Into the mountains : images from the Twelve Bens / Joe Wilson ; introduction Colm Toibin ; series editor Jim Savage.
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TextPublication details: Aghabullogue, Co. Cork : Occasional Press in a collaboration with Ballynahinch Castle, 2014.Description: 52 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 22 x 31 cmISBN: - 9780956478672
- 9780956478689
- 759.2915 WIL
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Exhibition Catalogues | 759.2915 WIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100585257 |
Limited edition 150 hardbacks carrying an original print signed and numbered by the artist, and a paperback edition of 150.
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Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, Ireland in 1955. He studied history and English at University College Dublin, earning his B.A. in 1975. After graduating he moved to Barcelona for three years and taught at the Dublin School of English.In 1978 he returned to Dublin and began working on an M.A. in Modern English and American Literature. He wrote for In Dublin, Hibernia, and The Sunday Tribune. He became the Features Editor of In Dublin in 1981, and then a year later accepted the position of Editor for the Irish current affairs magazine Magill.
His first book, Walking Along the Border, was published in 1987 and his first novel, The South, was published in 1990. He wrote for The Sunday Independent as a drama or television critic and political commentator. He writes regularly for The London Review of Books.
He has written several other novels including The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, and Nora Webster. The Heather Blazing received the 1993 Encore Award and The Master received the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Stonewall Book Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. He was short listed for the 2015 Folio Prize for his title Nora Webster.
(Bowker Author Biography)