Franco-Irish Connections: Essays, Memoirs and Poems in Honour of Pierre Joannon

This collection of essays, memoirs and poems celebrates Pierre Joannon, one of the main mediators of knowledge of Irish matters in France and co-founder of �tudes Irlandaises, the most respected scholarly journal of Irish studies in France. The book contains personal tributes from Michel Déon, David Norris, Anne Madden, Louis Le Brocquy, Seamus Smith, Seamus Heaney, Brendan Kennelly and Frédéric Grasset, among others. The essays are written by a number of well known Irish and French academics and dignitaries, including John Bruton, John Hume, Joe Lee, Lara Marlowe, Louis Cullen, Thomas Bartlett and Garret FitzGerald. The book also contains an Hommage à Pierre Joannon by Michel Déon of l'Académie Française.