February 16, 2011
By Staff Reporter
IRISH WOMEN’S POETRY 1967-2000
Selected and with a
preface by Peggy O’Brien
This collection includes work by poets Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Rita Ann Higgins, Paula Meehan, Moya Cannon, Mary O’Malley and Kerry Hardie. A native New Englander, Peggy O’Brien lived in Ireland for nearly 20 years, earning her doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin. She now lectures in the English department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she is director of Irish studies. Wake Forest University Press. 314 pp. $17.95.
THE ESSENTIAL LIBRARY
FOR IRISH AMERICANS
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Morgan Llywelyn
Subtitled as an instructive, opinionated, annotated list of books for anyone in American who is Irish or Irish at heart, this book attempts to provide a reader’s road map to the various categories of interest to the Irish American. From autobiography and politics to poetry and history, Llywelyn has covered it all without shortchanging her reader. Forge Trade paperback. 320 pp. $15.95.
THE ANNULMENT
A Novel of Ireland and Los Angeles
Christopher Thomas Cairney
In a story set against the background of international women’s tennis and Southern California college football, trouble for Tom Fergusson starts in L.A. and continues during his trip to Ireland. But the real problem he faces begins there with his betrayal, first by his wife, and then by his several girlfriends. Back in Los Angeles, his salvation comes from an unlikely Irish source.
Bjolanson Publishers, P.O. Box 7, Paradise, CA 95967. 324 pp. $9.95.
IRELAND: THE TASTE AND THE COUNTRY
Mike Bunn, introduced by J.P. Donleavy
This hardcover provides a lush, gastronomic stroll around Ireland, from cheese and seafood to the better known traditional soda bread and spice buns. The book takes a tour through the counties, talking and sharing recipes with chefs and butchers around the nation. From Galway Bay oysters to the Donegal mountain lamb, the list is completed by a directory of country house, restaurants and hotels at the back of the book. Sterling Publishing. 224 pp. $24.95.