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The Pen Friend

By: Ciaran Carson

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More than twenty years after the end of their love affair, Gabriel receives a series of cryptic postcards from his old flame. Inspired to write his own letter, Gabriel dwells in sensuous detail on perfumes, clothes, and conversations as he tries to recapture the spirit of their romance in 1980s Belfast. As Gabriel teases out the significance of the postcards, the layers of meaning in the images and messages, his reveries develop into richly textured meditations on writing, memory, spiritualism, and surveillance. The result is an elaborate and intricate web of fact and fiction, a narrative that marries sharp historical insights with imaginative exuberance, a strange and wonderful novel confirming Ciaran Carson as one of Ireland's most exciting writers.

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0856408158

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Still Life

By: Ciaran Carson

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Still Life

By: Ciaran Carson

In Still Life, Ciaran Carson guides us through centuries of art and around the Belfast Waterworks where he walks with his wife, Deirdre; into the chemo ward; into memory and the allusive quicksilver of his mind, always bidding us to look carefully at the details of a painter's canvas, as well as the sunlight of day. This master translator chooses here to translate the painter's brush with the poet's pen, finding resemblances, echoes, and parallels. A thorn becomes the nib of a writer's pencil and the pointed pipette of a chemo drip entering the poet's vein. Yet, Deirdre stands as much in the center of these poems as do the paintings. At times, the two seem to escape into the paintings themselves: "Standing by the high farmstead in the upper left of the picture--there!--in a patch of / sunlight. ... They could be us, out for a walk." Balancing the desire to escape into the stillness and permanence of art with the insistent yearning to be fully present in each moment, Carson reminds us--"Look! ... There!"--that in the midst of illness, even in the face of death, there is, still, life.

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Wake Forest University Press

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1930630913

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9781930630918

The Inferno

By: Ciaran Carson

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The Inferno

By: Ciaran Carson

Quite simply the best version of Dante there is' PAUL MULDOON, Irish Times. Almost eight centuries after its first publication, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy remains an icon of Italian literature and of the epic genre. In Inferno, the first volume, the poet Virgil leads Dante's hero through hell, showing him the inhabitants of each of its nine circles and examples of the divine justice meted out to them. In this beautifully produced Apollo Library edition, Ciaran Carson's translation suffuses the text with wit, anger and irreverent vigour, without diminishing the pathos of the original. This is a retelling of Dante's epic journey for the twenty-first-century reader.

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193

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1838933247

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9781838933241

The Star Factory

By: Ciaran Carson

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The Star Factory

By: Ciaran Carson

One of Ireland's most celebrated writers, musicians, and poets, Ciaran Carson was born in Belfast and has spent his life there. In The Star Factory, he makes himself the cartographer of his home city's spaces, symbolic and literal, the scribe of its byways and avenues, from Abbey Road to Zetland Street. Belfast has seen transformation: once the fifth-greatest industrial city in the world, the home of the S. S. Titanic, it has more recently been a battleground of sectarian slaughter. To conjure up the lives lived there, Carson plunges down the "wormhole of memory" - admiring along the way the strata and roots beneath the surface. Though it has experienced more than its share of urban decay - the Star Factory of the title is an abandoned mill - Carson's Belfast teems with stories, stories that can spring from a telephone directory, a cigarette case, a postcard, a book about tramways, a stamp.

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Arcade Publishing

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1559704659

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9781559704656

Last Night's Fun

A Book About Irish Traditional Music

By: Ciaran Carson

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Last Night's Fun

A Book About Irish Traditional Music

By: Ciaran Carson

Last Night's Fun's is a sparking celebration of music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Carson's inspired jumble of recording history, poetry, tall tales, and polemic captures the sound and vigor of a ruthlessly unsentimental music. Last Night's Fun is remarkable for its liveliness, honesty, scholarship, and spontaneous joy; certainly there has never been a book about Irish music like this one, and few books ever written anywhere about the experience of music can compare with it.

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Macmillan

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0865475318

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9780865475311

The Star Factory

By: Ciaran Carson

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Last Night's Fun

A Book About Irish Traditional Music

By: Ciaran Carson

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A Book About Irish Traditional Music

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The Inferno of Dante Alighieri

A New Translation

By: Dante Alighieri,Ciaran Carson

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The Inferno of Dante Alighieri

A New Translation

By: Dante Alighieri,Ciaran Carson

The first ever version of Dante by an Irish poet, Carson's Inferno is accented with a vivid Hiberno-English idiom that will surprise and renew the reader's faith in the art of translation. This is a retelling of Dante's epic journey for the twenty-first-century reader.

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Granta Books

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1862076030

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9781862076037

The Harp and Crown, the History of the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, 1902 - 1922

By: Ciaran Byrne

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The Harp and Crown, the History of the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, 1902 - 1922

By: Ciaran Byrne

The history of the 5th Royal Irish Lancers during the Great War and through to their disbandment and eventual amalgamation with 16th (The Queens) Lancers in 1922. Includes never before published photographs and Includes a list of Officers and other ranks killed in action as well as medal recipients.

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Lulu.com

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1847533396

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9781847533395

Positive Health

100+ Research-based Positive Psychology and Lifestyle Medicine Tools to Enhance Your Wellbeing

By: Jolanta Burke,Pádraic J. Dunne,Trudy Meehan,Ciaran A. O’Boyle,Christian van Nieuwerburgh

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Positive Health

100+ Research-based Positive Psychology and Lifestyle Medicine Tools to Enhance Your Wellbeing

By: Jolanta Burke,Pádraic J. Dunne,Trudy Meehan,Ciaran A. O’Boyle,Christian van Nieuwerburgh

This comprehensive compendium offers a wealth of research-informed tools that can boost both physical and mental wellbeing throughout the lifespan. Filled with more than 100 activities to help you live life better, this book is the first of its kind to integrate the latest research from the fields of positive psychology and lifestyle medicine. Striking a careful balance between theory and practice, the book first reviews what is known about positive psychology and health, presenting a novel approach to holistic wellbeing. It then goes on to provide more than 100 tools designed to increase physical, mental and social health and wellbeing, and also to decrease the risk of illness and disease. The tools described can be used by people of all ages, whether well or experiencing illness. It includes tools that you can use to improve your nutrition and sleep, to increase your physical activity, to develop positive relationships, to develop a positive mindset and to pursue a meaning in life. These tools provide research-informed, practical advice to help you to make lasting changes and become the best possible version of yourself. This book is invaluable for anyone who wishes to maintain and enhance their health and wellbeing using tools that have been shown through research to be effective. It is also a key text for students in positive psychology and healthcare, as well serving as an evidence-based reference book for coaches and health professionals who wish to recommend research-informed tools to their clients and patients.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000645991

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9781000645996

Models of Mental Health

By: Gavin Davidson,Jim Campbell,Ciarán Shannon,Ciaran Mulholland

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Models of Mental Health

By: Gavin Davidson,Jim Campbell,Ciarán Shannon,Ciaran Mulholland

This key text book presents a critical overview of the main theoretical perspectives relevant to mental health practice and argues that no one theory provides a comprehensive framework for practice. By examining traditional models of mental health, as well as new, it challenges some of the accepted views in the field and illustrates the importance of recognising the contribution, strengths and limitations of the range of different ideas. Part of Palgrave's Foundations of Mental Health Practice series, this is indispensable reading for any one studying or working in mental health, whether as a nurse or social worker.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137365919

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9781137365910

A Companion to Victorian Poetry

By: Ciaran Cronin

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A Companion to Victorian Poetry

By: Ciaran Cronin

This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it. Approaches Victorian poetry by way of genre, production and cultural context, rather than through individual poets or poems Demonstrates how a particular poet or poem emerges from a number of overlapping cultural contexts. Explores the relationships between work by different poets Recalls attention to a considerable body of poetry that has fallen into neglect Essays are informed by recent developments in textual and cultural theory Considers Victorian women poets in every chapter

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405123184

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9781405123181

Book's by Ciaran Carson

The Pen Friend

The Pen Friend

Still Life

Still Life

The Inferno

The Inferno

The Star Factory

The Star Factory

Last Night's Fun

Last Night's Fun

The Star Factory

The Star Factory

Last Night's Fun

Last Night's Fun

The Inferno of Dante Alighieri

The Inferno of Dante Alighieri

The Harp and Crown, the History of the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, 1902 - 1922

The Harp and Crown, the History of the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, 1902 - 1922

Positive Health

Positive Health

Models of Mental Health

Models of Mental Health

A Companion to Victorian Poetry

A Companion to Victorian Poetry

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