The Shannon Navigation HBThe Shannon Navigation by Ruth Delany traces the history of the River Shannon as a navigation up to the present day from the 1750s when the early works were commenced under the Commissioners of Inland Navigation and subsequently under the Directors General of Inland Navigation from 1800 to 1831. These works, which took many years to complete, were not very successful and were badly maintained. In the 1830s the arrival of steamers focussed attention on

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Winner of the John McGahern Prize

appearing again and again in his key films such as The Long Way Home (1940)

The Fabulists

'I was hugely impressed by The Spinning Heart

In charge of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation since its inception in 1985

Rounded and backed

a century later

Through crystalline prose and an unsparing eye

and at Harvard University

and to this book

but sometimes there are unexpected