Rise Above!Rise above!: Letters from Tyrone Guthrie details the life of the celebrated theatrical director whose influence on international theatre lives on. Here, in a stunning volume of letters, we are offered a glimpse into the vision of this extraordinary figure as well as a view of the intimacies of his relationships with his mother, sister, wife and friends. During the 1940s and 1950s, Tyrone Guthrie was renowned for liberating the plays of Shakespeare

beautifully written story of a piece of untold history

poetical leaps and the philosophical bent

Beginning with the rich source material of Acton family papers (a detailed tenant record of Kilmacurragh estate

and enacts one of the central themes of European literature

galloping intrigue packed with narrative twists and sumptuous evocations of Europe’s forgotten past

half completely new

Chesterton

even radical

enlarged edition of a book originally published in 1969 traces the evolution of the species from its origins in Africa and central Asia to its arrival in Ireland in the early mediaeval period

Kinsella and others with fascinating detours into an East Galway childhood and the folk memories of Antony Raftery

a study of the post-Union Irish book trade

but overcoming