N ew & Fo r t hc oming 20 11 – 2012
Bi o g ra p hy
Oil and Water
Maurice Craig
Marjorie Quarton
Amanda Bell, editor
This book traces the rise and decline of the Anglo-Irish country gentry during the lifetime of Molly Keane (19o4–96), one of its most original and witty novelists. Her career spanned two world wars, the 1916 Rising and the civil war. Molly Keane’s writing is examined from a first novel in her teens through discussion of her eleven subsequent books and five plays. The early death of her husband, followed by the failure of her last play in 1942, effectively stopped her writing for almost twenty years, until the explosive release of her much-loved novels Good Behaviour, Time After Time and Loving and Giving in the 1980s, when she became a media star.
For fifty years, architectural historian Maurice Craig carried a camera nearly everywhere he went. The resulting collection was donated to the Irish Architectural Archive (IAA). Many of these photographs originally featured in the IAA’s 2006 exhibition ‘Maurice Craig: Fifty Years of Photographing Ireland’; others appeared in his best-selling Ireland Observed (1980), co-authored with the Knight of Glin. With an introduction by the photographer and an afterword by Edward McParland, this book is part memento mori, part historical document – a tribute not only to the architecture and buildings of Ireland, but also to one of its greatest champions.
Marjorie Quarton was born in Tipperary in 1930. Her three previous books have been published by The Lilliput Press.
Maurice Craig (1919–2011) was born in Belfast and educated at Cambridge and TCD. Amanda Bell is a freelance editor living in Dublin.
€16.99 pb 196 pages illustrated 978-1-84351-197-7
€25.00 hb 128 pages illustrated 978-1-84351-200-4
Molly Keane and Her World
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