Lines of vision : Irish writers on art / edited by Janet McLean.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Thames & Hudson, 2014.
Description
232 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

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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.
      Notes
      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.
      ISBN
      • 9780500517567 ((hbk.))
      • 0500517568 ((hbk.))
      LCCN
      2014932770
      OCLC
      883869250
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