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White soft cover journal with the following articles: Knockaulin Excavation; Walter Wellesley, Bishop of Kildare 147?-1539; The Tomb of Bishop Wellesley; A 17th Century Prior of Kilcock; Print Rooms; Bog Reclamatin and Peat Development in Co. Kildare; John Trail, Grand Canal Engineer; Ten Thousand Saints; Find of Mortised Beam; FitzGerrald of Lackaghe. ... Read more

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Here is a sparkling critical feast, as heady as good conversation, as provocative and stimulating as the men it deals with - the three greatest Irishmen of this century and three of the most significant literary figures of our time, George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats and James Joyce. ... Read more

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They forged in the smithy of their hearts the uncreated conscience of their race
This is an essentially sympathetic if not uncritical presentation of three of the most important English- language Irish writers, Shaw, Yeats, and Joyce. The language and thought are complicated, and often difficult to understand. But there is displayed a sure knowledge of the work and life of the three masters. I found especially interesting the analysis of Yeats who is presented as having elaborated a whole world of hermetic and symbolic thought primarily as means to creation of poetry. Shaw and Yeats are seen as essentially shy and withdrawn figures who wear public masks. Joyce is clearly understood as the overarching figure of the three who puts Dublin and Ireland on the world literary map in a way no one had done before. ... Read more