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Author: Billy Roche
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780822219149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE STORIES: A HANDFUL OF STARS. Set in a local dilapidated snooker hall, A HANDFUL OF STARS tells the story of Jimmy Brady, a young Wexford tearaway who refuses to abide by the rules and regulations that are applied in this so-called man's world,
Author: John Banville
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-03-07
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0307817121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Banville’s stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer. Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence, not of his innocence, but of his life, of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could. Like a hero out of Nabokov or Camus, Montgomery is a chillingly articulate, self-aware, and amoral being, whose humanity is painfully on display.
Author: J.G. Farrell
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2002-10-31
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9781590170182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Lost Man Booker Prize, this darkly hilarious book about the Irish war for independence takes place in a crumbling hotel on Ireland's west coast, a place where madness and brutality have begun to reign. 1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whether he is indeed betrothed to Angela Spencer, whose Anglo-Irish family owns the once-aptly-named Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough. But his fiancée is strangely altered and her family's fortunes have suffered a spectacular decline. The hotel's hundreds of rooms are disintegrating on a grand scale; its few remaining guests thrive on rumors and games of whist; herds of cats have taken over the Imperial Bar and the upper stories; bamboo shoots threaten the foundations; and piglets frolic in the squash court. Meanwhile, the Major is captivated by the beautiful and bitter Sarah Devlin. As housekeeping disasters force him from room to room, outside the order of the British Empire also totters: there is unrest in the East, and in Ireland itself the mounting violence of "the troubles." Troubles is a hilarious and heartbreaking work by a modern master of the historical novel.
Author: Billy Roche
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781854596710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA heart-warming new play from the author of The Wexford Trilogy and Cavalcaders.
Author: John Banville
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-03-14
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 030781713X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a novel set in sixteenth-century Europe about an obscure cleric who is preparing a theory that will shatter the medieval view of the universe—while being haunted by his malevolent brother and threatened by the conspiracies raging around him and his ideas. Sixteenth-century Europe is teeming with change and controversy: wars are being waged by princes and bishops and the repercussions of Luther are being felt through a convulsing Germany. In a remote corner of Poland a modest canon is practicing medicine and studying the heavens, preparing a theory that will shatter the medieval view of the universe. In this astonishing work of historical imagination, John Banville offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence. For, in a world that is equal parts splendor and barbarism, an obscure cleric who seeks “the secret music of the universe” poses a most devastating threat.
Author: Billy Roche
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848423992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBilly Roche's classic Irish drama, recently revived 25 years after its world premiere.
Author: Billy Roche
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Published: 2014-08-25
Total Pages: 61
ISBN-13: 0822230267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet in rural Ireland in 1962, LAY ME DOWN SOFTLY takes us into the burlesque world of the boxing booth of Delaney's Travelling Roadshow, affectionately known as "The Academy". We dip down the shadowy, ropey avenues to the sound of the churning calliope, where we encounter the play's cast of dangerous characters: Theo, the charismatic, jealous, and violent ringmaster; his Carmen-esque lover, Lily; Peadas, Theo’s old, tired and not-so-trusted sidekick; the vain and boastful prize-fighter Dean; and the limping, Adonis-like Junior. Into this world comes Emer, a wounded waif of a girl who has come in search of her long-lost father. Her presence and the arrival of a professional boxer threaten to upset the already shaky equilibrium.
Author: Billy Roche
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 78
ISBN-13: 0822219131
DOWNLOAD EBOOK...[a] lovely and hauntingly original family drama...a work that breathes so much life into the theater. --Time Out NY. ...[a] delicate visual feast...When theatergoers talk about a play as a religious experience, they usually just mean that it had charismatic
Author: Billy Roche
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781854594631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmphibians: Cast gender - mixed; number - 8 males, 3 females (total 9); size - medium; length - 2 acts. Drama about an Irish fisherman and his son.
Author: Jane Smiley
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2014-10-07
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0385350392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes the first volume of an epic trilogy that takes us on a literary adventure through cycles of birth and death, passion and betrayal that will span a century in America. “Intimate.... Miraculous.... Staggering.... A masterpiece in the making.” —USA Today 1920, Denby, Iowa: Rosanna and Walter Langdon have just welcomed their firstborn son, Frank, into their family farm. He will be the oldest of five. Each chapter in this extraordinary novel covers a single year, encompassing the sweep of history as the Langdons abide by time-honored values and pass them on to their children. With the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change through the early 1950s, we watch as the personal and the historical merge seamlessly: one moment electricity is just beginning to power the farm, and the next a son is volunteering to fight the Nazis. Later still, a girl we’d seen growing up now has a little girl of her own.
