In a literary travel anthology, poetry, essays, fiction, and travelogues offer a kaleidoscopic portrait of the land, people, and culture of Ireland, in works by Frank McCourt, Samuel Beckett, Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Edna O'Brien, Paul Theroux, T. H. White, George Bernard Shaw, John Betjeman, Anthony Trollope, and other notable authors. Original. 17,500 first printing.