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Dublin   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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Eyewitness Guide Dublin  •   Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2003 •  PAPER  • 176 PAGES
A compact guide to sites, attractions and places of Dublin featuring excellent maps and hundreds of full color photographs and site diagrams. With select recommendations on where to eat and stay. (IRE85, $20.00)
  Eyewitness Guide Dublin
Ireland, A Concise History  •  Conor Cruise O'Brien
HISTORY •  1985 •  PAPER  • 192 PAGES
With its lively, even-handed tone and hundreds of well-integrated photographs and illustrations, this book conveys the essence of Irish history and the Irish experience. Historian, scholar and statesman O'Brien is a grand figure in Ireland, and he sure can write. (IRE20, $19.95)
  Ireland, A Concise History
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales  •  W.B. Yeats
LITERATURE •  2004 •  PAPER  • 380 PAGES
This volume combines two books of folklore edited by the Nobel Prize-winning poet who spearheaded the Celtic Renaissance in the early 20th century. These stories of changelings, ghosts, mermaids, demons, saints, priests and fairies are enchanting and entertaining. Originally published in 1918. (IRE04, $13.95)
  Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
Dubliners  •  James Joyce
LITERATURE •  1992 •  PAPER  • 317 PAGES
This realistic portrait of what Joyce called "the second city of the British Empire" was written when the author was only 25. It is a milestone in the history of prose fiction -- and remains perhaps the finest collection of connected short stories ever published. The details of Dublin life among the lower middle class of shopkeepers, clerks and tradesmen illustrates the social decline and disillusionment of a defeated colonial city. (IRE15, $9.95)
  Dubliners
Dublin Map  •   Borch Maps
2004 •  MAP
A laminated, folded map of the city center of Dublin, at a scale of 1:12,000. (IRE96, $7.95)
  Dublin Map
 

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Dublin, A Cultural History  •  Siobhan Kilfeather   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This literary guide to Ireland's capital, organized by definitive events and personalities, covers Dublin's beginnings as a 10th-century Norse trading center to the establishment of Trinity College and the election of Mary Robinson. (IRE172, $24.99)
 
 
Dublin, The Best Places to Eat, Drink, And Stay  •  Georgina Campbell   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Organized by city district, this compact and comprehensive guide includes maps and plenty of information on food, shopping and accommodations. (IRE163, $10.95)
 
 
Fodor's Dublin's 25 Best  •   Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This handy pocket guide includes a helpful map and information on city highlights. (IRE30, $11.95)
 
 
Insight Pocket Guide Dublin  •   Insight Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This slim, illustrated guide features a pullout map. (IRE187, $13.95)
 
 
A Book of Migrations, Some Passages in Ireland  •  Rebecca Solnit   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  In this intriguing book, the American-born author (now an Irish citizen) introduces the country, its history and literature in a series of essays. Solnit, a wonderful writer, is a thoughtful questioner of the modern Irish identity. (IRE44, $14.00)
 
 
A Traveller's History of Ireland  •  Peter Neville   • HISTORY  •  From the Celts to the Norman invasions and modern-day Ireland, this short history is highly recommended for those who would like a brief overview of the Emerald Isle through the centuries. (GBR39, $14.95)
 
 
How the Irish Saved Civilization  •  Thomas Cahill   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This best-selling history tells the generally unknown story of Ireland's preservation of classical learning in the Dark Ages. (IRE07, $14.95)
 
 
Cathedrals and Castles, Building in the Middle Ages  •  Alain Erlande-Brandenburg   • ART & ARCHITECTURE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  A pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages featuring hundreds of drawings and color illustrations and a brief chronology. (MED07, $12.95)
 
 
The Book of Kells, An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin  •  Bernard Meehan   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Written by the keeper of manuscripts at Trinity College, this book features 110 color illustrations, including enlargements, of some of the more spectacular decorations in this most famous of medieval manuscripts. (IRE09, $19.95)
 
 
Green Shadows, White Whale  •  Ray Bradbury   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Set in Dublin, this 1953 hymn to Ireland recounts Bradbury's hilarious experiences writing the Moby Dick screenplay with John Huston (who Bradbury affectionately refers to as the "Devil Himself"). (IRE53, $12.95)
 
 
For the Love of Ireland, A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers  •  Susan Cahill   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A literary anthology featuring famous Irish writers such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Frank McCourt and Samuel Beckett. (IRE77, $15.95)
 
 
Ireland in Mind  •  Alice Powers   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Three centuries of great writing from authors like Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Frank McCourt. (IRE71, $13.00)
 
 
The Reader's Companion to Ireland  •  Alan Ryan   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A wonderful collection of stories and excerpts from classic and modern authors such as Eric Newby, Jan Morris, Heinrich Boll and Paul Theroux. (IRE41, $17.00)
 
 
Death in Dublin, A Novel of Suspense  •  Bartholomew Gill   • MYSTERY  •  This last of the Peter McGarr series revolves around the theft of the revered Book of Kells, a dastardly blow to religion, politics and all things Irish. (IRE159, $6.99)
 
 
In a Time of Violence  •  Eavan Boland   • LITERATURE  •  Poems of Ireland and the violences there --personal, political, historical and familial. (IRE86, $12.95)
 
 
The Death of a Joyce Scholar  •  Bartholomew Gill   • MYSTERY  •  In this eighth Peter McGarr mystery, Trinity College professor Kevin Coyle is found fatally stabbed after an annual Bloomsday tour. (IRE150, $6.99)
 
 
The Ginger Man  •  J.P. Donleavy   • LITERATURE  •  The rollicking tale of the young American Sebastian Dangerfield out and about in 1950s Dublin captures the spirit of the place. (IRE169, $13.00)
 
 
The Princes of Ireland, The Dublin Saga  •  Edward Rutherfurd   • LITERATURE  •  An epic novel drawing on the events, personalities and drama of Dublin from settlement through the Easter Rebellion. (IRE145, $16.95)
 
 
The Vintage Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction  •  Dermot Bolger   • LITERATURE  •  A marvelous sampling of great writers and writing in contemporary Ireland, including Samuel Beckett, Edna O'Brien and William Trevor. (IRE61, $16.95)
 
 
Ulysses  •  James Joyce   • LITERATURE  •  This landmark work in the history of literature is by turns a day in the life of Leopold Bloom, a reimagining of Homer's Odyssey, and a dazzling tour of turn-of-the-century Dublin. (IRE131, $17.95)
 
 


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