
The Appleman and The Poet
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Whether he is writing about wartime atrocities or local history, the slaughter of the Jews or Celtic hagiography, he speaks with authenticity ... one of the great essayists in the English language, the peer of Hazlitt, Robert Louis Stevenson and George Orwell.' John Banville 'A unique distillation of the Anglo-Irish spirit, as idiosyncratic, mellow and stimulating as poteen matured in a brandy-cask ... His book inspires hope for the twenty-first century.' Dervla Murphy , The Irish Times 'Like Milosz from Poland or Holub from Czechoslovakia, Butler is a true cosmopolitan, and his writing has something of their unruffled astringency and meditative humour.' John Bayley, The Times Literary Supplement '[A] most surprising and exhilarating hamper of essays, full of wit, wisdom, and luminous insights.' Robert Kee , Independent on Sunday 'Butler is an eloquently moral, enlightened and intellectually militant Irishman who uses incisive words as his weapons ... in a modest yet considerable way his name might now begin to take its place in the tradition of such 'solitary' Irish libertarians as Swift and Burke, Davitt and O'Casey, Sheehy-Skeffington, O'Faolain, O'Donnell, MacBride and Noel Browne.' David Krause, Irish Literary Supplement 'To follow Hubert Butler is to enjoy the hair-raising frisson of history passing by.' Eoghan Harris, Image 'Opening the contents page, one has an impression of disparateness; closing the book, of having discovered an oeuvre ... Butler's unadorned style expresses atmosphere with extraordinary clarity.' Roy FosterMore details
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- Title page
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Note on Sources
- Foreword
- PART ONE: Russian Dispatches 1932-1946
- 1. A Stroll Around Leningrad
- 2. Leningrad in 1932
- 3. On a Russian Farm
- 4. Those Russians
- 5. Specialists in a Soviet School
- 6. Soviet Literature - A Survey
- PART TWO: Peace News Papers 1949-1958
- 7. Letter from Ireland
- 8. Pacifism in Ireland
- 9. Wanted: Unofficial Travellers
- 10. Friendship: Personal or Official
- 11. Autoantiamericanism
- 12. Trieste
- 13. Yugoslavia Today
- 14. Tito's Marxist Heritic
- 15. Ireland and Neutrality
- PART THREE: Autobiographies
- 16. Home and Bigshotte Rayles
- 17. Charterhouse
- 18. On Sex
- 19. About Deafness
- 20. The Appleman and the Poet
- PART FOUR: Musings of an Irish Protestant
- 21. Stock-Taking in the Irish Provinces
- 22. No Petty People?
- 23. Reflections of an Unjustified Stay-at-Home
- 24. Protestantism and Unionism: Are they the Same Thing?
- 25. Protestant Timidity
- 26. A Protestant Predicament
- PART FIVE: Family Matters
- 27. By-Products
- 28. An Encounter with Lord Ormonde
- 29. Walter Butler
- 30. Butler's Island in Georgia
- 31. The Butlers of Priestown
- 32. Forewords
- PART SIX: History and Literature under Review
- 33. Jonathan Swift
- 34. Enid Starkie
- 35. W.B. Yeats
- 36. Vienna in 1938
- 37. Denmark's Finest Hour
- 38. The Ant on Top of the Hill
- 39. Some Irish Saints
- 40. Horace Plunkett and the Irish Co-operative Movement
- 41. Good Man and True
- 42. The One and the Many
- 43. Teilhard de Chardin
- 44. Rebecca West in Yugoslavia
- 45. Ronald Reagan and the American Wall of Separation: A View from Ireland in 1985
- Endnote
- Notes
- Copyright
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