voices in Ireland: A Traveller's Literary Companion

By P.J. Kavanagh

Book Overview

Taking the reader by the hand, P.J. Kavanagh travels the whole of Ireland, north as well as south, relating writers to places in a country dense with association and almost obsessed by locality. We see, in effect, an, infinite number of Irelands, those that formed St Patrick or James Joyce, Yeats or Somerville and Ross, Flann O'Brien or Edna O'Brien, or the dancers at Lughnasa. We also hear the magnificent defiance of O'Rahilly, last of the feudal bards. We learn how Swift kept his congregation from straying, how Lord Longford (the brother of the present one) contrived to pay his visitors' travel costs, how the fiery Mary Wollstonecraft fared as a governess, and how Yeats - a Senator in old age - trained his bodyguard in his profession. We watch George Moore get AE to introduce him to the Gods, and Brendan Behan perform Maud Gonne at the Microphone with a towel over his head.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719549744
• ISBN13: 9780719549748
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: John Murray Pubs Ltd
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.8"