Ireland - Frank Delaney torrent

Category: Other
Language: English
Keywords: Delaney Ireland
Written by Frank Delaney
Read by Frank Delaney
Format: MP3

A novel of huge ambition, beautifully told, Ireland is the unstoppably readable story of a remarkable nation. On a November evening in 1951, an itinerant storyteller, the last of a fabled breed, arrives unannounced and mysterious at a house in the Irish countryside. By the fire, he begins to tell the story of this extraordinary island. One of his listeners, a nine-year-old boy, grows so entranced by the storytelling that, when the old man leaves, he devotes his life to finding him again.
It is a search that uncovers both passions and mysteries, in the boy’s life as well as the old man’s. In addition, a remarkable document is quoted from throughout the book - the Storyteller’s own chronicle, poignant, sharp and frequently amusing. Together they comprise the narrative of a people, the history of a nation, the telling of Ireland in all its drama, intrigue and heroism, its philosophy, its spirit, its national ego.
Ireland travels through the centuries by way of story after story, from the savage grip of the Ice Age to the green and troubled land of brochures and headlines. Along the way, we meet foolish kings and innocent monks, god-heroes and great works of art, shrewd Norman raiders and envoys from Rome, leaders, lovers and poets. Each illuminates the magic of Ireland, the troubling power of England and the eternal connection to the raw earth.
From the epic sweep of its telling to the ‘insider’ precision of its characters - great and small, tragic and comic - ‘Ireland - a novel’ rings with the truth of a writer passionate about his own country.
Harper Collins USA in January of 2005.