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Article: SOME FRESH TALES FROM THE GRAND STORYTELLERS\This St. Patrick's Day, Irish authors offer 3 new works.(L.A. LIFE)(Review)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- March 17, 1996
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Byline: Nancy Pate Orlando Sentinel
Seamus Heaney won the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature. Brian Friel's plays are Broadway hits. Roddy Doyle, whose new novel will be out next month, won the Booker Prize for his last novel, "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha." Maeve Binchy's popular fiction is a staple of the best-seller lists.
What all of these writers have in common, of course, is that they're Irish. It's well known that Ireland is a nation of grand storytellers and silver-tongued poets and playwrights, and reminding us this St. Patrick's Day there are three new books: one landmark reference work - "The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature" - and two lively ...