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Lines of vision : Irish writers on art / edited by Janet McLean.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London : Thames & Hudson, 2014.
Description
232 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Irish literature
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National Gallery of Ireland
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Editor
McLean, Janet, 1972-
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Essays
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essays
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Summary note
For this anthology, published to mark the 150th anniversary of the National Gallery of Ireland, fifty-six Irish writers have contributed short stories, essays, and poems inspired by pictures in the collection. Authors include acclaimed figures in contemporary Irish literature, such as Colm Tóibín, John Banville, John Boyne, Roddy Doyle, Colum McCann, Paula Meehan, Paul Muldoon, John Montague, and Seamus Heaney.--Publisher's description.
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Includes index.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
I can remember those days / Chris Agee
Caravaggio's The Taking of Christ / John Banville
Determination / Alex Barclay
On the devil's disc / Kevin Barry
St Jerome by Bartolomeo Passarotti / Sebastian Barry
Jack B. Yeats's Grief (1951) / Dermot Bolger
Gallery / Eva Bourke
The Poachers / John Boyne
The singing horseman / Moya Cannon
What happens at night / Evelyn Conlon
Cordélie / Philip Davison
Paul Henry, Moonlight / Gerald Dawe
Night prayer / John F. Deane
William Mulready's The Sonnet / Gerard Donovan
Ernest Meissonier, Cavalry in the Snow: Moreau and Dessoles Before Hohenlinden / Theo Dorgan
A morning in the city / Roddy Doyle
A painting and a poem / Bernard Farrell
The NGI guide / Carlo Gébler
Jack B. Yeats's The Liffey Swim (1923) / Alan Glynn
Crucifixion / Vona Groarke
Vacances / Kerry Hardie
The return from the market / Noëlle Harrison
Banks of a canal / Seamus Heaney
The goose girl / Christine Dwyer Hickey
The Return of the Goats by John Lavery / Declan Hughes
Le Déjeuner / Jennifer Johnston
James Arthur O'Connor, Ballinrobe House / Thomas Kilroy
Paintings / Michael Longley
Before the start / Martin Malone
Launching the currach / Aoife Mannix
Propellers / Colum McCann
James Barry, Self-Portrait as Timanthes / Thomas McCarthy
The director of sunlight / Medbh McGuckian
A white horse / Frank McGuinness
Magdalene, Alice Maher / Eoin McNamee
Artist's studio, Abbey Road / Paula Meehan
El Greco's St Francis Receiving the Stigmata / John Montague
Charles Emile Jacque: Poultry Among Trees / Paul Muldoon
Men of destiny / Nuala Ní Chonchúir
A musicians' gallery / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Castles in the air / Elís Ní Dhuibhne
After Gulliver / Julie O'Callaghan
Memo to a painter / Dennis O'Driscoll
The lamentation over the dead Christ / Michael O'Siadhail
The kitchen maid / Leanne O'Sullivan
Argenteuil / Justin Quinn
Child's play / Billy Roche
Onuphrius / Gabriel Rosenstock
Grace / Donal Ryan
The anniversary / Patricia Scanlan
Brueghel: The Wedding in the Barn / Peter Sirr
John B. Yeats / Colm Tóibín
I stepped into allegory / William Wall
Members of the Sheridan family / Macdara Woods
The piper in the snow / Vincent Woods
Lost angels / Enda Wyley.
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ISBN
9780500517567 ((hbk.))
0500517568 ((hbk.))
LCCN
2014932770
OCLC
883869250
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