The Crying of the Wind - Ithell Colquhoun

The Crying of the Wind

Ireland
Buch | Softcover
192 Seiten
2025
Pushkin Press Classics (Verlag)
978-1-80533-156-8 (ISBN)
16,20 inkl. MwSt
Into the world of 1950s Ireland - a lushly green, windswept landscape studded with holy wells and the decaying country houses of a vanished ruling class - arrives Ithell Colquhoun. An occultist and a surrealist painter, Colquhoun's travels around the island are guided by her artist's eye and her feeling for the world beyond our own, as well as her spikily humorous view of the people she meets. We encounter faeries and pagan rituals, ruined churches and Celtic splendour, rowdy bohemians and Anglo-Irish landowners fallen on hard times, as the author carouses through Dublin and tramps the hills of Connemara in this classic travelogue.

Richly visual and full of sly wit, this is an account of Ireland as only Colquhoun could see it, a land where myth and magic meet wind and rain, and the song of the secret kingdom is heard on city streets.

Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) was born in British India and brought up in the United Kingdom. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and started exhibiting her paintings in the 1930s, gaining some renown as one of the few women associated with British Surrealism. She began visiting Cornwall during the Second World War, and eventually moved there, continuing to write, paint, and pursue the study of the occult until her death. As well as The Crying of the Wind: Ireland, she is the author of The Living Stones: Cornwall and the novel Goose of Hermogenes, both forthcoming from Pushkin Press.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:



The Liffey Valley
Dublin
Glendalough
Lucan
East to West
Letterdyfe
Roundstone
Croagh Patrick
Tobar Breanainn
Legendary Background
Finvarra and the Seven Daughters
Midsummer
The Martins
Cashel and Toombeola
West to East
Dublin Again
Night Life
Near Drogheda
The Hag’s Mountain
Knowth and Slane
Tara of the Kings
The Municipal Gallery Visited

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.6.2025
Einführung Jennifer Higgie
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Esoterik / Spiritualität
Reisen Reiseberichte Europa
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10 1-80533-156-6 / 1805331566
ISBN-13 978-1-80533-156-8 / 9781805331568
Zustand Neuware
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