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A Raid into Dark Corners and Other Essays
by Benedict Kiely
Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2000 by Cork University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-85918-235-2, ISBN: 1-85918-235-6

"Essays from one of the most popular literary critics and writers in Ireland for over fifty years.In these selected essays, published to mark his eightieth birthday, Benedict Kiely writes principally about the writers of his native Ireland. Written across half a century – a number of them were first published in periodicals in the min-1940’s – they affirm the breadth of his reading and interests; novelists of the nineteenth century, lik ..."






There Was an Ancient House(Updated)
by Benedict Kiely
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1998 by Wolfhound Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-86327-576-0, ISBN: 0-86327-576-1

"Within the walls of the ancient house, thirty novices try hard to conform to the religious life. Frawley, boisterous and unconventional; Barragry, the cynical journalist who has left behind a full life and a good woman; MacKenna, sensitive and literary, guarding a frightening secret which he dreads revealing to the Fathers-each must answer that overwhelming question: "Why the hell am I here?"Once banned for being "indecent and obscene," ..."






The Waves Behind Us
by Benedict Kiely
Hardcover, 190 Pages, Published 1999 by Methuen Publishing Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-413-70160-2, ISBN: 0-413-70160-3

"Kiely, Thomas (author's father): in Dublin, 8, 10; walking, 10-11; in BK's story, 20- 1; marriage, 20 Kiernan, Delia see Murphy, Delia Kiernan, T.J., 30, 52, 95, 157-9 Kilian, St, 159-60, 162 Killanin, Michael, 127 Kilroy, Thomas, xiv King, Mark, 129 ... 171 Lawrence, D.H., 140 Ledbetter, Gordon T.: The Great Irish Tenor, 94-6 Lemass, Sean, 135, 140 Lennon, Tommy, 99, 126 Leonard, Hugh, xiv Leslie, Sir Shane, 133 Letts, Winifred M.: ..."






Borstal Boy(3rd Edition)
(Nonpareil Books)
by Brendan Behan, Benedict Kiely, J.K.Rowling
Paperback, 386 Pages, Published 2000 by David R Godine
ISBN-13: 978-1-56792-105-2, ISBN: 1-56792-105-1

""Without a doubt the most important book of its kind published this century."―New StatesmanThis miracle of autobiography and prison literature begins: Friday, in the evening, the landlady shouted up the stairs: 'Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred Heart, Boy, there's two gentlemen here to see you.' I knew by the screeches of her that the gentlemen were not calling to inquire after my health . . . I grabbed my suitcase, containing Pot. Chlor., S ..."






Fairy & Folk Tales of Ireland(1st Edition)
by William Butler Yeats, Benedict Kiely, W. B. Yeats, Wb Yeats
Paperback, 408 Pages, Published 1998 by Scribner
ISBN-13: 978-0-684-82952-4, ISBN: 0-684-82952-5

"The Classic One-Volume Introduction To Ireland'S Rich Folklore: William Butler Yeats'S Magical Selection Of Traditional Irish Fairy And Folk Tales Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland combines two books of Irish folklore collected and edited by William Butler Yeats -- Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, first published in 1888, and Irish Fairy Tales, published in 1892. In this delightful gathering of legend and song, the familiar c ..."






The Waves behind Us
Further Memoirs
by Benedict Kiely
Paperback, 190 Pages, Published 2000 by Methuen Publishing Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-413-75120-1, ISBN: 0-413-75120-1






Dogs Enjoy the Morning(Updated)
by Benedict Kiely
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1998 by Wolfhound Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-86327-528-9, ISBN: 0-86327-528-1

"A comic novel set in Cosmona, a fictitious village somewhere in Ireland, peopled by curious characters like:The doctor and his plump dusky-skinned wife, secretly being watched by Gabriel Rock, the peeping Tom with one good eye... The shell-shocked chaplain who stalks through the village with three hounds close at heel like the legendary Fionn MacCool... Cathy Hanafin, who can only drink red wine, and her husband Whispering Christy..."






Charles Lever(1st Edition)
The Lost Victorian (Ulster Editions & Monographs)
by Stephen Haddelsey, Benedict Kiely
Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2000 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-86140-420-9, ISBN: 0-86140-420-3

"At the peak of his career, Charles Lever (1806-1872) was one of the most successful novelists in the English language, and the only mid-19th century Irish novelist to vie with Charles Dickens in popularity and earning potential. Yet within three decades of his death, his works had sunk into obscurity. The light-heartedness of his earliest novels, "The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer" (1839) and "Charles O'Malley - the Irish Dragoon" (184 ..."






Images of Dublin(1st Edition)
A Time Remembered
by Bill Doyle, Benedict Kiely
Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2002 by Lilliput Pr Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-1-901866-74-2, ISBN: 1-901866-74-2

"Like Robert Doisneau's Paris, Bill Doyle's Dublin is a defined milieu. In these photographs that span half a century, from the 50s to 90s, Doyle gives us a composite view of a city and its inhabitants, capturing the spirit of a time and place, a pre-boom Dublin still haunted by the ghosts of history. From the narrow alleyways and back streets of the north inner city to the leafy environs of the south side, these beautiful, dramatic pict ..."






Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland(Reprint)
by W. B. Yeats, William Butler Yeats
Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 1998 by Bbs Pub Corp
ISBN-13: 978-0-88365-926-7, ISBN: 0-88365-926-3






The Captain with the Whiskers
by Benedict Kiely, Thomas Kilroy
Hardcover, 292 Pages, Published 2004 by Methuen Publishing Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-413-77391-3, ISBN: 0-413-77391-4

"In Bingen House, on the edge of the Atlantic, lives Captain Conway Chesney - small, neat, efficient and a diabolical domestic tyrant."






Drink to the Bird
An Omagh Boyhood Recalled
by Benedict Kiely
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1999 by Methuen Publishing Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-413-74060-1, ISBN: 0-413-74060-9






Drink to the Bird
A Memoir
by Benedict Kiely
Paperback, Published 1999
ISBN-13: 978-0-413-74080-9, ISBN: 0-413-74080-3






The Collected Stories of Benedict Kiely(1st Edition)
by Benedict Kiely
Paperback, 784 Pages, Published 2003 by David R Godine
ISBN-13: 978-1-56792-248-6, ISBN: 1-56792-248-1

"Among the best writers this company has published is Ireland's Benedict Kiely. His first book to be released in this country, The State of Ireland, received a front page New York Times Book Review notice in which Guy Davenport wrote, "The first meaning of 'the state of Ireland' is that it's a place where stories are still told, deliciously and by masters of the art, of whom Benedict Kiely is one, perhaps the foremost." This collection w ..."






The Collected Stories of Benedict Kiely.
by Benedict Kiely, Introduction-Colum Mccann
Hardcover, 608 Pages, Published 2001 by Methuen Publishing Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-413-75340-3, ISBN: 0-413-75340-9






Coll. Stories of Ben. Kiely
by Benedict Kiely
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2002 by Methuen Publishing Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-413-75350-2, ISBN: 0-413-75350-6






Counties of Contention(Reprint)
A Study of the Origins and Implications of the Partition of Ireland
by Benedict Kiely
Paperback, 198 Pages, Published 2004 by The Mercier Press Ltd
Facsimile
ISBN-13: 978-1-85635-430-1, ISBN: 1-85635-430-X

"First published in 1945, this work provides an insight into an Ulsterman's view of how a compromise of understanding could be found to allow the men and women of Northern Ireland to live in peace with each other. It also aim to solve forever, the thing, that generations of Englishmen have known as 'the Irish problem'."






The Collected Stories of Benedict Kiely Kiely, Benedict and McCann, Colum(Updated)
by Benedict Kiely
Paperback, 608 Pages, Published 2002 by Methuen Publishing Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-413-77205-3, ISBN: 0-413-77205-5






In Memoriam; Darcy O'Brien 1939-1998; a Supplement to the Recorder
the Journal of the American Irish Historical Society; volume 11, number 2; Fall 1998
by Christopher Cahill, Stanley Crouch, Thomas Flanagan, Adrian Frazier, Seamus Heaney, Benedict Kiely, Conor Cruise O'brien
Paperback, Published 1998 by The Recorder
ISBN-13: 978-91-1-030184-9, ISBN: 91-1-030184-4

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