Emma Devlin (18 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Hardback. Condition: New. I don't recall if I saw my first gunman in my childhood nightmares or on my childhood streets.There were plenty in both and they looked very much like each other.So begins Reggie Chamberlain-King's introduction to The Black Dreams, a thrilling and compelling collection of specially commissioned stories that explore the emotional geography of growing up and living in Northern Ireland.The fourteen stories gathered here criss-cross coast, border and city as they map a 'strange' territory of in-between states and unstable realities in which understanding is unreliable. Obsessions, death and rebirth, violence, sexuality, retribution and apocalypse are all part of the rich fabric of The Black Dreams.Bringing together some of Northern Ireland's finest writers, along with some of the best new talents, The Black Dreams celebrates and extends the rich tradition of the weird, surreal and dream-like in Northern Irish writing. It is also a powerful act of imagining and storytelling - a vibrant, vivid and exhilarating exploration of a world we cannot, or choose not, to see.Contributors: Jo Baker, Jan Carson, Reggie Chamberlain-King, Aislínn Clarke, Emma Devlin, Moyra Donaldson, Michelle Gallen, Carlo Gébler, John Patrick Higgins, Ian McDonald, Gerard McKeown, Bernie McGill, Ian Sansom, Sam Thompson.

Hardback. Condition: New. I don't recall if I saw my first gunman in my childhood nightmares or on my childhood streets.There were plenty in both and they looked very much like each other.So begins Reggie Chamberlain-King's introduction to The Black Dreams, a thrilling and compelling collection of specially commissioned stories that explore the emotional geography of growing up and living in Northern Ireland.The fourteen stories gathered here criss-cross coast, border and city as they map a 'strange' territory of in-between states and unstable realities in which understanding is unreliable. Obsessions, death and rebirth, violence, sexuality, retribution and apocalypse are all part of the rich fabric of The Black Dreams.Bringing together some of Northern Ireland's finest writers, along with some of the best new talents, The Black Dreams celebrates and extends the rich tradition of the weird, surreal and dream-like in Northern Irish writing. It is also a powerful act of imagining and storytelling - a vibrant, vivid and exhilarating exploration of a world we cannot, or choose not, to see.Contributors: Jo Baker, Jan Carson, Reggie Chamberlain-King, Aislínn Clarke, Emma Devlin, Moyra Donaldson, Michelle Gallen, Carlo Gébler, John Patrick Higgins, Ian McDonald, Gerard McKeown, Bernie McGill, Ian Sansom, Sam Thompson.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 200 pages. 9.50x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good lightly used condition in dust wrapper.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 200 pages. 9.50x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 200 pages. 9.50x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xxii, 270 pages : map ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780807083208, 9780807083253, 0807083208, 0807083259 ; OCLC 19886086 ; beige-yellow cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: In the middle of the fields / Mary Lavin -- Housekeeper's cut / Clare Boylan -- Midwife to the fairies / Eilis Ni Dhuibhne -- Granny / Bernadette Matthews -- The bride of Christ / Eithne Strong -- The wall-reader / Fiona Barr -- The day of the christening / Harriet O'Carroll -- Melancholy baby / Julia O'Faolain -- Pure invention / Anne Le Marquand Hartigan -- The intruders / Rita Kelly -- Naming the names / Anne Devlin -- Amnesty / Maeve Kelly -- A family picnic / Ita Daly -- Made in heaven / Maura Treacy -- Sister Imelda / Edna O'Brien -- One word / Juanita Casey -- Park-going days / Evelyn Conlon -- Trio / Jennifer Johnston -- All fall down / Helen Lucy Burke -- A day in the dark / Elizabeth Bowen -- The foundress / Emma Cooke -- Shepherd's bush / Maeve Binchy -- Failing years / Mary Beckett -- A curse / Brenda Murphy -- Village without men / Margaret Barrington -- Checkpoint / Ann McKay -- The dove of peace / Leland Bardwell ; A collection of twenty-seven short stories by Irish women writers. The first collection of contemporary short stories by Irish women writers to appear in the United States. ; Louise A. DeSalvo (1942-2018) was an American writer, editor, professor, and lecturer who lived in New Jersey. ; Kathleen Walsh D'Arcy's Irish roots stem from County Offaly and Tipperary. Her parents emigrated from Ireland in the 1920s and she was born and raised in Manhattan, in Holy Name Parish. Her mother, Kathleen Kearney Walsh, was a founding member and president of the Offaly Association, the first woman director of the United Irish Counties Association, the founder of the Irish Hospital Cheer Committee, and the president and founder of the East Hampton Irish American Club.Her father, Patrick F. Walsh, was a famous bandleader in New York, a member of the Musicians' Union, the Hotel Workers' Union, and the Tipperary Association.As a child, Kathleen was immersed in Irish culture. She was a step dancer with the McNiff School and a competitor in the U.I.C Feis, dancing and singing. She marched and step-danced up the avenue in the St. Patrick's Day Parade. She spent time in Ireland as a child and teenager, later living in Dublin in the early 70s, working for Sinn Fein. Kathleen has worked as a writer, editor, teacher and social worker. She compiled and co-edited "Territories of the Voice/Short Fiction by Irish Women Writers" (Beacon Press). As a social worker, she has worked with homebound elders, teen mothers, and domestic violence survivors. ; Katherine Hogan teaches English and Latin at Pearl River High School in New York. Her doctoral dissertation was a study of the political works of Seamus Heaney. ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Hardback. Condition: New. I don't recall if I saw my first gunman in my childhood nightmares or on my childhood streets.There were plenty in both and they looked very much like each other.So begins Reggie Chamberlain-King's introduction to The Black Dreams, a thrilling and compelling collection of specially commissioned stories that explore the emotional geography of growing up and living in Northern Ireland.The fourteen stories gathered here criss-cross coast, border and city as they map a 'strange' territory of in-between states and unstable realities in which understanding is unreliable. Obsessions, death and rebirth, violence, sexuality, retribution and apocalypse are all part of the rich fabric of The Black Dreams.Bringing together some of Northern Ireland's finest writers, along with some of the best new talents, The Black Dreams celebrates and extends the rich tradition of the weird, surreal and dream-like in Northern Irish writing. It is also a powerful act of imagining and storytelling - a vibrant, vivid and exhilarating exploration of a world we cannot, or choose not, to see.Contributors: Jo Baker, Jan Carson, Reggie Chamberlain-King, Aislínn Clarke, Emma Devlin, Moyra Donaldson, Michelle Gallen, Carlo Gébler, John Patrick Higgins, Ian McDonald, Gerard McKeown, Bernie McGill, Ian Sansom, Sam Thompson.

Original souvenir theatre programme 10'' x 6¼'' in cream paper covers. Contains 4 printed pages of text. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE PROGRAMMES.

Hardback. Condition: New. I don't recall if I saw my first gunman in my childhood nightmares or on my childhood streets.There were plenty in both and they looked very much like each other.So begins Reggie Chamberlain-King's introduction to The Black Dreams, a thrilling and compelling collection of specially commissioned stories that explore the emotional geography of growing up and living in Northern Ireland.The fourteen stories gathered here criss-cross coast, border and city as they map a 'strange' territory of in-between states and unstable realities in which understanding is unreliable. Obsessions, death and rebirth, violence, sexuality, retribution and apocalypse are all part of the rich fabric of The Black Dreams.Bringing together some of Northern Ireland's finest writers, along with some of the best new talents, The Black Dreams celebrates and extends the rich tradition of the weird, surreal and dream-like in Northern Irish writing. It is also a powerful act of imagining and storytelling - a vibrant, vivid and exhilarating exploration of a world we cannot, or choose not, to see.Contributors: Jo Baker, Jan Carson, Reggie Chamberlain-King, Aislínn Clarke, Emma Devlin, Moyra Donaldson, Michelle Gallen, Carlo Gébler, John Patrick Higgins, Ian McDonald, Gerard McKeown, Bernie McGill, Ian Sansom, Sam Thompson.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 272 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.62 inches. This item is printed on demand.