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Ierland, Ierse geschiedenis, Ierse schrijvers, Sport

John Kelly – The GAA Covered

John Kelly The GAA Covered review, recensie en informatie boek over de geschiedenis van de Gaelic sport in Ierland. Op 4 september 2025 verschijnt bij Gill Books het boek van John Kelly over de Gaelic Athletic Association, in het Iers Cumann Luthchleas Gael genoemd.

John Kelly The GAA Covered review en recensie

  • “A valuable compendium that plays fitting tribute to the ultimate GAA collector’s item.” (Michael Foley, Sunday Times)

John Kelly The GAA Covered

The GAA Covered

The History of the GAA in Match Programmes

  • Auteur: John Kelly (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: Ierse geschiedenis, sportgeschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Gill Books
  • Verschijnt: 4 september 2025
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: € 29,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst Gaelic Athletic Association book

The GAA Covered is a stunning visual compendium of GAA programmes. With over 100 years of material contained within, each page features striking images of that year’s provincial and All-Ireland final match programmes, along with superb captions of context and colour.

Whether it’s tightly rolled up between two nervous, wringing hands, proudly sticking out from a quick-stepping back pocket or carefully brought home to be kept for posterity, the match day programme is part of the very fabric of the GAA and in The GAA Covered this glorious document gets its long overdue day in the sun.

The GAA Covered is a stunning visual compendium of over 100 years of GAA programme covers from 1913 to the present day, and an invaluable collection of local, social and sports history. Each page of this comprehensive collection features striking images of that year’s provincial and All-Ireland final match programmes, along with superb captions of context and colour.

John Kelly is born in Ireland. He is a primary school principal. He has had a lifelong involvement in Gaelic games as a player, coach and administrator, and more recently as an intercounty match official. He has also been a contributor to RTÉ’s Sunday Miscellany and Ireland’s Own magazine. He lives in County Carlow with his wife Maria and his two sons, Pádraic and Lorcan.

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Ierland, Ierse geschiedenis, Ierse schrijvers

The Irish Revolution Diplomacy and reactions

The Irish Revolution Diplomacy and reactions review, recensie en informatie boek over de Ierse revolutie. Op 16 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Cork University Press het boek over diplomatie en reacties op de Ierse Revolutie 1919-1923. Het boek is geschreven door verschillende Ierse historici. Een Nederlandse vertaling is niet verkrijgbaar.

The Irish Revolution Diplomacy and reactions review en recensie

  • “A major contribution to our understanding of the revolutionary period, offering fresh insights into many under-explored aspects of the time. A fitting final contribution to the legacy of the late Dermot Keogh.” (David McCullagh, Jounalist and authort of From Crown to Harp)
  • “This impressive and timely collection offers an astute analysis of the long underappreciated international dimension of the turbulent period of 1919 to 1923 in Irish history. With its wide geographical range, focusing on Europe, the United States and the Irish diaspora within the British Empire, the book is essential reading for anyone interested in the global repercussions of Ireland’s “Greater War” experience, international relations in an age of revolutionary nation-building, and modern European history.” (Robert Gerwarthe, Professor of Modern History)

The Irish Revolution Diplomacy and reactions 1919-1923

The Irish Revolution

Diplomacy and Reactions 1919-1923

  • Auteurs: Diverse auteurs (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: Ierse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Cork University Press
  • Verschijnt: 16 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 560 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: € 49,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de Ierse Revolutie

Discover how Irish revolutionaries transformed their independence struggle into a global diplomatic campaign (1919-1923). Through innovative public diplomacy and diaspora mobilisation, they developed strategies for small nations to influence world affairs. This pioneering study locates the struggle within the context of post-war settlements as Irish republicans sought to shape international relations.

It is often forgotten that leaders of the Irish Revolution considered the domestic and international campaigns for Irish independence to be organically linked. Focusing on this dimension can relocate the Irish struggle in its original and fullest context.

This collection of essays follows the activities of Irish envoys abroad over four years as they defended the right of Dáil Éireann to self-determination and lobbied for its recognition in the capitals of Europe and the British Commonwealth, as well as in the United States. The global impact of Terence MacSwiney’s hunger strike protest is highlighted, as well as the important role played by Catholic networks, disapora activists and women volunteers.

By reconsidering its international dimension, this book locates the Irish Revolution within an appropriate background of post-war settlements that were not only contested but also remained comparatively fluid. Cultural repercussions of the Irish struggle are also examined at a time of growing international debate about small, emergent states and the existence of contested state boundaries arising from the upending of the old international order caused by the First World War.

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John Banville – The Sea

John Banville The Sea review, recensie en informatie roman uit 2005 van de Ierse schrijver en winnaar van de Booker Prize. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman van de uit Ierland afkomstige schrijver John Banville. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman met als titel De zee is op dit moment alleen tweede hands verkrijgbaar.

John Banville The Sea review en recensie

  • “You can smell and feel and see his world with extraordinary clarity. It is a work of art, and I’ll bet it will still be read and admired in seventy-five years.” (Rick Gekoski, The Times)
  • “A novel in which all of his remarkable gifts come together to produce a real work of art, disquieting, beautiful, intelligent, and in the end, surprisingly, offering consolation.” (Allan Massie, The Scotsman)
  • “A brilliant, sensuous, discombobulating novel.” (Spectator)

John Banville The Sea

The Sea

  • Auteur: John Banville (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: Ierse roman uit 2005
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Picador
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Nederlandse vertaling: De zee
  • Winnaar Booker Prize 2005
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol 

Flaptekst van de roman uit 2005 van de Ierse schrijver John Banville

The Sea is John Banville’s remarkable, Booker prize-winning exploration of memory, childhood and loss.

When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma.

The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr and Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately. What happened next would haunt him for the rest of his years, and shape everything that was to follow.

John Banville was born on 8 December 1945 in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many highly acclaimed and prize-winning novels including The Sea, which won the 2005 Booker Prize. He has been awarded the Franz Kafka Prize and a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.

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William Trevor – Mrs. Eckdorf in the O’Neill Hotel

William Trevor Mrs. Eckdorf in the O’Neill Hotel review, recensie en informatie Ierse roman uit 1969. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman uit 1969 van de uit Ierland afkomstige schrijver William Trevor. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

William Trevor Mrs. Eckdorf in the O’Neill Hotel review en recensie

  • ” It’s a full house of believable, likable rogues and rabble, with an unexpected joker.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “An astounding richness of pathos, humour and tragedy.” (Francis King)
  • “Without doubt he is one of Britain’s funiets novelists. (The Times)

William Trevor Mrs. Eckdorf in the O'Neill Hotel

Mrs. Eckdorf in the O’Neill Hotel

  • Auteur: William Trevor (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: Ierse roman uit 1969
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 15,99 / £ 5,99
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van de Ierse schrijver William Trevor uit 1969

What was the tragedy that turned O’Neill’s hotel from plush establishment into a dingy house of disrepute? Ivy Eckdorf is determined to find out. A professional photographer, she has come to Dublin convinced that a tragic and beautiful tale lies behind the facade of this crumbling hotel.

The aging proprietor lies dying upstairs while her feckless son is lost in a world of drink and horseracing; and the loyal O’Shea, accompanied everywhere by his greyhound, seeks to keep the hotel on the road. As Mrs Eckdorf worms her way into lives that centre on the hotel, she becomes as much a victim as they are.

William Trevor was born on 24 May 1928 in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland. He has written many novels, and has won many prizes Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel William Trevor novel from 1969 first editionincluding the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. His most recent novel Love and Summer was longlisted for the Booker Prize. He is also a renowned writer of short stories, and his two-volume Collected Stories was published by Viking Penguin in 2009. In 1999 William Trevor received the prestigious David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime’s literary achievement, and in 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature. He died in his sleep on 20 November 2016 in Crediton, Devon, England at the age of 88.

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Beste Ierse romans en boeken uit Ierland

Beste Ierse romans en boeken uit Ierland. Wat zijn de allerbeste romans van Iers schrijvers, schrijfsters en auteurs? Welke romans en boeken uit Ierland worden gezien als de allerbeste?

Beste Ierse romans

Uiteraard kun je uitgebreid discussiëren over wat de beste Ierse romans zijn? Sterker nog iedere lezer zal zijn persoonlijke voorkeur hebben. Dus een top zoveel lijst van de beste romans en andere boeken van uit de Ierland afkomstige auteurs is niet helemaal nuttig.

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Wat zijn de beste Ierse romans en andere boeken?

Onze redactie kiest ervoor om een alfabetisch overzicht te maken van Ierse romans en andere boeken uit Ierland die volgens velen het lezen meer dan waard zijn. Er zullen bovendien nieuwe uitstekende en uitmuntende romans van auteurs uit Ierland worden toegevoegd. Ook is er aandacht voor de Nederlandse vertaling van de roman, mits deze verschenen is, uiteraard.

John Banville The Sea reviewJohn Banville – The Sea

Ierse roman uit 2005
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Winnaar Booker Prize 2005
When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr and Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max…lees verder >

Elizabeth Bowen The Death of the Heart reviewElizabeth Bowen – The Death of the Heart

Ierse roman uit 1938
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
When sixteen-year-old Portia is orphaned, she is plunged into the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy half-brother’s home. There she encounters the attractive cad Eddie. To him, Portia is at once child and woman, and he fears her gushing love. To her, Eddie is the only reason to be alive…lees verder >

Amongst Women John McGahern novel from 1990 first editionJohn McGahern – Amongst Women

Ierse familieroman uit 1990
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Once an officer in the Irish War for Independence, Moran is now a widower, eking out a living on a small farm where he raises his two sons and three daughters. Adrift from the structure and security of the military, he keeps control by binding his family close to him. But as his children grow older and seek independence, and as the passing years bring with them bewildering change, Moran struggles to find a balance between love and tyranny…lees verder >

Edna O'Brien The Country Girls Trilogy reviewEdna O’Brien – The Country Girls Trilogy

The Country Girls (1960)
The Lonely Girl (1962)
Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964)
Ierse romans
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Edna O’Brien’s debut novels revolutionised Irish literature in the 1960s. Banned by the authorities as ‘indecent’ and burned by the clergy, they were notorious for their frank portrayal of sexual desire: but scandal turned to fame, and made this glorious coming-of-age tale an instant classic that inspires and delights readers to this day…lees verder >

Flann O'Brien Het Dalkey-archief recensieFlann O’Brien – The Dalkey Archive

Ierse roman uit 1964
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Nederlandse vertaling: Het Dalkey-archief
In het Dalkey-archief, de laatste hilarische roman van het Ierse genie Flann O’Brien, gaan de luiken open, wordt de fantasie ruimhartig binnengelaten en worden de grenzen van de werkelijkheid maximaal opgerekt…lees verder >

William Trevor – Mrs. Eckdorf in the O’Neill Hotel

Ierse roman uit 1969
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
What was the tragedy that turned O’Neill’s hotel from plush establishment into a dingy house of disrepute? Ivy Eckdorf is determined to find out. A professional photographer, she has come to Dublin convinced that a tragic and beautiful tale lies behind the facade of this crumbling hotel. The aging proprietor lies dying upstairs while her feckless son is lost in a world of drink and horseracing…lees verder >

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Afbeelding bovenzijde: Trinity College Library, Dublin (Z. Plank, Unsplash)

Familieroman, Ierland, Ierse roman, Ierse schrijvers

John McGahern – Amongst Women

John McGahern Amongst Women review, recensie en informatie Ierse familieroman uit 1990. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Amongst Women van de uit Ierland afkomstige schrijver John McGahern die verscheen in 1990. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

John McGahern Amongst Women review en recensie

  • “The finest Irish family novel … We’re held in the grip of this family, and the spare prose of McGahern.” (The Guardian)
  • “McGahern’s ‘masterpiece: the sort of book which you can give anyone of any age and know that they will be changed by it.” (Colm Tóibín)
  • “A book that can be read in two hours, but will linger in the mind for decades.” (Sunday Telegraph)
  • “McGahern brings us that tonic gift of the best fiction, the sense of truth – the sense of transparency that permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our own.” (John Updike)
  • “An overwhelming experience.” (The Times)

John McGahern Amongst Women

Amongst Women

  • Auteur: John McGahern (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: Ierse familieroman uit 1990
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Faber & Faber
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave:  paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

John McGahern Amonst Women review en recensie

  • “The finest Irish family novel … We’re held in the grip of this family, and the spare prose of McGahern.” (The Guardian)
  • “McGahern’s ‘masterpiece: the sort of book which you can give anyone of any age and know that they will be changed by it.” (Colm Tóibín)
  • “A book that can be read in two hours, but will linger in the mind for decades.” (Sunday Telegraph)
  • “McGahern brings us that tonic gift of the best fiction, the sense of truth – the sense of transparency that permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our own.” (John Updike)
  • “An overwhelming experience.” (The Times)

Flaptekst van de Ierse familieroman van John McGahern

Once an officer in the Irish War for Independence, Moran is now a widower, eking out a living on a small farm where he raises his two sons and three daughters. Adrift from the structure and security of the military, he keeps control by binding his family close to him. But as his children grow older and seek independence, and as the passing years bring with them bewildering change, Moran struggles to find a balance between love and tyranny.

John McGahern was born on 12 November 1934 in Dublin. He was the eldest of seven children, raised on a farm in the West of Ireland. The son of a Garda sergeant who had served as an IRA volunteer in the Irish War of Independence, he was devastated by his mother’s Amongst Women John McGahern novel from 1990 first editiondeath when he was nine. An outstanding student, McGahern studied at University College Dublin and became a teacher but was dismissed when his second novel The Dark was banned by the Irish Censury Board. He moved to London where he met his wife madeline Green in 1967 to whom he stayed married until his death. He wrote six novels, short stories en two memoirs. John McGahern died from cancer on 30 March 2006 in the Mater Hospital, Dublin, Ireland at the age of 71. He is buried in St Patrick’s Church, Aughawillan, alongside his mother.

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Geschiedenisboeken, Ierland, Ierse schrijvers

John Gibney – A Short History of Ireland

John Gibney A Short History of Ireland review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van het boek over de geschiedenis van Ierland. Op 24 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press het boek over de Ierse geschiedenis geschreven door de Ierse historicus John Gibney. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

John Gibney A Short History of Ireland review en recensie

  • “A Short History of Ireland stands out for its brevity, but also for its accessibility. (…) A solid introduction not only to the key events and themes of Irish history, but also to the processes of that history, too.” (Seán Hewitt, Irish Times)
  • “This admirable, succinct account of developments in Irish society from the sixteenth century to the present identifies several unresolved historiographical issues, and offers an especially judicious discussion of controversies concerning the 18th and 19th centuries.” (Nicholas Canny, National University of Ireland)

John Gibney A Short History of Ireland

A Short History of Ireland

1500 – 2000

  • Auteur: John Gibney (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: Ierse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 24 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 20,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de geschiedenis van Ierland

A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first century.

Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. Beginning with Ireland’s modern period at the dawn of the sixteenth century, John Gibney continues through to virtually the present day, offering an integrated overview of the island nation’s cultural, political, and socioeconomic evolution.

This succinct, scholarly study covers important historical events, including the Cromwellian conquest and settlement, the Great Famine, and the struggle for Irish independence. Along the way, it explores major themes such as Ireland’s often contentious relationship with Britain, the impact of the Protestant Reformation, the ongoing religious tensions it inspired, and the global reach of the Irish diaspora. This unique, wide-ranging work assimilates the most recent scholarship on a wide range of historical controversies, making it an essential addition to the library of any student of Irish studies.

John Gibney completed his doctorate at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of a number of books including The Shadow of a Year: The 1641 Rebellion in Irish History and Memory.

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Kieran McCarthy – A-Z of Cork

Kieran McCarthy A-Z of Cork review, recensie en informatie boek over de tweede stad van Ierland. Op 15 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Amberley Publishing A-Z of Cork, Places, People and History. Het boek is geschreven door de uit Cork afkomstige auteur Kieran McCarthy.

Kieran McCarthy A-Z of Cork review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van A-Z of Cork, het boek van Kieran McCarthy, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Kieran McCarthy A-Z of Cork

A-Z of Cork

Places – People – History

  • Auteur: Kieran McCarthy (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: boek over de stad Cork
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Amberley Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 15 juni 2025
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Omvang: 96 pagina’s
  • Prijs: £ 15,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over Cork de stad in Ierland

Explore the historic city of Cork in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its history, people and places.

Cork is often described as Ireland’s southern capital. The city’s history goes back to a monastic then Viking settlement in the early medieval period to become Ireland’s second largest city. During the War of Independence in the early twentieth century the city was often at the forefront of fighting, the city centre being burnt down by British forces, and was again the focus of fighting during the ensuing Irish Civil War. The city has always been open to the world, as an Atlantic port, and today the city is a vibrant cultural, industrial and economic centre for south-west Ireland, where the past is in evidence while the city looks forward. Corkonians draw on rich heritage through the city’s history, from sports, maritime traditions, commerce and education to festivals, literature, art, music and the rich Cork accent.

A–Z of Cork reveals the history behind Cork, its streets and buildings, businesses and the people connected with the city. Alongside the famous historical connections are unusual characters, tucked-away places and unique events that are less well-known. Fully illustrated throughout, this book will appeal to all those with an interest in this historic city.

For over twenty years, Kieran McCarthy has actively promoted Cork’s heritage with its various communities and people. He has led and continues to lead successful heritage initiatives through his community talks, City and County school heritage programmes, walking tours, newspaper articles, books and his work through his heritage consultancy business. For the past 16 years, Kieran has written a local heritage column in the Cork Independent on the history, geography and its intersection of modern day life in communities in Cork City and County. He is the author of fourteen books local history books. In June 2009 and May 2014, Kieran was elected as a local government councillor (Independent) to Cork City Council.

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Ierse roman, Ierse schrijvers

Sheridan Le Fanu – Carmilla

Sheridan Le Fanu Carmilla review, recensie en informatie roman uit 1872 van de Ierse schrijver. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de vampierroman Carmilla van de uit Ierland afkomstige schrijver Sheridan Le Fanu. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Sheridan Le Fanu Carmilla review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Carmilla, de roman van de Ierse schrijver Sheridan Le Fanu, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Sheridan Le Fanu Carmilla

Carmilla

  • Auteur: Sheridan Le Fanu (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: Ierse vampierroman uit 1872
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: William Collins Classics
  • Verschijnt: 8 mei 2025
  • Omvang: 160 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de Ierse vampierroman uit 1872

When lonely nineteen-year-old Laura welcomes an enigmatic stranger into her home in the heart of the Stryian forest, she has no idea that the beautiful Carmilla is not what she seems. Laura’s childhood nightmares have resurfaced, and a mysterious illness is beginning to take hold as the intimacy between the two women evolves into something more sinister.

First published in 1872, twenty-six years before Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Le Fanu introduced Carmilla, the original female vampire with a taste for innocent young women. Having influenced countless horror stories for over 150 years, this Gothic tale of dark obsession, ancient legend and wayward daughters is a classic of the genre.

Sheridan Le Fanu was born on 28 August 1814 in Dublin. He was an Irish writer, celebrated for his Gothic tales, ghost stories and mystery novels. Le Fanu\’s best-known works in the horror fiction genre include Uncle Silas (1864); his collection of stories In a Glass Darkly (1872); and the vampire novella Carmilla (1872). He died on 7 February 1873 in Dublin, at 58 years age of a heart attack.

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Seán Hewitt – Hemel, open u

Seán Hewitt Hemel, open u recensie en informatie van de debuutroman van de Ierse schrijver. Op 24 april 2025 verschijnt bij Jonathan Cape de Nederlandse vertaling van Open, Heaven de eerste roman van de in Engeland geboren Ierse schrijver Seán Hewitt. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar

Seán Hewitt Hemel, open u recensie en informatie

  • “Hewitt schrijft met zoveel tederheid en gratie; in Open vormen de hemel, schoonheid, verlangen en de natuurlijke wereld één akkoord dat het hart van de lezer raakt met de onmogelijkheid van liefde. De verhoogde, poëtische staat van de adolescentie wordt hier perfect weergegeven“ (Anne Enright)
  • “Fantastisch… Verankerd door een gegrond gevoel van plaats en het universele thema van het verlangen van adolescenten, raakt het verhaal van Hewitt een resonerende snaar. Het is verbazingwekkend.” (Publishers Weekly)

Seán Hewitt Hemel, open u

Hemel, open u

  • Auteur: Seán Hewitt (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: Ierse roman
  • Origineel: Open, Heaven (april 2025
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Erwin Mortier
  • Uitgever: De Arbeiderspers
  • Verschijnt: 24 april 2025
  • Omvang: 240 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 23,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Seán Hewitt

James, zestien jaar oud, beschermd opgevoed, beleeft zijn pas ontdekte homoseksualiteit in eenzaamheid en angst. Terwijl hij zichzelf en zijn verlangens begint te begrijpen, weet hij ook dat zijn gevoelens hem zullen vervreemden van zijn familie en de dorpse omgeving waarin hij is opgegroeid. Hij droomt van een leven waar autonomie heerst, naar tederheid en seks.

Dan ontmoet hij Luke, een jongen, verlaten door zijn ouders, die in het dorp komt wonen. Aan Luke kleeft gevaar. Hij is mooi, charismatisch, onberekenbaar. Maar onder zijn bravoure gaat een diepe wond schuilt: een verlangen naar zijn vader, naar de geborgenheid van een gezin.

Seán Hewitt is in 1990 geboren in Warrington, Engeland. Hij is een Ierse dichter, schrijver en literair criticus van The Irish Times. Bovendien is hij docent moderne Britse en Ierse literatuur aan Trinity College Dublin. Hij publiceerde J. M Synge: Nature, Politics, Modernism en de dichtbundel Tongues of Fire, waarvoor hij vele literaire prijzen en nominaties kreeg. Hij schreef ook het memoir In donker wijds alom, waarvoor hij eveneens werd bekroond. Zijn eerste roman, Hemel, open u verschijnt in april 2025.

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