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Yeats is Dead - Joseph O'Connor

 
Description: ISBN 0099422344 / Author: Roddy Doyle / Genre: Fiction / A serial novel by 15 of the brightest talents in Irish writing (including Marian ... more
Yeats is Dead - Joseph O'Connor ... Keyes, Pauline McLynn, Gina Moxley and Frank McCourt), telling an elaborate tale of murder, mayhem and literary shenanigans in present-day Dublin. Approximately £1 from every copy sold will go to Amnesty International.

Newest Review: ... part of it. When I look at the prizes they have collected among themselves - the Booker Prize, the Guiness Ingenuity Award, ... more

 ... Irish Journalist of the Year, the Stewart Parker Award, the Irish Short Film Award, the Macaulay Fellowship of the Irish Arts Council, the Butler Literary Award of the Irish-American Cultural Institute, to name just a few - I can’t help feeling that these writers are, if not THE Irish Intelligentzia, at least a considerable part of it. Now what kind of Irish stew might these literati have concocted? There’s no danger of indigestion because of ‘too many cooks spoil the broth’ as they never worke...more

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Crowned Review Yeats is Dead - Joseph O'Connor: Yeats is Dead! Y8s=+! (1423 words)
by - written on 14/07/01 (Very useful, 151 readings)
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When I was in London some time ago, YES, I WAS IN LONDON SOME TIME AGO! (the dooyooers who know me know that this fact is worth mentioning and stressing), browsing in book shops was one item on my programme. The first book I saw in the first bookshop I entered was the one I’m going to write about here. What made me walk to it, grab it and take it to the counter? The name Yeats sprang out from the cover with a photo underneath which to me seemed to show James Joyce. Now, what was wrong? Either I had forgotten what Yeats looked like (but did I ever know?) or the book people had made a mistake (stranger things have happened!) or all Irish writers look the ...  Read the complete review

 

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