Best Of John B Keane

Author : John B. Keane
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1781170177
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sive written by John B. Keane and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sive is a young and beautiful orphan who lives with her uncle Mike, his wife Mena and his mother Nanna. A local matchmaker, Thomasheen Seán Rua, wants Sive to marry an old man called Sean Dóta. Thomasheen convinces Mike and Mena to organise the marriage. They will receive a sum of two hundred pounds as soon as she marries him. However, Sive is in love with a young man, Liam Scuab. But Liam is not suitable and is refused permission to marry Sive. Sive is distraught but is forced to do the will of her uncle and his bitter wife. Faced with an unthinkable future she takes the only choice left to her. Set against the harsh poverty and difficult times of 1950s Ireland, Sive caused considerable controversy on its debut in February 1959. Since then it has become an established part of Ireland's theatrical canon.

Author : John B. Keane
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 162873180X
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Irish Christmas Feast written by John B. Keane and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bountiful collection of more than fifty tales by one of Ireland’s liveliest and most popular writers offers holiday charm and Gaelic humor by the Christmas stockingful. Drawing on the rich folk culture of County Kerry, John B. Keane brings new life to old customs in his portrayals of not-so-ordinary country people during the Christmas season. Keane revisits the Christmases celebrated by characters like Dotie Tupper and Johnny Naile, the doughty Canon Doyle and deaf Canon Cornelius Coodle, the amiable spendthrift Aenias Mackson, and Hiccups O’Reilly, who disappears one Christmas Eve for seven years. Keane bears delightful witness to the trials and triumphs of the inhabitants of County Kerry, Ireland.

Author : John B. Keane
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1781170215
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Of John B Keane written by John B. Keane and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume are hundreds of short pieces which represent the distillation of the experience of a funny, witty, wise and passionate observer of the bright tapestry of Irish life. All human life is here, and Keane tells its story in an astonishing procession of remarkable characters and in rare humorous glimpses of his own career. This is a collection to prize.

Author : John B. Keane
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1856359883
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Field written by John B. Keane and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Field is John B. Keane's fierce and tender study of the love a man can have for land and the ruthless lengths he will go to in order to obtain the object of his desire. It is dominated by Bull McCabe, one of the most famous characters in Irish writing today. An Oscar-nominated adaptation of The Field proved highly successful and popular worldwide, and starred Richard Harris, John Hurt, Brenda Fricker and Tom Berenger.

Author : John B Keane
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1781175497
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Durango written by John B Keane and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Durango is an adventure story about the great October cattle drive of Tubberlick. Set in rural Ireland during the Second World War, this novel features the themes of love, sex, money and betrayal. Durango has been produced as a film starring Brenda Fricker, Patrick Bergin and Pat Laffin.

Author : John B. Keane
Publisher : Brandon Books
ISBN 13 : 9780863223006
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bodhrán Makers written by John B. Keane and published by Brandon Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is harsh in close-knit community of Dirrabeg, a community on the Dingle Peninsula facing extinction in the mid-1950's. Many of the young have left for England or America, where there are opportunities and chances for secure lives. Those remaining behind love their land and their independence but fear for the future as the bogs get thin, the yields are poor, and the children have little hope of success. 'We never died a winter yet.' A wickedly funny and insightful novel from the author of Sive, The Field, The Year of the Hiker, and many other classic works. In the Kerry village of Dirrabeg in the 1950s, the annual wren dance is a moment of light within the dark winter, especially for bodhrán player Donal Hallapy, whose skills are in high demand. But this paganism, and the singing, dancing and drinking that take place, are anathema to Canon Tett, who resolves to crush the old customs. Donal Hallapy, devoted father of a large family, is a bodhran player. He is always in great demand whenever the once-a-year wrendances take place, a day long festival on St Stephen's Day, which can be traced back to pagan times. This paganism, the secret nature of the celebrations, the singing, dancing and drinking that takes place, and the fact that the church has no control over them has made them anathema to "the clan of the round collar," in the person of Canon Tett, an ultraconservative and downright sadistic priest determined to bring the free spirits of Dirrabeg to bay by ending the fun of the wrendances. Wickedly funny and full of insight into age-old conflicts and a lifestyle long passed into memory.

Author : John B. Keane
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 0786748990
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Teapots Are Out and Other Eccentric Tales from Ireland written by John B. Keane and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2004-02-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fitting tribute to John B. Keane, for decades Ireland's favorite storyteller, this winning short story collection typifies the late author's folkloric imagination and storytelling arts. These are congenial tales, too, as this literary legend views the foibles and fallibilities of Irish country folk with abundant compassion as well as a shrewd, sometimes sardonic eye. Add to that Keane's glorious sense of fun and roguery that will make readers relish all the more how and why, in "Fred Rimble," Jim Conlon kills the best friend he ever had. Or how Willie Ramley determines that his future wife will be "Guaranteed Pure." Or how, to tragic as well as comic effect, a gasp, garlic, and gossip undo Denny Bruder in "The Hanging." In all, Keane uncovers the folly in the romantic pangs, exalted aspirations, misguided mischief, and everyday shortcomings of the characters in the village of his storyteller's mind-and beyond the folly finds their humanity.

Author : John B. Keane
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781856351560
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Celebrated Letters of John B. Keane written by John B. Keane and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 1996 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humorous words of John B. Keane live on in Celebrated Letters of John B. Keane, More Celebrated Letters, The Best of John B. Keane and The Short Stories of John B. Keane.

Author : John B Keane
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1781170231
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contractors written by John B Keane and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Dan Murray, who emigrated to England in 1952. He finds work as a building labourer and in time he becomes a building contractor.John B. Keane captures the turbulent, bawdy, anarchic life of Irish contractors and labourers as they try to make it big in England. Told in his usual hilarious and bulls-eye accurate style.

Author : John B. Keane
Publisher : Mercier Press
ISBN 13 : 9781856353441
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Short Stories of John B. Keane written by John B. Keane and published by Mercier Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more shades to John B. Keane's humour than there are colours in the rainbow. Compassion, shrewdness and a glorious sense of fun and roguery are evident in this collection, which brings together all John B's short stories. Included are gems such as A Hanging and Guaranteed Pure.