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Journey into Joy: Selected Prose
By Brendan Kennelly Edited by Ake Persson

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Kennelly's essays on major Irish writers: Yeats, Joyce, O'Casey, MacNeice, Kavanagh, Austin Clarke, Frank O'Connor, Flann O'Brien, Liam O'Flaherty, Derek Mahon, Joseph Plunkett and George Moore.

£10.95 Paperback
1 85224 210 8. 272pp. 1994.
£25.00 cloth
1 85224 209 4. 272pp. 1994.
Subjects: Irish Poets , Literary Criticism

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Other books by Brendan Kennelly:
A Time for Voices
Antigone
Begin
Blood Wedding
Breathing Spaces
Cromwell
Dark Fathers into Light
Dublines
Familiar Strangers
Glimpses
Martial Art
Medea
Now
Poetry My Arse
Reservoir Voices
The Book of Judas
The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me
The Little Book of Judas
The Man Made of Rain
The Poetry Quartets 4
The Trojan Women
When Then is Now