February 16, 2011
By Staff Reporter
TO IRELAND, I
Paul Muldoon
The Irish-born writer, a poet and professor of poetry and humanities at Princeton, has produced a firework display of scholarship, wit and intrigue in an idiosyncratic wander through the alphabet of Irish literature, from Beckett and Bowen, through MacNeice, Swift, Yeats and Joyce. From his 1998 Clarendon Lectures in English. Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10016-4314. 150 pp. $24.95.
LIVE IN BELFAST
The Irish Tenors
Anthony Kearns, Ronan Tynan
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and Finbar Wright
Recorded live at The Waterfront Belfast, this DVD features a wide selection of traditional and contemporary Irish songs sung by tenors Ronan Tynan, Anthony Kearns and Finbar Wright, with a guest appearance by original member John McDermott. Songs include "Carrickfergus," "Molly Malone," "The Kerry Dance," "Star of the County Down" and a Percy French medley. POINT Enertainment Ltd.
NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD
The Men Who Built the
Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-69
Stephen E. Ambrose
The historian and bestselling author brings to life the epic story of one of America’s most dazzling feats: the construction of the transcontinental railroad. The book focuses on how the railroad was conceived, financed and constructed, with a special emphasis on the ordinary men — Irish, Chinese, Civil War veterans, and others — who signed on to do the grueling, dangerous labor. Ambrose writes: "Next to winning the Civil War and abolishing slavery, building the first transcontinental railroad . . . was the greatest achievement of the American people in the nineteenth century." Simon & Schuster. 432 pp. $28.
WHAT ARE YOU LIKE?
Anne Enright
Enright, in her U.S. debut, has produced a beautifully written and constructed novel that, over the course of more than 20 years, moves between Dublin, New York and London, following the lives of Maria and Rose, telling the stories of the women, who are haunted by their missing selves. Atlantic Monthly Press. 272 pp. $24. (Available Sept. 22.)