The Irish Review No. 22 by Tom Dunne, FrankMcguinness Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 1998 by Cork University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-85918-190-4, ISBN: 1-85918-190-2
"If Brink's work represents the beginning of a backlash against Spenser and
Ireland, then the Irish University Review's special anniversary edition is an
appropriation of sorts. As the introduction explains, the journal's annual special
issue tradition is to celebrate the achievement of an Irish writer. Anne Fogarty's
introduction works hard to extend this function to an 'unsetding' author, eventually
finding cause to celebrate the ..."
Gates of Gold (Paperback) by FrankMcguinness Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2002 by Faber And Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-21667-3, ISBN: 0-571-21667-6
Dolly West's Kitchen(1st Edition) A Play (Faber Plays) by FrankMcguinness Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2002 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-20370-3, ISBN: 0-571-20370-1
"Two volumes from the Irish playwright Frank McGuinness: a major play on love, family, and war as well as stunning translations of two classicsSet in Buncrana, County Donegal, Ireland, during World War II, Dolly West's Kitchen is centered on a family struggling to come to terms not only with the effects of war on their country and their family but also with their own inability to respond to one another as situations -- and they themselve ..."
"Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller The Doll's House is the new twisting and terrifying thriller in the Detective Inspector Helen Grace series from M.J. Arlidge. Arlidge is the author of Eeny Meeny and Pop Goes the Weasel, and has been dubbed 'the new Jo Nesbo'. 'Detective Inspector Helen Grace is one of the greatest heroes to come along in years.' Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author of The Skin Collector and Solitude Cre ..."
"As it moves from evocations of "Rosa O'Doherty" (d.1660) to "Van Gogh in Donegal" and from locations such as Heathrow Airport and Belgium to the Pacific Coast, this collection celebrates memory, love, and the human spirit."
"All hope seems lost until the sacred oracle speaks and replaces Electra's broken spirit with an unquenchable desire for justice and bloody vengeance."
"Frank McGuinness presents scintillating new versions of two of August Strindberg's plays -- one a major work, the other less well known. Miss Julie is Strindberg's examination of power, sex, and class, set on a midsummer's eve in a nobleman's house and focusing on the shifting relationship between Miss Julie, the daughter of the house, and Jean, her father's manservant. The Stronger is a short play that explores the complex range of emo ..."
"This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activist in Ireland. But in Spain in the 1930's, taking a job of governess in a wealthy family, she finds the same kinds of political unrest. In fact, it isn't long before she finds herself attracted to a married man who is similarly involved in the struggle against fascism and Franco. This awake ..."
"This affecting, bittersweet tale--adapted from Brian Friel's semi-autobiographical Tony Award-winning play--examines the emotional lives of the five unmarried Mundy sisters in 1936 rural Ireland. In their mutual care is 8-year-old Michael (sweetly understated Darrell Johnston), the illegitimate son of youngest sister Christina (Braveheart's Catherine McCormack). A voice-over from the adult Michael recalls that significant summer, in the ..."
Plays Two Mary and Lizzie / Someone Who'll Watch Over Me / Dolly West's Kitchen / The Bird Sanctuary by FrankMcguinness Paperback, 342 Pages, Published 2002 by Faber And Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-21248-4, ISBN: 0-571-21248-4
"This second collection of Frank McGuinness contains his beautifully lyrical plays from 1989 to 1999. The Bird Sanctuary is published here for the first time. The collection also includes Mary and Lizzie, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me and Dolly West's Kitchen, and is introduced by the author."
"God is on fire - his fever is plague. All that was sweet is spilt and gone. The people of Thebes look to Oedipus to lift a terrible curse from them and their city. He consults the oracle and learns that he must root out the late king's murderer. But his relentless interrogation of one man after another leads inexorably, and in the space of a single day, to his own savage conclusion. You are who you are seeking to find. Frank McGuinness' ..."
"Is generally regarded as one of the finest plays to have been written in 19th-century Russia. Contemporary critics viewed it either as showing the dark forces of conservatism or as the highest expression of love for the traditional life and character of the Russian middle class."
"Webster's paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-Indonesian thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen was edited for three audiences. The first includes Indonesian-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second L ..."
The Dead In a Dramatisation by FrankMcGuinness by FrankMcguinness, James Joyce Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2001 by Faber & Faber International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-571-30212-3, ISBN: 0-571-30212-2
"The year is 1904 in the city of Dublin. Gretta and Gabriel Conroy attend the Morkan Sisters annual dinner on the Feast of the Epiphany and the last day of Christmas. An evening of laughter, music and dance ends in an epiphany for Gabriel. Recognised as a masterpiece, "The Dead", the short story from James Joyce's "Dubliners", is dramatised by Frank McGuinness. The play premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in December 2012."