Irish Essays

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    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
    • Length: 25 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • With great originality and wit, Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to the nature of Socialism, from a comic yet profound discussion of naughty seaside postcards to a spirited defense of English cooking....

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    • By: Jonathan Swift
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729....

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    • By: Matthew Arnold
    • Narrated by: Michael Maloney
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869....

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    • By: Samuel Smiles
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-13-17
    • Language: English
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    • Self Help was published in 1859 by Samuel Smiles. It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism"....

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    • In Her Own Words
    • By: Maeve Binchy
    • Narrated by: Kate Binchy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Maeve's Times gives us wonderful insight into a changing Ireland as it celebrates the work of one of our best-loved writers in all its diversity-revealing her characteristic directness, laugh-out-loud humor....

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    • Essays
    • By: Colm Toibin
    • Narrated by: Colm Toibin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature....

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    • Occasional Essays
    • By: Zadie Smith
    • Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Split into five sections - Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, and Remembering - Changing My Mind finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal and cultural....

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    • Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else
    • By: Maeve Higgins
    • Narrated by: Maeve Higgins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • Maeve Higgins was a best-selling memoirist and comedian in her native Ireland when, at the grand old age of 31, she left the only home she’d ever known in search of something more. Like many women in their early 30s, she both was and was not the adult she wanted to be....

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    • By: Colm Toibin
    • Narrated by: Colm Toibin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • From Colm Tóibín, an illuminating, intimate study of Irish culture, history, and literature told through the lives and work of three men - William Wilde, John Butler Yeats, and John Stanislaus Joyce - and the complicated, influential relationships they had with their complicated sons....

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    • By: Ned Palmer
    • Narrated by: Ned Palmer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Cheesemonger Ned Palmer takes us on a delicious journey across Britain and Ireland and through time to uncover the histories of beloved old favourites like Cheddar and Wensleydale and fresh innovations like the Irish Cashel Blue or the rambunctious Renegade Monk....

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    • By: G. K. Chesterton
    • Narrated by: Fred Williams
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • Orthodoxy is Chesterton's great apologia for the Christian faith, which was prompted by a serious attack in 1903 against Christianity by well-known newspaper editor Robert Blatchford....

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    • By: Colm Tóibín
    • Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In his essay about the life of Irish writer John McGahern, Tóibín reveals the tones of melancholy and amusement within both art and the artist....

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    • By: Oscar Wilde
    • Narrated by: Gregory Sheridan
    • Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
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    • This collection contains 21 reviews of artistic events and artifacts which originally appeared between 1877 and 1889. Clearly on display is Wilde's comprehensive knowledge of contemporary painting, fashion, and literature, as well as his capacity to create paradoxical aphorisms....

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    • The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
    • By: Colm Tóibín
    • Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, Colm Tóibín turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats and James Joyce, and their earliest influences: their fathers....

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    • Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
    • By: Salman Rushdie
    • Narrated by: Bamji Firdous
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 05-22-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In these stimulating pieces, Rushdie addresses a variety of subjects, including the death of the novel, India, soccer, and the Rolling Stones....

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    • Down and Out in Paris and London; The Road to Wigan Pier; Homage to Catalonia; Essays; Poems
    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble, Malk Williams
    • Length: 33 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-21
    • Language: English
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    • This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of all George Orwell's greatest non-fiction: three full-length books, a collection of his most well-renowned essays and the complete collection of his poetry....

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