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A year has passed since the closing of Finbar's Hotel, a
down-on-its-heels hotel on the Dublin quays. Now, with a rock star
as its new owner, it has once more opened its doors-and Finbar's
has become an ultra-chic gathering spot. Ladies' Night at Finbar's
Hotel describes one night in its newly illustrious surroundings-a
night filled with adventure and comic romp. In one room a man
surreptitiously helps his wife's friend get pregnant, while next
door a businesswoman battles her father. And down the hall, a nun
struggles with the most important mission of her life. A fabulous
mix of pathos and high humor, this is a sardonic tour of the gamut
of human experience told by Ireland's finest modern storytellers.
Maeve Binchy has written numerous bestsellers, most recently Tara
Road. Dermot Bolger is the author of six novels and edited The
Vintage Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction. Clare Boylan has
written six novels and several nonfiction works, including The
Literary Companion to Cats. Emma Donoghue is the author of Stirfry
and Kissing the Witch, among other works. Anne Haverty's writing
has been short-listed for the Whitbread Award. ƒilis N' Dhuibhne
has published poetry, short fiction, children's books, and two
novels. Kate O'Riordan writes for stage and screen, and has written
two novels including The Bray House. Deirdre Purcell recently
adapted her novel Falling for a Dancer as a four-part serial for
BBC television.
The first collection of plays from one of Ireland's most
accomplished contemporary writers This volume contains four plays:
The Lament for Arthur Cleary: "Theatrically rich and socially
powerful, it takes on the lineaments of an epic voyage, a voyage
into the dark heart of a city where Irish theatre has seldom been
before" (Irish Times); In High Germany: "Thoughtful, comic, sad and
provocative, this monologue of a lost and altered heritage ...These
two plays [In High Germany and The Holy Ground] are cogent
manifestations of a changing Irish world" (Irish Times); The Holy
Ground: "A tour de force. It's stream of consciousness theatre at
its best ...[which] develops a pace until the listener is hanging
on to every syllable" (Sunday Press); Blinded by the Light:
"Manically madcap and hilariously funny, it canters in a bawdy romp
onto the stage, heralding the arrival of a unique comic writing
talent. Energetic, perfectly timed and brilliantly observed" (Irish
Press)"A writer of frenetic energy and imagination." (Sunday Times)
An ordinary man is forced to confront both his own demons and the
manifestation of the supernatural beyond his comprehension and
control Jeremy Furlong is a successful businessman, whose life has
been carefully constructed from layer upon layer of lies. That is
until now, when he is confronted by the trapped poltergeist spirit
of a dead boy in the squalid flat he using to have an affair. The
Passion of Jerome premiered at the Peacock stage of the Abbey
Theatre in February 1999."A writer of frenetic energy and
imagination." (Sunday Times)
Leopold Bloom's odyssey is a pandemonium of live music, puppets,
dancing, clowning, bowler hats and kazoos. It's Ulysses as you've
never imagined it before, a superbly theatrical homage to Joyce's
chronicle of Dublin life and the greatest novel of all time. With
his wife Molly waiting in bed for the nefarious Blazes Boylan,
Leopold Bloom traverses Dublin, conversing in pubs, graveyards and
brothels, enduring ridicule and prejudice as he steadfastly clings
to his principles and subtly slays his dragons while drawing ever
closer to his fateful encounter with the young Stephen Dedalus.
A stunning historical saga set in the early decades of the
twentieth century which follows the lives and loves of one
extraordinary family. We first meet the Goold Verschoyle children
in 1915. Though there is a war going on in the world outside, they
seem hardly touched by it - midnight swims, flower fairies and
regatta parties form the backdrop to their enchanted childhood. But
as they grow older, changes within Ireland and the wider world
encroach upon the family's private paradise. Turbulent times - the
Irish war of independence, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II
- are woven into the tapestry upon which this magical story is
spun. Events in Spain, Russia and London draw the children in
different directions: one travels to Moscow to witness Communism at
first had; another runs away to England to take part in the General
Strike and then heads off to the Civil War in Spain; another
follows the more conventional route of marriage and family. Based
upon the extraordinary lives of a real-life Anglo-Irish family,
Bolger's novel superbly recreates a family in flux, driven by
idealism, wracked by argument and united by love and the vivid
memories of childhood. 'The Family on Paradise Pier' shows Bolger
at the height of his powers as a master storyteller. A spellbinding
and magnificent achievement.
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