The Linen Houses of the Bann Valley
The Linen Houses of the Bann Valley

Author: Kathleen Rankin

Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781903688700

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"This book provides an illustrated commentary on the major linen families and the magnificent houses they lived in along the Bann Valley in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries."--BOOK JACKET.

The Rose & the Briar
The Rose & the Briar

Author: Sean Wilentz

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9780393059540

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Praised by Robbie Robertson of The Band as "a classic & a ticket to ride," The Rose & the Briar assembles an astonishing group of writers and artists: Paul Muldoon, Stanley Crouch, R. Crumb, Jon Langford of the Mekons, Sharyn McCrumb, Luc Sante, Joyce Carol Oates, Dave Marsh, and more than a dozen other novelists, essayists, performers, and critics; to explore the ineffable power of the American ballad. From "Barbara Allen" through "The Wreck of the Old 97" to contemporary ballads by Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, The Rose & the Briar is, as Geoffrey O'Brien hailed in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, "a book full of internal echoes and provocative coincidences," featuring "historical investigation, shamanistic trance-journey, memoir, novella and cartoon," where "names and costumes change, soldiers become cowboys, demon lovers become backwoods murderer; the voices are unmistakably distinct but they share a common ground."

Rivers of Ireland
Rivers of Ireland

Author: Peter O'Reilly

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2003-04

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9780811700726

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The only comprehensive guide to Irish waters, Rivers of Ireland gives full descriptions of each of Ireland's rivers. This new edition includes insider details for fishing guides, local tackle shops, resident fly tiers, and casting instructors.