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Ireland's Eye: Travels
Book by MARK ANTHONY JARMAN
- GenresNonfiction
Hardcover
First published November 6, 2002
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About the author
Mark Anthony Jarman
35 books24 followersMark Anthony Jarman is the author of Knife Party at the Hotel Europa, My White Planet, 19 Knives, New Orleans Is Sinking, Dancing Nightly in the Tavern, and the travel book Ireland’s Eye. His novel, Salvage King Ya!, is on Amazon.ca’s list of 50 Essential Canadian Books and is the number one book on Amazon’s list of best hockey fiction.
He has won a Gold National Magazine Award in nonfiction, has twice won the Maclean-Hunter Endowment Award, won the Jack Hodgins Fiction Prize, and has been included in The Journey Prize Anthology and Best Canadian Stories and short-listed for the O. Henry Prize and Best American Essays.
He has published in Walrus, Canadian Geographic, Hobart, The Barcelona Review, Vrij Nederland, and reviews for The Globe & Mail. He is a graduate of The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a Yaddo fellow, has taught at the University of Victoria, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and now teaches at the University of New Brunswick, where he is fiction editor of The Fiddlehead literary journal.
A.S. BYATT on Mark Jarman:
At last. It is very irritating to discover a wonderful book published too long ago to be an official "book of the year". I was talking to a German friend, a few years ago, and we were trying to think of the greatest short story ever. We agreed enthusiastically that it was Henry James's "The Beast in the Jungle". Martin then said reflectively, "Unless it is 'Burn Man on a Texas Porch'." I had never heard of that, nor of its author, Mark Anthony Jarman, a Canadian. (Canadians specialise in great short stories - Munro, Atwood.) Jarman's collection is called 19 Knives, and it is brilliant. The writing is extraordinary, the stories are gripping, it is something new. And now I can say so.
—The Guardian, November 24, 2007
He has won a Gold National Magazine Award in nonfiction, has twice won the Maclean-Hunter Endowment Award, won the Jack Hodgins Fiction Prize, and has been included in The Journey Prize Anthology and Best Canadian Stories and short-listed for the O. Henry Prize and Best American Essays.
He has published in Walrus, Canadian Geographic, Hobart, The Barcelona Review, Vrij Nederland, and reviews for The Globe & Mail. He is a graduate of The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a Yaddo fellow, has taught at the University of Victoria, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and now teaches at the University of New Brunswick, where he is fiction editor of The Fiddlehead literary journal.
A.S. BYATT on Mark Jarman:
At last. It is very irritating to discover a wonderful book published too long ago to be an official "book of the year". I was talking to a German friend, a few years ago, and we were trying to think of the greatest short story ever. We agreed enthusiastically that it was Henry James's "The Beast in the Jungle". Martin then said reflectively, "Unless it is 'Burn Man on a Texas Porch'." I had never heard of that, nor of its author, Mark Anthony Jarman, a Canadian. (Canadians specialise in great short stories - Munro, Atwood.) Jarman's collection is called 19 Knives, and it is brilliant. The writing is extraordinary, the stories are gripping, it is something new. And now I can say so.
—The Guardian, November 24, 2007
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January 28, 2008
The author is a Canadian born to an Irish mother and English father. He travelled to England & Ireland as a teenager and goes back to Ireland as often as he can afford it. He feels a strong connection to his mother's family and part of the book is his quest to find the story behind the death of his grandfather. He drowned in the Royal Canal the day of Michael Collins' funeral; a tragedy that shadowed the life of his widow and ten children.
The book was written in 2002 and much of it is a reflection on the changes in Ireland due to the Celtic Tiger. As someone with a similar background to the author, I could deeply relate to his feelings and his experiences.
The book was written in 2002 and much of it is a reflection on the changes in Ireland due to the Celtic Tiger. As someone with a similar background to the author, I could deeply relate to his feelings and his experiences.
June 30, 2009
So excited about this! So far it's hilarious and fascinating. I can't believe I scored it for $5 in Victoria.
February 18, 2016
Very entertaining and enlightening, informative as well as sad and a bit depressing, it is a terrific read.The author has a bit of Hunter S. Thompson poking through at times!
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