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Audiobooks Narrated by Gabriel Byrne
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"This audiobook is exquisitely and eloquently read by the author, Gabriel Byrne.
Walking with Ghosts is the stunningly evocative memoir by Irish actor and Hollywood star, Gabriel Byrne.
'Dreamy, lyrical and utterly unvarnished' - Colm Tóibín
As a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin, Gabriel Byrne sought refuge in a world of imagination among the fields and hills near his home, at the edge of a rapidly encroaching city. Born to working-class parents and the eldest of six children, he harboured a childhood desire to become a priest. When he was eleven years old, Byrne found himself crossing the Irish Sea to join a seminary in England. Four years later, Byrne had been expelled and he quickly returned to his native city. There he took odd jobs as a messenger boy and a factory labourer to get by. In his spare time he visited the cinema, where he could be alone and yet part of a crowd. It was here that he could begin to imagine a life beyond the grey world of '60s Ireland.
He revelled in the theatre and poetry of Dublin's streets, populated by characters as eccentric and remarkable as any in fiction, those who spin a yarn with acuity and wit. It was a friend who suggested Byrne join an amateur drama group, a decision that would change his life forever and launch him on an extraordinary forty-year career in film and theatre. Moving between sensual recollection of childhood in a now almost vanished Ireland and reflections on stardom in Hollywood and on Broadway, Byrne also courageously recounts his battle with addiction and the ambivalence of fame.
Walking with Ghosts is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking as well as a lyrical homage to the people and landscapes that ultimately shape our destinies.
'Make no mistake about it: this is a masterpiece . . . poetic, moving and very funny' - Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin"
"A collection of classic love poetry
Composed by many of the world’s best known and most celebrated poets—including William Blake, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Robert Frost, James Joyce, Christina Rossetti, William Butler Yeats, and others—Valentines spans not only the ages, but the full range of passionate expression of love in all its forms and stages."
"In short stories, poems, and monumental novels, James Joyce set out to discover the meaning of his nationality, simultaneously celebrating and ridiculing the history of Ireland in the brilliant style that has made him the most towering figure in the literary landscape of the early 20th century. In this audio, Dublin-born Gabriel Byrne brings to life Joyce's short stories from Dubliners, as well as selections from the brilliant A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the dream-like Chamber Music. Included here are:
• ' A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'
• ' Strings in the Earth and Air'
• ' The Twilight Turns'
• ' The Sisters'
• ' At That Hour'
• ' An Encounter'
• ' When the Shy Star Goes Forth in Heaven'
• ' Araby'
• ' Lean Out of the Window'
• ' I Would in That Sweet Bosom Be'
• ' My Love Is in a Light Attire'
• ' Who Goes Amid the Greenwood'
• ' Winds of May'
• ' Bright Cap and Streamers'
• ' Two Gallants'
• ' Bid Adieu'
• ' What Counsel Has the Hooded Moon'
• ' My Dove, My Beautiful One'
• ' Eveline'
• ' From Dewey Dreams'
• ' O Cool Is the Valley Now'
• ' Clay'
• ' Because Your Voice Was at My Side'
• ' Be Not Sad'
• ' In the Dark Pine-Wood'
• ' He Who Hath Glory Lost'
• ' Of That So Sweet Imprisonment'
• ' A Painful Case'
• ' This Heart That Flutters Near My Heart'
• ' Silently She' s Combing'
• ' Lightly Come or Lightly Go'
• ' Rain Has Fallen All the Day'
• ' Now, O Now in This Brown Land'
• ' Sleep Now, O Sleep Now'
• ' All Day I Hear the Noise of Water'
• ' The Dead'"
