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Foster's Whist Manual, Third Edition
Whist was a wildly popular card game in the late 19th century--so popular that it was almost one's social duty to become an accomplished Whist player. Among the most reliable …
W. B. Yeats: A Life Vol.2
The second and final volume in Roy Foster's biography of W. B. Yeats covers the second half of Yeats's life, taking in his controversial political involvements, continued …
Luck and the Irish
From 1970, things were changing in Ireland the Celtic Tiger had finally woken, and the rules for everything from gender roles and religion to international relations were being …
Words Alone
W. B. Yeats is usually seen as a great innovator who put his stamp so decisively on modern Irish literature that most of his successors worked in his shadow. R. F. Foster's …
Vivid Faces
OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014WINNER OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S MORRIS D. FORKOSCH …
Irish Story
Each of Foster's books has generated vigorous discussion, but in THE IRISH STORY he breaks fresh ground even by his own standards. Driven by his sense of the seriousness of …
Foster's Bridge Manual
Foster's Pirate Bridge
W. B. Yeats, A Life I
In the first authorized biography of W. B. Yeats for over 50 years, Roy Foster brings new light to one of the most complex and fascinating lives of the late nineteenth and early …
W. B. Yeats: A Life II
The acclaimed first volume of this definitive biography of W. B. Yeats left him in his fiftieth year, at a crossroads in his life. The subsequent quarter-century surveyed in The …
Foster's Russian Bank
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with …
Paddy and Mr Punch
A rich collection of essays which explore the paradoxes of the Irish political and social identity. As a follow up to Modern Ireland, R.F. Foster addresses the turbulent history of …