Read Ireland Book News - Issue 56
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Exploring Irish Music and Dance by Diana Boullier (Hardback; 7.99 IRP / 12.00 USD) [Add To Basket]
The perfect introduction to Irish music and dance! Handed down over the generations, Irish music and dance have travelled from kitchens and cross-roads on the world stage. But where did all these tunes come from? What makes Irish music unique and so lively? This book tells about the tunes, where they come from, their weird and whacky titles, the players, the old masters, the dance steps and patterns … and lots more. There are stories too from the oral tradition which weave together fairy lore with music and dance. The book also contains wonderful illustrations by Julian Friers.
Images of Aran: Photographs by Father Browne 1925 & 1938 edited by E.E. O'Donnell (Paperback; 9.99 IRP / 15.00 USD) [Add To Basket]
These images provide a haunting portrait of the Aran Islands with all their wild landscapes, seascapes, ancient forts and ruins; in particular, Father Browne's photographs of people - at play, at work, children, wedding groups - capture the spirit and customs of a unique way of life.
Sun Dancing: A Medieval Vision by Geoffrey Moorhouse (Paperback; 9.50 IRP / 15.00 USD) [Add To Basket]
Off the west coast of Ireland, just visible on a clear day, two jagged rocks rise sheer our of the Atlantic: the Skelligs - adamantly inhospitable and uninhabited today. Yet, the larger of the two was for 600 years home to a community of monks. In a remarkable feat of imagination and reconstruction, the author shows how this community worshipped and survived. The book is astonishingly effective in making the monks come alive again as well as being a hugely impressive history of monastic life in Medieval Ireland.
Bernard Shaw by Michael Holroyd (Paperback; 12.00 IRP / 18.00 USD) [Add To Basket]
The one-volume definitive edition of Holroyd's masterpiece biography, this elegant volume is a conglomerate of four detailed volumes and it will serve admirably for the millennium and do justice to a great Irishman.
Everything Irish by AnneMarie O'Grady (Paperback; 5.00 IRP / 7.50 USD) [Add To Basket]
This book is an exciting introductory book to all things Irish for children. Children learn a little about a broad range of Irish topics and make ornaments, souvenirs and wearable or decorative items based on Irish themes. The reader can make a laughing leprechaun, a charming Irish cottage, a troupe of dancers, Celtic-style jewellery and learns about Ireland's past and about life in Ireland. Also teaches 'The Leprechaun Song.'
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