The Work
The Matchmaker of Kenmare (February 8, 2011)
"And there's a legend - she had only vague details - that all couples who are meant to marry are connected by an invisible silver cord which is wrapped around their ankles at birth, and in time the matchmaking gods pull those cords tighter and tighter and draw the couple slowly toward one another until they meet." So says Miss Kate Begley, Matchmaker of Kenmare, the enigmatic woman Ben MacCarthy meets in the summer of 1943.
Associated Press says:
"Delaney grabs the reader from the first paragraph with his comfortable and nostalgic style. His metaphors are so visual, readers can taste, smell and see the action. His words make us want to pack up and move to where "on a balmy summer night in the high northwest of Ireland, twilight lingers forever; the sun scarcely leaves the sky."
fiction
The Last Storyteller
"Every legend and all mythologies exist to teach us how to run our days. In kind fashion. A loving way. But there's no story, no matter how ancient, as important as one's own. So if we're to live good lives, we have to tell ourselves our own story. In a good way." So says James Clare, Ben MacCarthy's beloved mentor, and it is this fateful advice that will guide Ben through the tumultuous events of Ireland in 1956.
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The Matchmaker of Kenmare
"And there's a legend - she had only vague details - that all couples who are meant to marry are connected by an invisible silver cord which is wrapped around their ankles at birth, and in time the matchmaking gods pull those cords tighter and tighter and draw the couple slowly toward one another until they meet." So says Miss Kate Begley, Matchmaker of Kenmare, the enigmatic woman Ben MacCarthy meets in the summer of 1943. Read More
Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show
"She sprang from the womb and waved to the crowd. Then she smiled and took a bow." And so we first meet Venetia Kelly, the beguiling actress at the center of this new, spellbinding, and epic novel by Frank Delaney, the bestselling author of Ireland and Shannon. Read More
Shannon, a Novel
In the summer of 1922, Robert Shannon, a young American hero of the Great War, lands in Ireland. A Marine chaplain, he was present at the frightful Battle of Belleau Wood, and he still suffers from shell shock. His mentor hopes that a journey Robert had always wanted to make–to find his family roots–will restore his equilibrium and his vocation. Read More
Tipperary, A Novel
"My wooing began in passion, was defined by violence and circumscribed by land; all these elements molded my soul." So writes Charles O'Brien, the unforgettable hero of bestselling author Frank Delaney's extraordinary new novel - a sweeping epic of obsession, profound devotion, and compelling history involving a turbulent era that would shape modern Ireland. Read More
Ireland, A Novel
Beneath all the histories of Ireland, from the present day, through her long troubled relationship with England and back to the earliest times, there has always been another, less obvious reporter speaking - the oral tradition, Ireland's vernacular narrative, telling the country's tale to her people in stories handed down since God was a boy. Read More
At Ruby's
Jim Hawkins and the Curse of Treasure Island
Pearl
The Amethysts
Desire and Pursuit
A Stranger in their Midst
Telling the Pictures
The Sins of the Mothers
My Dark Rosaleen
non-fiction
Simple Courage
In late December 1951, laden with passengers and nearly forty metric tons of cargo, the freighter S.S. Flying Enterprise steamed westward from Europe toward America. A few days into the voyage, she hit the eye of a ferocious storm. Force 12 winds tossed men about like playthings and turned drops of freezing Atlantic foam into icy missiles. Read More
A Walk to the Western Isles: After Boswell and Johnson
Legends of the Celts
A Walk in the Dark Ages
The Celts
Betjeman Country
James Joyce's Odyssey
collections
Silver Apples, Golden Apples; Best Loved Irish Verse
The Folio Society/Hutchinson Book of Essays
The Folio Book of Irish Short Stories
The Poems of Christy Brown
The Landleaguers by Anthony Trollope
Short Stories from the Strand
The Novels of James Kennaway
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Caitriona by Robert Louis Stevenson
screenplays
Across the River and Into the Trees
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
My Dark Rosaleen
Telling the Pictures
television
Encounter
James Joyce's Centenary
Norman Mailer at Sixty
Omnibus
The Bold Bad Baronet
The Book Programme
The Book Show
The Celts
The Chatsworth Collection
The Frank Delaney Show
The Man America Forgot
The Man with the Black Velvet Glove
The Northern Ireland Peace Process
Who Stole the Crown Jewels?
radio
An Approach to Folk Music
Bookshelf
Gilbert & Sullivan
Letter from London
Meridian
Monday Morning with Frank Delaney
No Petty People
Poetry Please
Round Midnight
Say the Word
The Byerly Turk
The Queen of the Silver Dollar
The Riddle of Erskine Childers
Today
Word of Mouth
The Last Storyteller
"Every legend and all mythologies exist to teach us how to run our days. In kind fashion. A loving way. But there's no story, no matter how ancient, as important as one's own. So if we're to live good lives, we have to tell ourselves our own story. In a good way." So says James Clare, Ben MacCarthy's beloved mentor, and it is this fateful advice that will guide Ben through the tumultuous events of Ireland in 1956.
Occupy Ulysses
Frank Delaney Storytellers: The Druid
Long long ago, when the pigs ate the apples off the trees and the birds flew upside down - so begins a tale by an Irish fireside. And thereby Frank Delaney, the New York Times bestselling author of Ireland, launches Storytellers, a new series of short stories in the oral tradition, created specially for e-readers. In his first story, this master of the legendary form creates The Druid, a fascinating character full of cunning and false magic, who tries to win the hand of a beautiful girl.
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