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Authors, Irish 18th century Biography Authors, Irish 19th century Biography Authors, Irish 21st century Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Great Britain Social conditions 19th century O'Brien, Edna Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745 Tóibín, Colm 1955- Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900 Women authors, Irish 20th century BiographyTóibín, Colm
Summary: "Colm Tóibín begins his incisive, revelatory Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know with a walk through the Dublin streets where he went to university--a wide-eyed boy from the country--and where three Irish literary giants also came of age: Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce. Elegant, profound, and riveting, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 820 TOICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 TOIDudgeon, Piers.
Summary: "Maeve Binchy's novels sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, and when she died on July 30th 2012, she did so as Ireland's best-loved writer. With bestselling books such as Light a Penny Candle, Circle of Friends, Tara Road, Evening Class, and A Week in Winter, which was published four months after her death, no one else told stories like Maeve Binchy. Humane, down-to-earth, and funny, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BINCHY, MAEVE DUDFitzsimons, Eleanor
Summary: Hailed as a gay icon and pioneer of individualism, Oscar Wilde's insistence that "there should be no law for anybody," made him a staunch defender of gender equality. Women were central to his life and career: from his relationship with his extraordinary mother, Jane, and the tragedy of his sister Isola's early death, to his accomplished wife, Constance, and a coterie of other free-thinking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Duckworth 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDE, OSCAR FITTóibín, Colm
Summary: "From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824 TOIMendelssohn, Michèle
Summary: Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him. 'Making Oscar Wilde' reveals the untold story of young Oscar's career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, it tracks a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDE, OSCAR MENDamrosch, Leopold
Summary: "Leo Damrosch draws on discoveries made over the past thirty years to tell the story of Swift's life anew. Probing holes in the existing evidence, he takes seriously some daring speculations about Swift's parentage, love life, and various personal relationships and shows how Swift's public version of his life--the one accepted until recently--was deliberately misleading. Swift concealed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SWIFT, JONATHAN DAMEllmann, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDE, OSCAR ELLHolland, Merlin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828.809 HOLO'Brien, Edna.
Summary: The acclaimed author describes her convent school education in Ireland, the scandal that ensued upon the publication of her first novel, and the wild 1960s parties that introduced her to people from all walks of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 OBRSturgis, Matthew
Summary: "The first full biography of Oscar Wilde in more than thirty years"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDE, OSCAR STUBelford, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000