About the Work

Tipperary, A Novel: on sale on November 6th, 2007

Dear Reader,

Tipperary is a novel about love and justice. Love of a man for a woman, love of a people for their land, love for a magical place in sad disrepair. Justice in the heart's court, justice in the court of nations, justice in deep and secret truths finally brought to light.

This is brilliantly grand historical fiction, filled with exquisite detail borne on great waves of emotion. It has the scope, the intelligence, the humor, and the drama that made Frank Delaney's Ireland, a New York Times bestseller, and it confirms the author's place at the forefront of today's novelists. I hope you will enjoy reading Tipperary.

Sincerely,

Daniel Menaker
Senior Vice President
Random House

fiction

Tipperary, A Novel
Ireland, A Novel
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

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non-fiction

Simple Courage
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

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collection

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

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screenplay

Across the River and Into the Trees

From the Hemingway novella, for Working Title Television, London.

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

From the James Hilton book, directed by Stuart Orme, aired on ITV London 2002 and Masterpiece Theater 2003.

My Dark Rosaleen

From Frank's own novella, endowed by the European Script Fund.

Telling the Pictures

From his own novel, under option with Spikings Entertainment, Los Angeles.

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television

Encounter

RTE weekly religious affairs series.

James Joyce's Centenary

He was born on February the 2nd 1882 and this documentary aired a hundred years later.

Norman Mailer at Sixty

The Lion of Brooklyn in his den; brilliant, witty, provocative and wearing his age lightly.

Omnibus

BBC weekly arts series.

The Bold Bad Baronet

How a 19th Century Irishman's jealousy inspired an epic poem.

The Book Programme

A weekly magazine show of film about and interviews with the world's best-selling authors

The Book Show

A special series on BBC 2, which examined, among other things, the economics of professional writing.

The Celts

The six part series of hour-long documentaries bringing to light one of Europe's oldest and most exciting civilizations.

The Chatsworth Collection

On its return from the US, this magnificent collection of art and objets rested briefly in the Royal Academy London.

The Frank Delaney Show

Interviewing writers, artists, politicians and opinion makers from across the spectrum.

The Man America Forgot

A study of Charles Thomson, the Irishman who was John Hancock's co-signatory.

The Man with the Black Velvet Glove

Why a great political leader always kept one hand covered.

The Northern Ireland Peace Process

The possibilities, the hopes, the pitfalls: two hours on Sky Television.

Who Stole the Crown Jewels?

And no one ever found out.

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radio

An Approach to Folk Music

Earliest broadcasts, covering the folk music explosion across the world and tracing the roots of the most known songs and performers.

Bookshelf

A weekly magazine dwelling in the world of authorship, reading and publishing.

Gilbert & Sullivan

A series tracing the history of the great Victorian light opera partnership.

Meridian

The BBC World Service thrice-weekly arts magazine.

Monday Morning with Frank Delaney

Weekly show out of Belfast examining all shades of life, opinion and belief.

No Petty People

The political condition of late twentieth-century Protestantism in the Irish Republic.

Poetry Please

The weekly poetry request programme.

Round Midnight

Two hours of late-night music and interviews.

Say the Word

A parlour game, good-humoured quiz show based on word origins and language usage.

The Byerly Turk

Award-winning history of thoroughbred horse breeding.

The Queen of the Silver Dollar

Award-winning investigation into prostitution in Ireland.

The Riddle of Erskine Childers

A CBC documentary on the man who wrote the Riddle of the Sands and died in the Irish Civil War.

Today

Reporter and sometimes anchor of the BBC Radio Four flagship morning news and current affairs show.

Word of Mouth

A weekly magazine about the contradictions, delights and meanderings of the English language.

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theater

Betjeman Country

a National Theater production with music 1983

Re-Joyce

A one-man 'Platform Performance' , National Theater, London 1982.

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