No comments about Georgina Campbell's Ireland for Gourmet Golfers: Ireland's Tip-top Golf Courses And the Very Best Placesà (Georgina Campbell's Ireland: The Guide All the Best Places to).

1 comments about James Joyce's Dublin Houses and Nora Barnacle's Galway.

1. This handsome vademecum fits the hand, pleases the eye, and informs the mind of the Joycean pilgrim searching not along the streets for Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, the denizens of Nighttown or the cast from "Wandering Rocks"-- but their engenderer in his native habitat. This parallels not only the ubiquitous electronic and print guidebooks for walkers recreating Bloom's steps, but academic maps for the fictional counterpart, the topographical dictionary by Ian Gunn & Clive Hart, "James Joyce's Dublin," (Thames & Hudson, 2004). Igoe's title speaks for itself.
   
   Igoe, a Joyce scholar and former curator at the Sandymount museum, gives requisite passages from Joyce's fiction, period and recent illustrations, and comprehensive but not mind-numbing biographical details that guide armchair visitors as well as direct real tourists. Neil Hyslop's handsome, readable, and hand-lettered maps recall the elegant ones that used to grace endpapers of historical hardcovers. They are easy to consult, spare enough not to be cluttered with extraneous information, and large enough to be accurate and not merely decorative.
   
   A new version expanded to 208 pp. (shown here, Lilliput Pr.) appeared in June 2007 but I haven't seen it, nor is it listed for sale on Amazon US. I review the 1997 version; I judge that the basics in the older edition should remain the same. Perhaps URLs & updated transport data are added for the itinerary supplement that carefully leads you around by bus to Joyce's Dublin houses, each residence given a few pages per biographically organized chapter, and their environs.

No comments about Portable Ireland: A Visual Reference to All Things Irish (Cyclopedia).

No comments about Insight Fleximap Dublin.

1 comments about Henry Kelly: West of Ireland.

1. This book was invaluable to us on our most recent trip to Ireland. This is a conversationally-annotated guide to 20 places of natural and historic interest in the West of Ireland, including such places as the Burren, Ceide Fields, and Inishbofin. The author gives some history, some personal anecdotes, explicit directions, and even lets you know when to break your trip and find one of the pubs or restaurants nearby that he has enjoyed. He thoughtfully includes a recipe from each, such as that for the delectable garlic mussels prepared at Moran's Oyster Cottage in Kilcogan. If you are planning a trip to the west of Ireland, or if you would just like to try preparing some of the dishes you could eat if you went, this is your book!

No comments about Limerick in Old Picture Postcards.

No comments about Nature Guide to the Aran Islands.

1 comments about The Smith's Hotel Collection: UK and Ireland (The Smiths' Guides).

1. Muddy wasn't the word for the interior printing, a huge disapointment after seeing the brilliant cover design. But the interior images were dark and murky at best. Also, only two hotels in Ireland were mentioned -- why bother?. Avoid this poorly printed, uniformative waste of a tree. I sent this back for a refund. The Smith's should find a new printer.

No comments about Soviet Diary 1927 And Other Writings.

No comments about Dancing On The Waves: Romania's Orphans And The Grand Canal.