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BOOKS IN ENGLISH... The Irish Eyes Choice

 

BIBLIOTHEQUE GREEN ATTITUDE : les livres verts

 

LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE EN FRANÇAIS...nos choix


THE BOOK we like this month ...

 

The Natural History of Ireland included in Book One of the Zoilomastix of Don Philip O’Sullivan Beare translated from the Latin and edited by Denis C. O’Sullivan ;

published by Cork University Press 2009, hardback, €39.00

 

The reader of this review might well cry : “Inverted nepotism !” This book was written in Latin in Spain by an O’Sullivan from Bantry Bay , translated by another O’Sullivan from Bantry Bay a medical specialist with a degree in Classics from U.C.C. , and presented here by another O’Sullivan with a degree in Latin from U.C.C. , also from Bantry Bay!

After Kinsale , at the age of 12 , Don Philip , from a family of 17 children , was sent to safety in Spain in 1602 where his father died at almost a hundred years old and was buried in Corunna . Don Philip himself appears to have remained unmarried and died there in 1636 at the age of 48 .

This is Book One of the Zoilomastix ,a name coined by the author from “Zoilos”, a man despised by the Greeks as a detractor of Homer , and “mastix” meaning a scourge or a whip and here Don Philip “scourges” Giraldus Cambrensis for providing an inaccurate topography of Ireland . His Ireland , culled from his 12 year-old memories , combined with those of his parents, other exiles and knowledge from classical sources like the books of Pliny the Elder and Aristotle , is truly magical where flora and fauna are described with a rare lyricism and sense of wonder :the lark flies into the sky “like a javelin that has been thrown upwards,soars

aloft and again like a stone falling by the pressure of its own weight, closing its wings, it descends, but with his body weight so balanced that he settles himself on his legs .”The golden oriole “by a wonderful cleverness sleeps suspended by its feet from a twig; it is held that it protects from jaundice those who spot it”.Don Philip gives ornithological, plant and animal names in Latin, Greek, Spanish and Irish . This is an amazing book , beautifully translated , and a very important example of Irish Latin literature in the Renaissance spirit of

“Il Cortegiano”.

Un-put-down-able !

 

Derry O’Sullivan

 

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BOOKS IN ENGLISH ...

 

 

KNOCK

Par W.A. HARBINSON
Aux Editions Custom Books Publishing

 

Mr Harbinson has excelled himself this time with a novel both amusing and endearing at once. With his character 'Postie' we are reminded of both JP Dunleavy and Anthony Burgess. A truly enjoyable read.

- H.J. Staunton, The Irish Eyes Magazine

 

Knock belongs to an Irish tradition that runs from Charles Lever and Samuel Lover, down thtough Joyce, Beckett and Donleavy...
It is a remarkable tour de force and, like all good novels, leaves the feeling that it c ould have been written in no other way.

- Colin Wilson, Afterword

 

Harbinson handles it like a vrituoso... A very Irish figure, this literary postman. He belongs really to the streets of Dublin - or perhaps Mr Harbinson's Belfast - not London.

So do most of the other figures in this sad, moving, often beautifully funny and engagingly stately progress through a man's mind and past.

The Daily Telegraph

 

 

 

BROOKLYN

By COLM TOíBíN
Scribner


The particular atmosphere and characters of Graham Greene’s novels were said to belong in the fictional country of Greeneland. One could say the same about Colm Toibin’s work. Toibinland is a place where colours are muted and voices are rarely raised. The author can transform a nylon sale in Bartocci’s department store in Brooklyn into a Jamesian drawing-room.

[read more by Jean O'Sullivan]


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LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN

by Colum McCann

2009 National Book Award Winner

 

An adopted New Yorker, Colum McCann already showed us, in “This Side of Brightness”, how he could bring his teeming imagination to bear on that equally teeming city and fix it in tense, muscular prose. That novel took place almost entirely underneath the streets of Manhattan and evoked a strange, unsettling world hidden from the view of the bustling crowds above. His new book sets its sights even higher, in every sense.

[read more by Jean O'Sullivan]

 

 

 

DANCER by Colum McCann
Belfond (in French) - Picador (In English)

 

Talking to Colum McCann by Treasa Devine for The Irish Eyes.

 

A beautiful, floating novel about Nureyev's life and art." The New York Times Book Review

Exuberant and exhilarating . . . A brilliant leap of imagination. San Francisco Chronicle

Fascinating . . . A triumph of voice . . . McCann's fluid lyricism brilliantly convey's Nureyev's towering professional achievement and the wasteland of his personal life. Newsday

 

 

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