{"product_id":"9781847176615","title":"A Short History of Ireland's Writers","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn introduction to all the leading Irish writers and some of the lesser known playwrights, novelists, short story writers, poets, placing them in context and providing a list of their works. Commentaries give brief but telling insights into their work.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe story of Irish writing is followed, beginning with Swift, and working through playwrights Synge and O’Casey to Beckett and Friel; from nineteenth-century poetry through Yeats to Seamus Heaney and Paul Durcan; in novels, from Maria Edgeworth, through Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O’Brien, Flann O’Brien to contemporaries Julia O’Faolain, Roddy Doyle and Anne Enright.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Irish American Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137138147568,"sku":"9781847176615","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781847176615_p0.jpg?v=1763749158","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781847176615","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}