St Patrick catching sight of Ireland for the first time as he is taken there as a prisoner...Joyce and Yeats eating sticky buns in a Dublin cafe...There has never before been an Irish history book remotely like this one, composed as a vast mosaic of incidents, encounters and vignettes. It is not so much a 'history of Irish civilization' as an 'Irish history of civilization'. In telling a wide range of stories about the Irish everywhere this historical-fictional account of the Irish peoples around the globe from the time of ...
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St Patrick catching sight of Ireland for the first time as he is taken there as a prisoner...Joyce and Yeats eating sticky buns in a Dublin cafe...There has never before been an Irish history book remotely like this one, composed as a vast mosaic of incidents, encounters and vignettes. It is not so much a 'history of Irish civilization' as an 'Irish history of civilization'. In telling a wide range of stories about the Irish everywhere this historical-fictional account of the Irish peoples around the globe from the time of Christ to 1969 opens up the really big issues - the relationship between the minute particulars and the larger patterns which gradually become apparent. The stories themselves are by turns funny, acerbic, ironic, score-settling - never quite what they seem at face value. They are also deeply informed by the author's vast knowledge of Ireland, its history and its diaspora. For once the hyperbole is true - after this book, Irish history will never be the same again.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. "Don Akenson, the world's leading scholar of the Irish diaspora, fuses history and fiction into a remarkable narrative of a people and their influence around the globe." Volume One only. Hardcover, 828 pp., unclipped jacket. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Excellent condition.
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Fine in Near Fine/Fine jacket. Two Volumes Thick 8vo., 828pp; 696pp. Beautiful First Edition. Bound in black paper-covered boards with titles in gilt on spines. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save very gentle bumping to the heels. Sharp unclipped, though unpriced, dust-jackets, (£30 on the rear panel of each volume), are fresh and bright with no chipping or tears. Volume I has a shallow crease on the spine and volume II has a dog-ear on the top front top flap. From the library of Tom Fox, (with his unobtrusive blind-stamp on the title page of each volume), the noted New Jersey Irish-Ameican author, collector and professor of Irish history and literature, Fox was called by Nicholas Basbanes, ", a kindred spirit...assembler of an uncommonly distinctive collection of Irish history and literature". A very pretty collectable set. Please note: International and Priority orders may require additional postage.
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