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    Tag: Ireland

    This restless craving for sun and love and motion

    Hi, folks! This is post 2 of Deal me In. For more about this project & my previous posts on it, go here: Reading Plans | Weeks 1 | 2 (you…… Read more “This restless craving for sun and love and motion”

    20 de January de 202121 de January de 2021 by juliana

    George Egerton

    George Egerton (pen name of Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright; 14 December 1859 – 12 August 1945) was an Australian-born Irish writer. She was born in Melbourne, Australia,…… Read more “George Egerton”

    19 de January de 202120 de January de 2021 by juliana

    No human being ever believed she was the right person in the right place

    Dear Charlotte, A Struggle for Fame (1883) explores the way social judgements based on nationality, class, and gender give shape to one’s identity and one’s opportunities in…… Read more “No human being ever believed she was the right person in the right place”

    14 de April de 202010 de December de 2020 by juliana

    Charlotte Riddell

    Charlotte Riddell (born Charlotte Eliza Lawson Cowan; also known as Mrs J. H. Riddell; 30 September 1832 – 24 September 1906) was an Irish writer. Born in…… Read more “Charlotte Riddell”

    8 de April de 202014 de April de 2020 by juliana

    Hers was a nature with a wide range

    Dear Sarah, In The Beth Book (1897), we feel that we are reading two very different, at times irreconcilable, books: a powerful coming of age novel and a…… Read more “Hers was a nature with a wide range”

    5 de April de 201910 de April de 2019 by juliana

    Sarah Grand

    Sarah Grand (nom de plume of Frances Elisabeth McFall, née Bellenden Clarke, 10 June 1854 – 12 May 1943) was an Anglo-Irish writer. She was born in…… Read more “Sarah Grand”

    3 de April de 201914 de September de 2020 by juliana

    You cannot live in armour all your life

    Dear Maria, In Belinda (first published in 1801, revised in 1810), we can almost feel the double-edged sword you are playing with: while championing the idea that…… Read more “You cannot live in armour all your life”

    14 de March de 201914 de March de 2019 by juliana

    Maria Edgeworth

    Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849) was an Anglo-Irish author. Born in Oxfordshire, Maria moved to Ireland with her father, when she was five…… Read more “Maria Edgeworth”

    13 de March de 201914 de March de 2019 by juliana

    Reading Ireland Month | 2019

    Hello, lovely readers, As in the previous years, for our delight, Cathy and Niall are hosting Reading Ireland Month, in March, to celebrate  all things Irish! Here are some of my possible…… Read more “Reading Ireland Month | 2019”

    17 de February de 2019 by juliana

    Perhaps freedom has no meaning

    Dear Iris, The Unicorn (1963) is a tale of imprisonment in a shared fantasy, where the cages, rotating on a blank axle, are full of longing. When…… Read more “Perhaps freedom has no meaning”

    10 de December de 2018 by juliana

    That indefinitely extended requirement that one human being makes upon another

    Dear Iris, “I think it’s terrible to be in danger of writing a philosophical novel”, you said in an interview. And I know you have systematically refused to be called…… Read more “That indefinitely extended requirement that one human being makes upon another”

    4 de May de 201811 de December de 2018 by juliana

    Iris Murdoch

    Iris Murdoch (Jean Iris Murdoch, 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an  Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher. Murdoch studied classics at Somerville College, Oxford. She was awarded a first-class…… Read more “Iris Murdoch”

    4 de May de 201810 de December de 2018 by juliana

    Home is a place in the mind

    Dear Maeve, If your novella The Visitor (2000, originally written in the 1940’s) had a face, it would be one of a trapped animal, diverted from its…… Read more “Home is a place in the mind”

    6 de April de 2017 by juliana

    Maeve Brennan

    Maeve Brennan (January 6, 1917 – November 1, 1993) was an Irish writer and journalist. Born in Dublin, she moved to the United States, in 1934, when her father…… Read more “Maeve Brennan”

    6 de April de 20176 de April de 2017 by juliana

    From now on I shall only wear white,

    Dear Nuala, Sometimes I feel that your novel Miss Emily (2015) is haunted by the ghost of something – a bird? – it distractedly let slip out of…… Read more “From now on I shall only wear white,”

    10 de March de 201711 de March de 2017 by juliana

    Nuala O’Connor

    Nuala O’Connor (Nuala Ní Chonchúir, born 14 January 1970) is an Irish writer and poet. She has a Bachelor in Irish from Trinity College Dublin and a Masters in…… Read more “Nuala O’Connor”

    10 de March de 201710 de March de 2017 by juliana

    I do know how to behave – believe me, because I know. I have always known.

    Dear Molly, If I had to describe your novel Good Behaviour (1981) in one word I would say: merciless. As merciless as the code of conduct in…… Read more “I do know how to behave – believe me, because I know. I have always known.”

    16 de February de 201717 de February de 2017 by juliana

    Molly Keane

    Molly Keane (born Mary Nesta Skrine, 20 July 1904 – 22 April 1996) was an Irish writer. She went to a boarding school in Bray, County Wicklow, married…… Read more “Molly Keane”

    16 de February de 201716 de February de 2017 by juliana

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