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“hubert butler”

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  • The Children Of Drancy

    by Hubert Butler ...
    With Escape from the Anthill, his first volume of essays, Hubert Butler became universally acclaimed as one of Ireland's most enduring and distinctive writers. In this long-awaited sequel he writes with emphasis on Europe and travel in Russia, China, the Adriatic and America during the mid-century. ... Read more

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  • Grandmother And Wolf Tone

    by Hubert Butler ...
    A third volume of essays – autobiographical, polemical, political, exploratory – by the most distinctive Irish writer of the age, in the highest tradition of Swift and Shaw. Hubert Butler's remarkable consistency of vision and clarity of mind make him unique among Irish essayists in reconciling diversity of content with unity of impression. The focus of his writing is local, its force and ... Read more

    $12.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wolfe Tone

    And The Common Name of Irishman

    by Hubert Butler ...
    An important study of the dynamics behind Tone's ideal, which disentangles the roots of racialism and nationalism in Ireland, and questions the causes of division between North and South. Hubert Butler contends – with precision and passion – that the way forward lies through an understanding of the past and a return to the world of small-scale and personal dimensions. ... Read more

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  • The Children Of Drancy

    by Hubert Butler ...
    With Escape from the Anthill, his first volume of essays, Hubert Butler became universally acclaimed as one of Ireland's most enduring and distinctive writers. In this long-awaited sequel he writes with emphasis on Europe and travel in Russia, China, the Adriatic and America during the mid-century. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grandmother And Wolf Tone

    by Hubert Butler ...
    A third volume of essays – autobiographical, polemical, political, exploratory – by the most distinctive Irish writer of the age, in the highest tradition of Swift and Shaw. Hubert Butler's remarkable consistency of vision and clarity of mind make him unique among Irish essayists in reconciling diversity of content with unity of impression. The focus of his writing is local, its force and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ten Thousand Saints

    A Study in Irish and European Origins

    by Hubert Butler ...
    When it was first published in 1972, Hubert Butler's pioneering masterwork was received with scepticism by his contemporaries. He used linguistics to trace the origins of myths and saints back to pre-Celtic Ireland and Europe, and showed how these stories and names – ancestors of half-forgotten tribes – became absorbed by Christian mythology. The early Irish wove their stories, as did the Greeks, ... Read more

    $12.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Appleman and The Poet

    by Hubert Butler, Robert Tóibín ...
    The Appleman and the Poet, the fifth volume of Hubert Butler's essays, completes a thirty-year odyssey embarked upon by The Lilliput Press in 1984. Our flagship author has finally come home, welcomed by Fintan O'Toole in his foreword: 'One of the great joys of these essays is the discovery of sentences as sharp and lithe as a Toledo rapier.' Beginning with 'Russian Dispatches 1932–1946,' Butler ... Read more

    $16.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In The Land Of Nod

    by Hubert Butler ...
    In The Land of Nod is the fourth and final volume of Hubert Butler's essays and crowns a remarkable literary odyssey. As Neal Ascherson writes: 'When the first collection appeared in 1985 he was already an old man/ His fame began to spread across his native Ireland and then across the world. By the time of his death in 1991 readers throughout Europe and America were asking in amazement why he had ... Read more

    $12.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Escape From The Anthill

    by Hubert Butler ...
    'Opening Hubert Butler's book of essays is like discovering gold. He has all the essayists's gifts: a clear, strong prose, a fascination with everyday affairs and their significance sub specie aeternitatis, a readiness to generalize, the ability to digress without wondering from the point, to inform without pedantry and enlighten without condescension, to give us pleasure simply by sharing his ... Read more

    $11.36 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In The Land Of Nod

    by Hubert Butler ...
    In The Land of Nod is the fourth and final volume of Hubert Butler's essays and crowns a remarkable literary odyssey. As Neal Ascherson writes: 'When the first collection appeared in 1985 he was already an old man/ His fame began to spread across his native Ireland and then across the world. By the time of his death in 1991 readers throughout Europe and America were asking in amazement why he had ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Escape from the Anthill

    by Hubert Butler ...
    In this 40th anniversary edition, discover the epoch-defining collection of essays from one of Ireland's great essayists, Hubert Butler.Escape from the Anthill is known for its erudition, elegant prose, and the depth with which Hubert Butler engages with complex issues, offering sharp insights on resisting totalitarianism and defending personal freedom. Drawing on his experiences in Europe before ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Appleman and The Poet

    by Hubert Butler, Robert Tóibín ...
    The Appleman and the Poet, the fifth volume of Hubert Butler's essays, completes a thirty-year odyssey embarked upon by The Lilliput Press in 1984. Our flagship author has finally come home, welcomed by Fintan O'Toole in his foreword: 'One of the great joys of these essays is the discovery of sentences as sharp and lithe as a Toledo rapier.' Beginning with 'Russian Dispatches 1932–1946,' Butler ... Read more

    $13.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus