TY - BOOK TI - Ireland: in word and image. SN - 1599621258 PY - 2013/// CY - [S.l.] PB - Welcome Books KW - Ireland KW - Description and travel KW - In art N2 - reland: In Word and Image is a visual celebration of Ireland accompanied by poetry and literary excerpts from renowned authors whose works were inspired by The Emerald Isle, both past and present, among them: Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Seamus Heaney, Frank McCourt, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats. Photographs are accompanied by richly informative captions. Includes 2 double gatefold and 6 single gatefold pages. There is much said about magical, mystical Ireland, but you don't feel it until you step out of a fog bank into a forest covered by moss-coated tree trunks and edge over to a stream white with foam and red with iron from the soil. I didn't see a banshee or leprechaun, but I felt I was standing on their home turf. -- from the Introduction by Jay Adlersberg ER -