Here's Ireland - Hardcover

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Bryan MacMahon is a Kerryman, who is well-known as a novelist and playwright, as a television personality and as a lecturer in the United States. Here's Ireland'is a personal account of his travels through a land he knows better than the back of his hand. The whole country, from Donegal to Cork, from Connemara to Dublin, is covered in his wanderings. The stories attached to the places he visited and the people he met ensure thatthe reader whether an intending visitor or not will share Bryan MacMahon's own feeling for an island and a people unlike any other in the world. The photographs similarly convey something of the beauty and idiosyncracy of a country which Mr MacMahon's text so admirably treats as a living and developing entity rather than as a collection of historical monuments. The author's wit, observation and appraising comment indicate his passionate involvement in this country of contrasts, where the gay and the tragic, the past and the present, the wise and the foolish, the imaginative and the dull all mingle together to form a national character which can still present a unique and fresh image to the world. Personal as the book is, however, it will be valued also for the solid information, delightfully conveyed, which turns it into a work of utility, particularly to anyone planning a first visit to Ireland.

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