Publisher:
Australian Scholarly, North Melbourne, Victoria
"This book brings together sixteen well-known writers from diverse backgrounds: Debra Adelaide, Paul Ashton, Anna Clark, Robert Crawford, John Dale, Ross Gibson, Bridget Griffen-Foley, Lucinda Holdforth, Julia Horne, Paul Kiem, John Maynard, Betty...
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Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
Signature:
2018 A 5167
Inter-library loan:
Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
"This book brings together sixteen well-known writers from diverse backgrounds: Debra Adelaide, Paul Ashton, Anna Clark, Robert Crawford, John Dale, Ross Gibson, Bridget Griffen-Foley, Lucinda Holdforth, Julia Horne, Paul Kiem, John Maynard, Betty O'Neill, Penny Russell, Janis Wilton, Garry Wotherspoon and Clare Wright. It looks at how history -- a discipline which generally strives for critical distance -- and the past -- a concept which is open-ended and useful in the present -- are used in a range of genres from historical and 'true crime' novels to family history and memoir."--Page 4 of cover
Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- CANDIA McWILLIAM The Loopholes of Retreat -- Adomnán Planks -- Communion -- The Gift -- The Drowned Books -- Anon Fil Súil nGlais / A Blue Eye Glancing Back --...
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Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- CANDIA McWILLIAM The Loopholes of Retreat -- Adomnán Planks -- Communion -- The Gift -- The Drowned Books -- Anon Fil Súil nGlais / A Blue Eye Glancing Back -- Thomas Pennant from A Tour in Scotland -- Adomnán War -- Sithean -- Edwin Morgan Columba's Song -- Victoria Mackenzie Crex Crex -- St Columba Altus Prosator -- The Maker on High -- Adiutor Laborantium -- All Labourers' Helper -- George Buchanan from The History of Scotland -- William Shakespeare from Macbeth -- Robert Crawford Icolmkill -- Adomnán The Coof -- The Copyist -- The Light House -- I -- Mick Imlah The Prophecies -- David Kinloch Between the Lines -- Meg Bateman Peploe and Cadell in Iona -- Robert Louis Stevenson Dining at the Argyll Hotel -- Robert Louis Stevenson The Islet -- Anon Meallach Liom Bheith i n-Ucht Oiléan -- Delightful to Be on the Breast of an Island -- Adomnán A Gaelic Quatrain -- Anon La Chaluim-Chille / The Day of St Columba -- Achlasan Chaluim-Chille / Saint John's Wort -- Seamus Heaney Gravities -- Fiona Macleod The Sin-Eater -- Fiona Macleod The Sun-Chant of Cathal -- Adomnán Acts -- Among the Picts -- Adomnán Broichan -- Samuel Johnson In the Morning Our Boat Was Ready -- Adomnán Dùn I -- Forecast -- Iona Fragments -- Blessing -- Pilgrim -- Louise Imogen Guiney Columba and the Stork -- Alice Thompson Hologram -- Alan Dearle The Iona Machine -- Queen Victoria On Visiting Staffa -- Anon A Traditional Gaelic Prophecy -- Kenneth Steven Iona Poems -- Robert Crawford The Marble Quarry -- Amy Clampitt Westward -- Sara Lodge The Grin Without the Cat -- Norman Maccaig Celtic Cross -- Adomnán Columba's Deeds -- Cronan the Poet -- Neman -- Day -- Raiders -- James Boswell Tuesday 19 October 1773 -- Robert Crawford Iona -- St Columba An I Mo Chridhe Beccán Mac Luigdech Tiugraind Beccáin do Cholum Cille -- The Last Verses of Beccan to Colum Cille -- Adomnán The Excommunicant -- The Loch Ness Monster -- The Whale Blessing -- The Trudge -- Jennie Erdal Listening in the Loose Grass -- Christabel Scott from Iona: A Romance of the West -- Adomnán Bed -- The Cry -- Mother -- The Foster-Mother -- Erc -- John Macgilvray from Elegy on Donald McLean, Esq. of Coll (1787) -- William Wordsworth Iona -- Ruth Thomas All the Treasures We Can Have -- Mick Imlah I -- Robert Crawford Mc -- Herman Melville Clarel, XXXV -- St Columba Noli Pater -- Adomnán Calm -- Fifty Yards -- Lionel Johnson Saint Columba -- Adomnán Lightning -- Old -- Retreat -- Walter Scott from The Lord of the Isles, Canto IV -- John Keats Letter to his Brother, while travelling with Charles Brown, 23 and 26 July 1818 -- Meaghan Delahunt To Pick Up a Stone -- Adomnán Machair -- Script -- Diarmait -- Columba's Death -- Drought -- The Work -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements
