And As I Rode by Granard MoatRescued from memory by Irelands leading short story writer and raconteur, this anthology weaves a rich tapestry of songs, ballads and poetry reaching across three centuries and drawn from the lanes and highways of thirty two counties. Contents include poetry by W. B. Yeats, A. E., F. R. Higgins, Louis MacNeice, Patrick Kavanagh, Francis Ledwidge and Oliver St John Gogarty; and songs of love, rebellion and in praise of nature including The Yellow

And the records of the Society have been mined for material which illustrates its development

wild student parties

the family is highly literate

centrepiece to the collection

the first Irish-born Superior Generalof the Society of Jesus

A Commonplace Book was a scrapbook for sayings

taken in the same environs

appears here for the first time in English

on eighteenth-century flour milling

to St Ives on her marriage in the 1940s

Part III focuses on Evans’ beloved Ulster and its people: from Rathlin Island

mountains and sky