For the Love of Ireland: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers - Susan Cahill

No one has produced more great English literature than Ireland, birthplace of an astonishing number of poets, storytellers, and dramatists. Cahill has chosen more than 60 pieces that reveal the intensity of feeling these writers possess for their homeland. Included are writings by James Joyce, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, William Butler Yeats, and others. \nWelcome to the Ireland of its Writers \nWalk the streets of Dublin with Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Roddy Doyle. Contemplate the wild glens of Wicklow with John Millington Synge and Seamus Heaney. Wander the thrilling Cliffs of Moher with Wallace Stevens. Visit antic Limerick with Frank McCourt; mysterious Coole Park with Lady Gregory; breathtaking Sligo with William Butler Yeats; wild Donegal with Brien Friel; and hidden Clare with Edna O'Brien. \n \nNo place has inspired more great literature than Ireland, which in each new generation gives birth to an astonishing number of poets, storytellers, and dramatists. For the literary pilgrim to arrive, book in hand, at the pub where Joyce set a scene or the mountain where Yeats imagined a myth is to uncover fresh meaning in the works of writers in love with their native landscape. \n \nIn For the Love of Ireland, Susan Cahill offers the jewels of Irish literature. Each selection is followed by traveler's advice on how to find and fully experience the place that's about. Whether you take this book with you to Ireland or savor it in your armchair, you will be enriched, ennobled, and entertained by writers of remarkable range and at the top of their form.\n