"Many a travel picture book is designed to make us dream, and like its equivalent in the cookery field, we can often gaze lovingly at things that we will have no experience of. Christopher Fitz-Simon's The Most Beautiful Villages of Ireland, however, produces an immediate effect that was probably the author's prime intention: within mere pages of this sumptuously illustrated book, the reader is filled with the keenest desire to visit the ..."
"Many a travel picture book is designed to make us dream, and like its equivalent in the cookery field, we can often gaze lovingly at things that we will have no experience of. Christopher Fitz-Simon's The Most Beautiful Villages of Ireland, however, produces an immediate effect that was probably the author's prime intention: within mere pages of this sumptuously illustrated book, the reader is filled with the keenest desire to visit the ..."
"This anthology offers the best new plays from Ireland's Abbey Theatre. In Hugh Leonard's "Love in the Title", a woman's visit to the Irish countryside leads to a surreal meeting with her own mother as a 30-year-old in 1964 and her grandmother as a 20-year-old in 1922. The frank exchanges that mark this meeting allow the women to remain in and represent their times, yet still communicate with each other. Frank McGuinness's "Dolly West's ..."
Eleven Houses(Illustrated) A Memoir of Childhood by ChristopherFitz-Simon Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by Penguin Ireland Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-84488-105-5, ISBN: 1-84488-105-9
"(A perpetual diary, illustrated with hundreds of images from the archives of the Abbey Theatre. This volume carries an authoritative introduction by the writer Christopher Fitz-Simon)"
"Shows Irish hills, mountains, streams, harbors, bridges, country roads, wayside shrines, farms, pubs, mills, homes, and churches, and describes the background of each community"
The Arts in Ireland a Chronology / ChristopherFitz-Simon by ChristopherFitz-Simon Hardcover, 257 Pages, Published 1982 by Humanities Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-391-02578-3, ISBN: 0-391-02578-3
"Einen Bildband mit malerischen Dörfern zu füllen, stellt in Irland ein echtes Problem dar. Denn: Es sind derer zu viele. Auf der (tatsächlich) Grünen Insel erweckt gerade mal Dublin beim Reisenden den Eindruck städtischer Betriebsamkeit und Dimensionen, wenngleich doch immer nach irischen Maßstäben. Autor Christopher Fitz-Simon wählte seine schönsten Dörfer daher auch nach einem zweiten Kriterium aus: Vielfalt der Farben, der Formen. Z ..."
"Einen Bildband mit malerischen Dörfern zu füllen, stellt in Irland ein echtes Problem dar. Denn: Es sind derer zu viele. Auf der (tatsächlich) Grünen Insel erweckt gerade mal Dublin beim Reisenden den Eindruck städtischer Betriebsamkeit und Dimensionen, wenngleich doch immer nach irischen Maßstäben. Autor Christopher Fitz-Simon wählte seine schönsten Dörfer daher auch nach einem zweiten Kriterium aus: Vielfalt der Farben, der Formen. Z ..."
"Révèle la diversité des quatre provinces d'Irlande : Ulster, Leinster, Connacht et Munster à travers leurs plus beaux villages choisis pour leur esthétique et pour le rôle qu'ils ont joué dans l'histoire et la culture irlandaise."