Padraic Fallon (138 results)

Hardback. 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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Paperback. Condition: New. 'There are poets who make sense in their poems,' writes Eavan Boland in her introduction to this book. 'And then there are poets who also make sense of the literature they belong to, and continue to shed light on it whenever their work is read. Padraic Fallon belongs to this second category. His poems continue to illuminate us.' Fallon published little in his lifetime but is now recognised as a major poet. He inherited a tradition of Irish culture redefined by Yeats, and contributed to it poems that combine lyricism with ironic clear-sightedness. Responding to the landscapes and history of Ireland, Fallon looks outwards, too, to European literature and the complexities of the modern world. 'Padraic Fallon comes to us now as much a contemporary as he was when he began,' Seamus Heaney declares.…

Hardback. 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.

Condition: Good. 1983. Paperback. Good clean copy showing some age and shelf wear. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Good. 1983. Paperback. Good clean copy showing some age and shelf wear. . . . .

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 112pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This is a Fine copy of the first edition (1st printing) in a Fine dust jacket. The story of the life of the poet Padraic Fallon (1905-1974) during an idyllic summer in south-east Ireland in the 1950s. Full color frontis.

1st ed. No inscriptions or annotations; binding tight; dust jacket slightly worn at edges Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st. 8vo, 280 pp., Spine of dust jacket faded; gift inscription onfront free endpaper. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket.

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Paperback. Condition: Very good. Paperback. 112pp. Tanned overall, else very good in publisher's wraps.

Condition: New. pp. 387.

Hardback. Condition: New. A Hymn of the Dawn' tells of the life of the poet Padraic Fallon (1905-1974), his wife Don and their six sons during an idyllic summer in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s. At Prospect, a Georgian house with a small farm, the poet writes his poems, newspaper columns, and radio plays, 'a cigarette smouldering in the ashtray at his elbow, pounding the keys of his typewriter as his eyes stare beyond the words'. His sons, when not working on house or farm, exploit the solitude and open spaces: fishing, soldiering, sailing, poaching, and finally embarking on an expedition in an old herring cot to discover the secrets of the inland waterways. The poet has his own adventures. He collects ballads and sea shanties for his radio programme, meeting sailors and fishermen, jaunting along the coast in his old car. He takes to the open harbour in a tiny punt. His sons go with him on a fishing-boat to visit a lighthouse. Other figures emerge in rich colour: the ploughman, the well-digger, the wildfowler, the handyman, the water diviner, the mischievous uncle from Dublin, poachers and fishermen, the aspiring Caruso who sings to a full moon, and the local man who runs naked through their fields. To Prospect come visitors from the outside world - the artist Tony O'Malley, piper and traditional singer Seamus Ennis, the poet Austin Clarke, the art critic and former gunman Ernie O'Malley, and a succession of writers, critics and poets. Brilliantly fusing fact with fiction, 'A Hymn of the Dawn' is an exquisitely realized evocation of childhood, as the author - the poet's youngest son - lovingly recreates the mysteries and magic of the countryside and its people. …

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 387 pp. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 22 cm. Subjects; Fallon, Padraic 1946-2012 ; Fiction. Poets, Irish. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A Hymn of the Dawn tells of the life of the poet Padraic Fallon (1905-1974), his wife Don and their six sons during an idyllic summer in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s. At Prospect, a Georgian house with a small farm, the poet writes his poems, newspaper columns, and radio plays, a cigarette smouldering in the ashtray at his elbow, pounding the keys of his typewriter as his eyes stare beyond the words. His sons, when not working on house or farm, exploit the solitude and open spaces: fishing, soldiering, sailing, poaching, and finally embarking on an expedition in an old herring cot to discover the secrets of the inland waterways. The poet has his own adventures. He collects ballads and sea shanties for his radio programme, meeting sailors and fishermen, jaunting along the coast in his old car. He takes to the open harbour in a tiny punt. His sons go with him on a fishing-boat to visit a lighthouse. Other figures emerge in rich colour: the ploughman, the well-digger, the wildfowler, the handyman, the water diviner, the mischievous uncle from Dublin, poachers and fishermen, the aspiring Caruso who sings to a full moon, and the local man who runs naked through their fields. To Prospect come visitors from the outside world the artist Tony OMalley, piper and traditional singer Seamus Ennis, the poet Austin Clarke, the art critic and former gunman Ernie OMalley, and a succession of writers, critics and poets. Brilliantly fusing fact with fiction, A Hymn of the Dawn is an exquisitely realized evocation of childhood, as the author the poets youngest son lovingly recreates the mysteries and magic of the countryside and its people. A Hymn of the Dawn tells of the life of the poet Padraic Fallon (1905-1974), his wife Don and their six sons during an idyllic summer in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:0856354317. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Fine first edition in clean unchipped dust jacket, SIGNED by the author. Very clean blue cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and bright with illustrated blue endpapers. Signed by the author on half-title page: "Padraic Fallon". No other writing or marks. 387 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A Hymn of the Dawn tells of the life of poet Padraic Fallon (1905-1974), his wife and their six sons during an idyllic summer on a small farm in the southeast of Ireland in the 1950s. Written by his sixth son, Padraic Fallon. Signed by Author(s). …

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Hardback. Condition: New. The ghost of the Greek mathematician Archimedes breaks the silence of the night. He speaks of a cosmic discovery, one that sprang from the ancient symbol of the circle, and relates a mystery of his death. A lone figure of the modern era listens, conjured into a Hellenistic world of philosophy and war while, in the parallel dimension of today's world, he discovers a harsh mystery of his own. The Ancient Greek search for truth and the love of proportion come to life as Archimedes evokes the enigma of pi and the circle, and the events of his life that led to a scientific revelation, before he died at the hands of a Roman soldier in the siege of Syracuse. There he had proved that the philosopher citizen could be heir to the Greek Heroic tradition. The reader enters the Greek world of learning as it continued to flourish after the death of Alexander, when abstract knowledge was prized and the search for truth was uninhibited by religion or persecution. Archimedes enjoyed from childhood a natural communion with Artemis, Goddess of the Moon and protector of his city-state.The book leads us on a pilgrimage to Eleusis, to Thermopylae, and to Alexandria and the Egypt of the Ptolemies, in parallel with a modern dimension, set among the Stone Age sites of Avebury and Silbury Hill. Archimedes and his listener seek their own truths, which fuse in a vision of Creation at Silbury Hill, the goddess emerging as a symbol of Nature, an archetype that continually connects mankind with its origin. "The Circles of Archimedes", using a variety of voices, is remarkable for its coherence and its tension; it demonstrates that the wisdom of the ancients is central to the search for truths about ourselves and our cosmos.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing - First Thus. (x) 500 pp. Gray boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. This anthology contains: She Went by Gently by Paul Vincent Carroll; The Islandman by Desmond Clarke; The Lady on the Grey by John Collier; The Return; and The Awakening by Daniel Corkery; Saint Bakeoven by Eric Cross; The Kith of the Elf Folk by Lord Dunsany; The Burial by St. John Ervine; Something in a Boat by Padraic Fallon; Miss Gillespie and the Micks by Arnold Hill; The Leaping Trout by David Hogan; Araby; and Counterparts by James Joyce; Football by Patrick Kavanagh; The Story of the Widow's Son by Mary Lavin; All the Sweet Buttermilk; and Duet for Organ and Strings by Donagh MacDonagh; Myself and a Rabbit by Michael MacGrian; The Wild Duck's Nest; and Father Christmas by Michael McLaverty; The Cat and the Cornfield; and The Plain People of England by Bryan MacMahon; Julia Cahill's Curse by George Moore; The World Outside by Val Mulkerns; The Devil and O'Flaherty by Padraic O Conaire; The Drunkard; and The Majesty of Law by Frank O'Connor; Teresa; and Persecution Mania by Sean O'Faolain; The Tent; and The Hawk by Liam O'Flaherty; Michael and Mary; and Nan Hogan's House by Seumas O'Kelly; The Martyr's Crown by Brian O'Nolan; Bell Wethers by Jim Phelan; Weep for Our Pride by James Plunkett; The Miraculous Revenge by George Bernard Shaw; The Black Mare by Edward Sheehy; A Rhinoceros Some Ladies and a Horse; and Schoolfellows by James Stephens; Come Back My Love by Maurice Walsh; The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde; Where There Is Nothing There is God; and Red Hanrahan by William Butler Yeats; followed by Notes on the Authors. Size: 8vo. Book.…