Index, p. 240.non-fictionHis is "close-up" poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, lived life that Heaney does". (John Banville). "More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of". (John Carey). "Heaney's voice, by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive, is one of a suppleness almost equal to consciousness itselfamerican poetry - history and criticism, english poetry - history and criticism

Ill, p.84. non-fictionAn account of a pilgrimage through eastern and central Europe in1992. travel - europe, religious experience

Index, p.746.fictionAn historical novel which has a focus on four men who took part in the ill-fated Fenian uprising in 1867. It traces the effect on their lives of the battle of Clonbrony Wood.ireland - 19th century politics., ireland - social life and customs

Plates, p. 265non-fictionA witty, humorous and entertaining account of politics and politicians.politicians - australia - biography, australia - politics and government

Maps, p.298.non-fictionO'Sullivan's memoir of growing up on Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited Gaelic-speaking island off the Atlantic coast of Ireland.ireland - blasket islands, ireland - biography - maurice o'sullivan

Index, p.216.non-fictionA biography of an English migrant family who arrived during the nineteenth century. Soon after arrival their 11 year old son and author was orphaned leaving him provider for his family. He eventually rose to be a prominent merchant always supported by faith and hard labour.victoria - social life and customs., baptists - victoria - biography

Plates, p.237.non-fictionBiography by Professor Mulcahy, son of General Richard Mulcahy. He was head of the cardiology department and heart disease research at St. Vincent's Hospital in Dublin. He was also Past President of the Irish Medical Association.risteard mulcahy - autobiography, cardiologists - ireland

Ill, p.89.non-fictionAn autobiographical tapestry, recollections of an Irish childhood linked to an account of a journey there today, interwoven with fragments of Irish mythology, history and hearsay.ireland - authors - biography, ireland - description and travel

Plates, p.138.non-fictionThe life story of Kathleen Behan as told to her son, Brian Behankathleen behan - biography, ireland - social life and customs

Plates, p.190.non-fictionConversations with twelve Irish female politicians of the modern era.ireland - politics - 20th century, women politicians - ireland

Index, p.358.non-fictionAn historical examination of the persistence of conflict in Ireland during the 20th century.ireland - politics and government - 20th century, the troubles

Ill, p.198.non-fictionJ. P. Donleavy's idiosyncratic and personal view of Ireland. He brings to life the range of Ireland's people from the small farmer to the landed aristocrat, from the Anglo-Irish in their crumbling mansions to the 'gombeenmen erecting their empires of vulgarity'.3. ireland - social life and customs., ireland - travel

Index, p.355.non-fictionTerence Brown traces the development of modern Ireland through a juxtaposition of key topics - nationalism, industrialisation, religion, language revival and censorship with an assessment of the major literary and artistic advances achieved during the same era.ireland - social life and customs, ireland - politics and government

Bib. p.238.non-fictionThis book provides a wide ranging account of historical writing on Ireland during the 1970s.ireland - historiography, ireland - history

Index, p.393.non-fictionThe classic biography of Liam Mellows, a key figure in the Irish Republican Movement.ireland - civil war 1921-1922, liam mellows - biography

xiii, 848 penglish language - australia - style, writing - handbooks, english language - australia - usage

x, 275 paustralia - genealogy - handbooks and manuals, australia - family history

357 p., illustrationsnon-fictionWilliam George Monteith and his involvement with the Victorian and Australian Navy. australian navy history, australian naval ships, hmas cerberus, biography, william george monteith, navy, victoria

Ill, p.178.An account of Middle East events in the 1950smiddle east - history, middle east - politics and government

Ill, p.298.non-fictionDe Wet gives his experiences as a secret agent of France in Prague, and of his capture and imprisonment by the Gestapo.world war 1939-1945 - espionage - france, world war 1939-1945 - personal narratives - britain

Index, p.684.Two volumes of short stories by Henry Lawson (1867-1922) . Volume one organised into four sections: 'While the Billy Boils' (first series); 'While the Billy Boils' (second series); 'On the track'; 'Over the sliprails'. Volume two organised into five sections: 'Joe Wilson'; 'Joe Wilson's Mates'; 'The romance of the swag'; 'The rising of the court'; 'Send round the hat'. australia - social life and customs, australia - literary works

Index, p.181.non-fictionA collection of verse by Henry Lawsonaustralia - poetry, australia - literary works

Ill, p.133.fictionThe Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, a comic verse novel, was first published in book form in 1915 and sold more than sixty thousand copies in nine editions within a year. By the mid-1970s nearly three hundred thousand copies had been sold internationally. australia - poetry, australia - literary works

Ill, p.95.fictionPoetical works from World War twoworld war 1939-1945 - poetry, australia - poetry

Bibliography, p.583.fictionThis volume is an enlarged edition of Àustralian ballads and rhymesaustralia - poetry - 19th century, australia - literary works

ll, p.259.non-fictionStory of aerial medical work in Northern Territory Base Hospital at Katherine; Aborigines as patients - reactions towards white mans medicine - leprosy; Aborigines among N.T. population - house workers - guides - stockmen. royal flying doctor service, medical services - northern territory

Ill, p.306.non-fictionThe extraordinary of a classic Australian pioneer - told by Australia's 'Boswell of the Bush', Ion Idriess. Almost single-handedly John Flynn of the Australian Inland Mission brought to the outback the Flying Doctor Service and the Bush Hospitals. His magnificent vision, formed as he travelled on the back of a camel across the vast space of Australia's outback, took a lifetime of courageous commitment to bring to realityroyal flying doctor service, medical services - northern territory

Ill, p.189.non-fictionA tale of the troubles, trials and vicissitudes of the Fairbridge Farm Schoolchild migrants, school farms - western australia

Ill, p.206.non-fictionA memoir of country life in rural New South Walesaustralia - social life and customs, blue mountains

Ill, p.487.non-fictionAn account of a royal visit to Australia in the steam ship HMS Galatearoyal visits - australia, visits of state - australia, hrh duke of edinburgh