Search Results: Titles starting with Q from The Irish History Bookshop

Killarney Golf and Fishing Club, 1993 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). Inscribed by the author. Wear to the edge of the dust jacket..

Four Courts Press Ltd, 2021 Book. New. Soft cover. A Brand New Book.

Ireland: Geography Publications, 2008 Book. New. Hardcover. Richard Bartlett was a talented cartographer and topographical draughtsman who practised in Ireland at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Although his early life and career are poorly documented, he left what for this period must be reckoned a substantial output comprising between nineteen and twenty-seven items depending on how they are counted. These magnificant maps and drawings might be thought capable of speaking for themselves, especially as nearly all of them have already been reproduced in print. My answer is that Bartlett's contributions to Irish geography and topography are important enough to be celebrated verbally and in a book exclusively their own. The need for such a publication might seem to have been already met by Gerard Hayes McCoy's masterly introduction to Ulster and other Irish maps(Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1964), a volume containing facsimiles of all Bartlett's maps in the National Library of… Read More

Irish Academic Press, 2018 Book. New. Hardcover. A Brand New Book..

Cork University Press, 2020 Book. New. Soft cover. John Ford's The Quiet Man (1952) is the most popular cinematic representation of Ireland, and one of Hollywood's classic romantic comedies. For some viewers and critics the film is a powerful evocation of romantic Ireland and the search for home. This book contains new and original information and photographs about the film The Quiet Man. Des MacHale has found a range of unexpected new information about the film. The book opens with the letters of John Ford's secretary, Meta Sterne, giving authentic information and commentary about what went on behind the scenes on location in Ireland. There were many rumours of a sequel to The Quiet Man but they never came off. However, a belated sequel Only the Lonely starring Maureen O'Hara was produced in 1991 and it is described and analysed. The emergence of the screenplay of The Quiet Man is a long and complicated saga. The book examines the initial rejected screenplay by the Welsh novelist… Read More

Ireland: Cork University Press, 2002 Book. New. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. John Ford's "The Quiet Man" (1952) is the most popular cinematic representation of Ireland, and one of Hollywood's classic romantic comedies. For some viewers and critics the film is a powerful evocation of romantic Ireland and the search for home; for others, it is a showcase for the worst stereotypes of stage-Irishry. Much of Irish cinema since the development of an indigenous film industry in the 1980s has set its face firmly against these mythic images of Ireland, but no film has yet attained the enduring appeal of "The Quiet Man". In this radical reappraisal of Ford's Oscar-winning film, Luke Gibbons traces its development from Maurice Walsh's original story (1933) and argues that its romantic excesses are a symptom of much darker undercurrents in the literary text, and the displacement of trauma that often underlies nostalgia. Moreover, Gibbons ably… Read More

THP Ireland, 2011 Book. New. Soft cover. A Brand New Book..

The Mercier Press Ltd, 1979 Book. New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Patrick Henry Pearse has had more influence on Ireland of the twentieth century than any other person. The very fact that, sixty years and more after his execution by an English firing squad, some men should spend time and energy devising ways to denigrate him speaks for itself. This small volume may serve for some as an introduction to the writings of Pearse and for others as an opportunity to sample the range and depth of his writings..