Last Night's Fun : In and Out of Time With Irish Music

Carson, Ciaran

ISBN 10: 0865475318 / ISBN 13: 9780865475311

Published by North Point Press, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Last Night's Fun : In and Out of Time With Irish Music
• Publisher: North Point Press
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865475318
• ISBN 13: 9780865475311
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Last Night's Fun's is a sparking celebration of music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Carson's inspired jumble of recording history, poetry, tall tales, and polemic captures the sound and vigor of a ruthlessly unsentimental music. Last Night's Fun is remarkable for its liveliness, honesty, scholarship, and spontaneous joy; certainly there has never been a book about Irish music like this one, and few books ever written anywhere about the experience of music can compare with it.

About the Author

Ciaran Carson was born in 1948 in Belfast. He was Professor of Poetry and Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen's University Belfast. He published numerous collections of poetry that have been shortlisted for both the Irish Book Award for Literature and the Whitbread Poetry Award, and won the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry. He is the author The Star Factory, a memoir of Belfast, Fishing for Amber, and Shamrock Tea, which was long-listed for the Man Booker prize. Carson's new translation of Dante's Inferno was published to great acclaim. He passed away in Belfast in October 2019.