A gorgeous coffee table book on the scale of Welcome Books' stunning India, filled with lush photography and writings from Ireland's greatest authors.

Ireland: In Word and Image is a visual celebration of Ireland accompanied by poetry and literary excerpts from renowned authors whose works were inspired by The Emerald Isle, both past and present, among them: Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Seamus Heaney, Frank McCourt, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats. Photographs are accompanied by richly informative captions. Includes 2 double gatefold and 6 single gatefold pages.

There is much said about ""magical, mystical Ireland"", but you don't feel it until you step out of a fog bank into a forest covered by moss-coated tree trunks and edge over to a stream white with foam and red with iron from the soil. I didn't see a banshee or leprechaun, but I felt I was standing on their home turf. -- from the Introduction by Jay Adlersberg