seamus deane

This is the story of a haunted Irish childhood. The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with political hatred, fami

Between my finger and my thumbThe squat pen rests; snug as a gun. -- from 'Digging'With its lyrical and descriptiv

"Sweeney Astray" is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work "Buile Suibhne". Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adven

Provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. This book reprints the author's chosen

Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf" is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. I

Foreign Affections comprises a number of new and revised essays on the influences which shaped the thought of another leading Irishman, Edmund Burke.

A collection of essays exploring the future of literary studies by focusing on the relationship between literary theory, philosophy, and cultural stud

Seamus Deane was one of the most vital and versatile authors of our time. Small World presents an unmatched survey of Irish writing, and of writing ab

Harper discovers that the addition of a new baby to the family does not mean there is less love to go around, but instead there is more to share. When

Reprint of the original, first published in 1858.

As the lead singer of Modern Romance, he toured the world, as the screenwriter of Kinky Boots he conquered Hollywood, now comes Geoff Deane s latest a