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La Famille DunneSéries

Cette série explore les vies et les héritages d'une famille irlandaise de premier plan qui a façonné l'histoire pendant l'ascension et le déclin d'un empire. Suivez les destins et les luttes intérieures de personnages aux prises avec des démons personnels et de grands événements historiques. Les récits sont empreints de nostalgie, de regret et d'un désir de rédemption. Elle offre un drame humain poignant avec une profonde perspicacité psychologique.

A Long Long Way
The Steward of Christendom
On Canaan's Side
Annie Dunne

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  1. 1

    The Steward of Christendom

    • 96pages
    • 4 heures de lecture
    3,8(20)Évaluer

    The play that established Barry as one of Ireland's most powerful contemporary playwrightsThomas Dunne, ex-chief superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan police looks back on his career built during the latter years of Queen Victoria's empire, from his home in Baltinglass in Dublin in 1932. Like King Lear, Dunne tries valiantly to break free of history and himself. The Steward of Christendom took London by storm when it premiered at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in March 1995 with Donal McCann in the title role. It transferred to Broadway and has toured around the world."Sebastian Barry's beautiful and devastating memory play...will stay with us for many years." (New York Times)

    The Steward of Christendom
  2. 2

    Annie Dunne

    • 240pages
    • 9 heures de lecture
    3,8(1293)Évaluer

    Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farm in a remote and beautiful part of Wicklow in late 1950s Ireland. The world of childish innocence also proves sometimes darkened and puzzling to her, and she struggles to find clear ground, clear light - to preserve her sense of love and place against these subtle forces of disquiet. schovat popis

    Annie Dunne
  3. 3

    A Long Long Way

    4,1(6192)Évaluer

    One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry's highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields and that festering at home, waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising. Profoundly moving, intimate and epic, A Long Long Way charts and evokes a terrible coming of age, one too often written out of history.

    A Long Long Way
  4. 4

    On Canaan's Side

    4,1(108)Évaluer

    'As they used to say in Ireland, the devil only comes into good things.'Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The story then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Dublin, at the end of the First World War, and follows her life through into the new world of America, a world filled with both hope and danger. At once epic and intimate, Lilly's narrative unfurls as she tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched. Spanning nearly seven decades, it is a novel of memory, war, family-ties and love, which once again displays Sebastian Barry's exquisite prose and gift for storytelling.

    On Canaan's Side