New Releases by Sebastian Barry

Now we''ve lived together in contentment, more or less, for nigh on twenty year. Like turtle doves. - In prison, I mean, for fuck''s sake, the chances of that. PJ and Christy: sworn enemies destined to share one small room for twenty years. As the two men recall the joys and torments of life outside - the childhood excursions, a deadly brawl, past loves and summer dresses - slowly they uncover the tragic events that have lead them to their cell in Montjoy. A play that explores our capacity to commit the deadliest of crimes but also our capacity for survival, reconciliation and love, ON BLUEBERRY HILL by Sebastian Barry (twice winner of the Costa Book of the Year) premiered in a Fishamble production at the Pavilion Theatre as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival and at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris in October 2017.

«En el lado de Canaán está escrita con una enorme ternura y compasión. Sebastian Barry maneja de una manera magistral la voz y el ritmo de la novela; su universo de ficción está lleno de vida, de verdades silenciosas y de una exquisita intimidad. Es un autor que sabe captar el poder y la ironía de la historia. Al evocar a Lilly Bere ha creado un personaje especialmente memorable.» Colm Tóibín «Una novela épica en su manera de avanzar pero íntima en su tono... un libro con un contenido poético deslumbrante... En el lado de Canaán debe ser celebrada por la belleza, la sabiduría y el placer que nos proporciona.» The Sunday Telegraph Cuando Lilly empieza su historia, su nieto Bill acaba de morir. Así vuelve a su juventud cuando tuvo que huir con su novio de Irlanda a Estados Unidos, amenazados ambos de muerte por el IRA. La novela, cuya acción nos golpea desde el principio, trata de Lilly, de los hombres de su vida y de su destino, a ratos terrible y a ratos sorprendente, pero también de cómo la violencia y la inseguridad del siglo XX pesan sobre la vida particular de una mujer sencilla y valiente. Sebastian Barry narra la peripecia de una resistente que sobrevive a varias tragedias... a pesar de haber nacido para disfrutar de una existencia humilde y plácida en Dublín. En el lado de Canaán es una historia épica e íntima a la vez, una novela sobre la memoria, la guerra, los lazos familiares y el amor pero, sobre todo, sobre el perdón y la compasión.

Un hombre y una mujer caminan muy juntos por la playa. Hace frío, pero no importa. De repente se esconden detrás de unas dunas para celebrar su primer acto de amor carnal. Él es Lotto, ella es Mathilde, los dos tienen veintidós años y acaban de casarse, aunque solo llevan unos quince días juntos y saben muy poco el uno del otro. El hilo de sangre que mancha los muslos de Mathilde sella esta entrega que parece absoluta y exclusiva, y así será durante más de veinte años. Lotto y Mathilde se convierten en la pareja casi perfecta; basta una mirada para que se entiendan, un gesto cómplice para que los dos dejen una sala abarrotada de gente y aprovechen cualquier rincón para amarse. Lotto se dedica a escribir obras de teatro al hilo de su pasión por Shakespeare y Mathilde se convierte en la esposa ideal, que es musa, empresaria y ama de casa. Bien, hasta que de repente el destino se impone. Es entonces cuando ...

OLD GOD''S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY''S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW See, love between a man and a woman, it''s - private. It happens where you never do see it. In rooms. Italy 1 - Ireland 0... The score that marked Ireland''s demoralizing exit from Italia ''90 took its toll. No more so than for Janet and Joe Brady of Parnell Street who lost far more than the match that night. Some years on, Joe and Janet reveal the intimacies of their love and the rupture of their marriage, through interconnecting monologues that also evoke their life-long love affair with Dublin city itself. Sebastian Barry''s explores with vivid tenderness the devastating effects of public and private acts of violence. This is an intimate, heroic tale of ordinary and extraordinary life on the streets of Dublin. Fishamble''s world premiere of The Pride of Parnell Street opened at the Tricycle Theatre, London, and as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival at the Tivoli Theatre, Dublin, in September 2007.

OLD GOD''S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY''S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW Whistling Psyche A dark night, an old waiting room and two supposed strangers eager to reach their destinations. In the cold hours that rest between nightfall and daybreak, silent questions prompt unexpected revelations. Two souls share a passion for reform, but only one - Miss Nightingale - has been honoured. The other, Dr Barry, would never receive the same acclaim, but notoriety came after death and for a very different reason . . . Whistling Psyche premièred at the Almeida Theatre, London in May 2004. Fred and Jane explores the deep and sustaining friendship between two nuns, Anna and Beatrice, as they recall the trials and joys of religious life. ''This is Barry at his best: evocative, gentle, suffused with the beauty of the simple and the joy of turning the strange into the familiar.'' Sunday Tribune ''A rare delight. A clear-running joy.'' Sunday Independent ''A triumph in its own right.'' RTE Fred and Jane premièred at Bewley''s Cafe Theatre, Dublin in 2002.

From his grave in the precincts of Canterbury Cathedral, Dallas Sweetman is called to give account. He tells a story of love and death, jealousy and miraculous happenings, of the divided loyalties of Protestants and Catholics in the Elizabethan Age. Before us, his judges, Dallas seeks to justify the actions of his life. But is he telling the truth? And can he be forgiven? The lost tradition of staging new plays at Canterbury Cathedral, most famously T. S. Eliot''s Murder in the Cathedral, was revived with the premiere of Sebastian Barry''s Dallas Sweetman in September 2008.

Celebrated children''s writer Hans Christian Andersen arrives, unannounced, for a stay at Gad''s Hill Place in the Kent marshes - home to Charles Dickens and his large, charismatic family. To the lonely and eccentric guest, the members of Dickens'' household seem to live a life of unreachable bliss. But with his broken English, Andersen doesn''t at first see the storms brewing within the family: undeclared passions, a son about to go to India, and a growing strangeness at the heart of Dickens'' marriage. Andersen''s English by Sebastian Barry premiered at the Theatre Royal, Bury, in February 2010 in a production by Out of Joint.

L''Irlandais Jack McNulty est un ''homme provisoire'', tout comme l''ont été ses missions avec l''armée britannique durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. En 1957, installé à Accra, en proie à l''angoisse et au ressassement, il décide de rédiger l''histoire de sa vie. Homme ordinaire, aussi héroïque qu''insignifiant, Jack a été le témoin de choses extraordinaires. Il a travaillé et erré à travers le monde, tour à tour soldat, ingénieur, observateur de l''ONU. Son mariage avec Mai, la plus jolie fille de Sligo, est à la fois étrange et tumultueux, mais comme tout le reste, il finira par lui glisser entre les doigts...

A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture. Sebastian Barry''s latest novel, A Thousand Moons, is now available. Irishman Jack McNulty is a “temporary gentleman”—an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he’s writing the story of his life with desperate urgency. He cannot take one step further without examining all the extraordinary events that he has seen. A lifetime of war and world travel—as a soldier in World War II, an engineer, a UN observer—has brought him to this point. But the memory that weighs heaviest on his heart is that of the beautiful Mai Kirwan, and their tempestuous, heartbreaking marriage. Mai was once the great beauty of Sligo, a magnetic yet unstable woman who, after sharing a life with Jack, gradually slipped from his grasp. Award-winning author Sebastian Barry’s The Temporary Gentleman is the sixth book in his cycle of separate yet interconnected novels that brilliantly reimagine characters from Barry’s own family.

Jack McNulty is een `tijdelijke gentleman, een Ier wiens aanstelling in het Engelse leger tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog nooit vast is geweest. Ook zijn huwelijksgeluk met Mai Kirwan, het mooiste meisje van Sligo, is geen lang leven beschoren. Na vele omzwervingen, als soldaat, ingenieur en observator voor de Verenigde Naties, komt Jack uiteindelijk in Accra terecht, waar hij besluit zijn grillige levensverhaal op papier te zetten. Sebastian Barry werkt gestaag voort aan een reeks onafhankelijk van elkaar te lezen romans waarin hij één familie, zijn eigen, op de voet volgt en zo de twintigste-eeuwse geschiedenis van Ierland en de Ieren in kaart brengt. In ons taalgebied vonden al meer dan 35 000 van zijn boeken hun weg naar de lezers.

En fantastisk fortelling om en kvinne med et stort hjerte. Historien om Lilly Bere strekker seg over syv tiår – fra depresjonen via andre verdenskrig og Vietnamkrigen, frem til slutten av 1900-tallet. Vi får høre om Lillys flukt fra Irland og IRA til USA, om det brutale drapet på forloveden, om kjærligheten som dukker opp på nytt og forsvinner igjen, om Lilly som strever for å forsørge seg selv og sin sønn, og om sønnen som overlever Vietnamkrigen, men som forsvinner på sin ferd tilbake til USA.

Obligée autrefois de fuir l’Irlande et les siens avec son fiancé pour de mystérieuses raisons, Lilly Bere, à quatre-vingt-neuf ans, revit le chemin parcouru depuis son arrivée dans le Nouveau Monde – le côté de Canaan – au rythme des hommes de sa vie. D’une traversée clandestine à leur installation précaire à Chicago, le jeune couple n’aspire qu’à une vie normale. Mais c’est sans compter avec la menace sourde qui pèse sur eux, et qui va pousser Lilly, désormais seule au monde, à s’enfuir à Cleveland. Devenue employée de maison grâce à son amie Cassie, elle y est témoin des injustices et du racisme de la société américaine. Quand elle rencontre le séduisant et énigmatique Joe, elle croit enfin toucher le bonheur du doigt – jusqu’à une explosion pendant laquelle Joe disparaît... Ce n''est là qu''un des nombreux mystères de la vie de Lilly, racontée comme un thriller, et imprégnée d’une infinie douceur.

Een 89-jarige vrouw, die al vanaf haar 16e in Amerika woont, ziet in de dood van haar kleinzoon aanleiding om haar herinneringen te noteren.

Een ten onrechte in een psychiatrisch ziekenhuis opgenomen Ierse vrouw van bijna honderd jaar vertelt haar levensverhaal.

A dark night, an old waiting room and two supposed strangers eager to reach their destinations. In the cold hours that rest between nightfall and daybreak, silent questions prompt unexpected revelations. Two souls share a passion for reform, but only one - Miss Nightingale - has been honoured. The other, Dr Barry, would never receive the same acclaim, but notoriety came after death and for a very different reason ... ''Whistling Psyche'' premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London in May 2004.

Longlisted for the Booker Prize, a mesmerizing new novel from the award-winning author of Old God''s Time A first-person narrative of Lilly Bere’s life, On Canaan’s Side opens as the eighty-five-year-old Irish émigré mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly, the daughter of a Dublin policeman, revisits her eventful past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland at the end of the First World War. She continues her tale in America, where—far from her family—she first tastes the sweetness of love and the bitterness of betrayal. Spanning nearly seven decades, Sebastian Barry’s extraordinary fifth novel explores memory, war, family ties, love, and loss, distilling the complexity and beauty of life into his haunting prose.

De Ier Willie Dunne is nog maar net achttien jaar als hij zijn verloofde Gretta verlaat om in Vlaanderen met het Britse leger mee te vechten in de bloedige strijd die later de Eerste Wereldoorlog zou gaan heten. Tijdens zijn verlof breekt in Dublin de Paasopstand tegen de Engelsen uit. Willie sympathiseert met de opstandelingen en haalt zich daarmee de woede van zijn vader op de hals. Ook Gretta breekt met hem, nadat ze erachter is gekomen dat hij zich in Vlaanderen heeft misdragen. Verteerd door twijfel en verdriet keert Willie terug naar de loopgraven. Hij vecht voor zijn leven in een oorlog die slechts verliezers kent.

As a young woman, Roseanne McNulty was one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland. Now, as her hundredth year draws near, she is a patient at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, and she decides to record the events of her life.