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  Benedict Kiely - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Benedict Kiely (born: August 15, 1919) is an Irish author and broadcaster from Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
Benedict Kiely was born on August 15th, 1919 in Drumskinny, County Fermanagh - a townland near Dromore, County Tyrone.
Unbeknownst to Kiely, the new life with the Jesuits was not meant to be either, for, in the spring of 1937, he suffered a serious spinal lesion, which meant he had a lengthly stay in hospital.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benedict_Kiely   (533 words)

  
 Kiely, Benedict Criticism and Essays
Kiely is noted for his lyrical, descriptive stories that evoke the people, mythology, traditions, and rural landscapes of his native Ireland.
Kiely was born on August 15, 1919, in Dromore, Country Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
In “Mock Battle,” Kiely utilizes a mock staging of the Battle of the Boyne as a foil for the story of a failing marriage.
www.enotes.com /short-story-criticism/kiely-benedict   (628 words)

  
 Irish Literary Collections Portal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Benedict Kiely, Irish novelist and short story writer, was born 15 August 1919 in Dromore, County Tyrone, Ireland.
Kiely, married Maureen O'Connell in 1944 and is the father of two daughters and two sons.
Epps was a student of Kiely's while Kiely served as Writer-in-Residence at Emory University and while on vacation to Ireland paid a visit to Kiely.
irishliterature.library.emory.edu /section-content-kiely725_d13e1   (754 words)

  
 Bibliofemme: The Captain with the Whiskers by Benedict Kiely   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bibliofemme: The Captain with the Whiskers by Benedict Kiely
The Captain with the Whiskers by Benedict Kiely
Kiely's narrator is quite a humanist (an antidote to the monstrous Captain maybe?) and we are spared the over-bearing morality that was peddled by the church back then.
www.bibliofemme.com /others/captainwithwhiskers.shtml   (1550 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Collected Stories of Benedict Kiely: Books: Benedict Kiely,Colum McCann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Benedict Kiely is a writer of national and international status.
His writing is at once quintessentially Irish and marvellously universal, and a generation of younger writers owe him an enduring debt of inspiration.
Ben Kiely is a novelist, journalist, biographer, short story writer and gathered in this book are his greatest short stories plus "Proxopera," a novella, undoubtedly the clearest indictment of violence by terrorists in fiction.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0413753409   (337 words)

  
 Laois Nationalist - 1999/06/18: Kiely
THE celebrated novelist, journalist and broadcaster Benedict Kiely will be guest of honour at a Memorial Unveiling Ceremony in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin on Saturday, June 26 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the death of the writer and poet, John Keegan.
The John Keegan Memorial Committee which has spearheaded this project is delighted to welcome Benedict Kiely to the commemoration ceremony as the guest of honour.
More recently, RTE recorded Benedict Kiely’s recitation of Caoch The Piper on its album The Touch of the Master’s Hand which is frequently heard on radio.
archives.tcm.ie /laoisnationalist/1999/06/18/story12153.asp   (266 words)

  
 Desmond Traynor
While some of Kiely’s early stories do have a traditional structure, and follow realist patterns established by O’Connor, O’Flaherty and O’Faolain, for the most part his style is discursive and digressive, and could even be termed expressionist, in that he subordinates realism to inner vision.
For Kiely is a master of technique, and therefore has full licence to play with conventional notions of beginning, middle and end.
Weirdly prescient of the horrible events of August 15, 1998 in Kiely’s hometown of Omagh, it oscillates effortlessly between the first and third person in recounting the story of a retired schoolteacher forced by terrorists to run a proxy bomb into his local town.
www.desmondtraynor.com /books/kiely.html   (513 words)

  
 Benedict Kiely Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
The classic introduction to Ireland's folklore--the only edition approved by the Yeats estate--this treasury of the greatest and most representative Irish folk and fairy tales grandly brings to life the sounds, the feel, and the magic of Ireland and its people.
Benedict Kiely holds the reader as only a great storyteller can, weaving the ordinary and everyday with the gleaming threads of Irish folklore.
Combining the rigour of an anthologist with the informal charm of a legendary raconteur, Benedict Kiely leads us on a delightful ramble around Ireland through song and verse.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Benedict_Kiely   (520 words)

  
 BBC NI - BBC And You - Exhibitions - Poets and Writers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Benedict Kiely - Novelist and Short Story Writer - born 1919
From Dromore, County Tyrone, he was raised in Omagh and educated there and in Laois and Dublin.
In the 1950s, Sam Hanna Bell commissioned Kiely to make a radio profile of William Carleton, based on his classic biography, Poor Scholar (1947).
www.bbc.co.uk /northernireland/bbcandyou/exhibitions/poets/bkiely.shtml   (156 words)

  
 WELB
Pictured at the unveiling of the Benedict Kiely Exhibition in the WELB Library in Omagh are Benedict Kiely’s nieces, Patricia Coleman, Dympna McKay and Margaret Hunter, along with Pat Chesters and 17-month-old Niamh Curran.
The Western Education and Library Board (WELB) in partnership with the Benedict Kiely Literary Committee unveiled an exhibition of works by Benedict Kiely, an international writer from West Tyrone on Monday, 23 August 2005, in Omagh Library.
She said: “Benedict Kiely was one of the most important writers to have lived in the Omagh district and indeed the WELB area.
www.welbni.org /News/details.asp?ID=456   (252 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : A Letter to Peachtree and Nine Other Stories: Livres en anglais: Benedict Kiely   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In his well-received novel, Nothing Happens in Carmincross, Kiely wove a marvelously meandering tale of a writer's return to Ireland from a sabbatical at a college in the South, where the beauty of the American female may have gotten him off-track.
From the opening "Eton Crop," a stylistic tour de force, to "A Letter to Peachtree," Kiely captures both the beauty and bitterness of Irish life.
The stories are often inspired by historyas in "Mock Battle," where the problems of a divided nation are dramatized in a married couple's private battleor love of landas in "A Walk in the Wheat," where a daughter discovers what she and her father have lost in being exiled in America.
www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/ASIN/0879237279   (381 words)

  
 Benedict Kiely
However, I realise you may be looking for current editions, so in-print books by Benedict Kiely may be purchased directly from
Benedict Kiely was born in 1919, near Dromore, Co Tyrone.
His autobiography is Drink to the Bird: An Omagh Boyhood (London, Methuen 1992).
www.irishwriters-online.com /benedictkiely.html   (111 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : The Collected Stories of Benedict Kiely: Livres en anglais: Benedict Kiely,Colum McCann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This collection represents the first time that the complete short stories of Kiely, widely regarded as Ireland's greatest living storyteller, have appeared in print together.
A gifted seanachi in the true sense and spirit of the word, Kiely weaves lyrical stories laced with both disarming humor and intense pathos.
Since many of these stories have never before been available in the U.S., this volume is highly recommended to flesh out Irish literature collections.
www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/ASIN/0413772055   (256 words)

  
 The Collected Stories of Benedict Kiely   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Though born in talk and narrated in a casual manner reminiscent of the traditional Irish storyteller, his stories are more complex.
As Kiely writes of farmers, tradesmen, doctors, priests and publicans, he shows a tolerance for every range and variety of human existence.
"Ireland [is] a place where stories are still told, deliciously and by masters of the art, of whom Benedict Kiely is one, perhaps the foremost." -- New York Times Book Review
www.irishbook.com /item2731.htm   (74 words)

  
 Yeats, William Butler; Kiely, Benedict: Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Yeats, William Butler; Kiely, Benedict: Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland
More than an ambitious and successful effort to preserve the rich heritage of his native land, this volume confirms Yeats's conviction that imagination is the source of both life and art.
As Benedict Kiely observes in his foreword, Yeats was seeking "not for the meaning of any mystery but for what he had already determined to find...a world of the imagination...a world that fed on dreaming and not on the painted toy of grey truth."
www.forbesbookclub.com /BookPage.asp?prod_cd=I58IY   (176 words)

  
 Amazon.com: A Raid into Dark Corners and Other Essays: Books: Benedict Kiely   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Amazon.com: A Raid into Dark Corners and Other Essays: Books: Benedict Kiely
by Benedict Kiely "IF YOU ARE IRISH YOU NEED NOT, necessarily, come into the parlour..." (more)
Benedict Kiely was born in 1919 and is a short-story writer, novelist and critic.
www.amazon.com /Raid-into-Corners-Other-Essays/dp/1859182356   (542 words)

  
 A Letter to Peachtree & Nine Other Stories - BENEDICT KIELY
A Letter to Peachtree and Nine Other Stories - BENEDICT KIELY
A Letter to Peachtree and Nine Other Stories by KIELY, BENEDICT
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www.biblio.com /books/50097915.html   (48 words)

  
 EasyBookSearch.com - Don Kiely, Cheap Books, Compare Book Prices in A Click!
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by Noel Jerke Don Kiely George Szabo David Jung
by Gabriel Kiely Anne O'Donnell Patrica Kennedy Suzanne Quin Anne O'Donnell" Kiely "Gabriel
www.easybooksearch.com /authors/Don_Kiely   (174 words)

  
 The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories -- Benedict Kiely   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories -- Benedict Kiely
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It features the work of such preeminent literary figures as James Joyce, Sean O'Faolain, Mary Lavin, Frank O'Connor, and Liam O'Flaherty, whose work re-established the tradition of the short story; it concludes with more recent exponents of the form, all of them highly acclaimed, including Elizabeth Bowen, William Trevor, and Edna O'Brien.
www.frontlist.com /detail/0140053409   (111 words)

  
 Ireland From the Air : Benedict Kiely
Description: A fine clean copy of "The Aerofilms Book of Ireland From the Air", a superb selection of aeriel photographs, all in glorious full color, taken from this famous archive and covering all thirty two counties of the Emerald Isle.
Engaging text by Dublin academic and novelist Ben Kiely infuses this lovely book with true Irish spirit.
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www.antiqnet.com /detail,ireland-air-benedict,581022.html   (131 words)

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