Early Irish Literature

Author : Muireann Ní Bhrolcháin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Irish literature
ISBN : UOM:39076002859598

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An Introduction to Early Irish Literature by Muireann Ní Bhrolcháin Pdf

This book discusses the rich written heritage of the Old and Middle Irish period, 600-1200, and is suitable for students of medieval Ireland as well as the general reader who wants to learn about the stories, poetry and themes of early Irish literature. Early chapters deal with the poets, druids, monks, the beginnings of writing, manuscripts as well as an introduction to each of the saga cycles. These sagas contain the stories of heroes such as Cu Chulainn and Finn mac Cumaill as well as kings, such as Cormac mac Airt. Further chapters focus on the poets and their poetry, the heroes visiting the Otherworld, the births and deaths of famous heroes as well as stories about kings, kingship and sovereignty goddesses. Included also is a bibliography and a comprehensive index including personal and place names.

Author : Myles Dillon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Epic literature, Irish
ISBN : OCLC:289586359

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Early Irish Literature by Myles Dillon Pdf

Author : Maria Tymoczko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134958672

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Translation in a Postcolonial Context by Maria Tymoczko Pdf

This ground-breaking analysis of the cultural trajectory of England's first colony constitutes a major contribution to postcolonial studies, offering a template relevant to most cultures emerging from colonialism. At the same time, these Irish case studies become the means of interrogating contemporary theories of translation. Moving authoritatively between literary theory and linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies, anthropology and systems theory, the author provides a model for a much needed integrated approach to translation theory and practice. In the process, the work of a number of important literary translators is scrutinized, including such eminent and disparate figures as Standishn O'Grady, Augusta Gregory and Thomas Kinsella. The interdependence of the Irish translation movement and the work of the great 20th century writers of Ireland - including Yeats and Joyce - becomes clear, expressed for example in the symbiotic relationship that marks their approach to Irish formalism. Translation in a Postcolonial Context is essential reading for anyone interested in translation theory and practice, postcolonial studies, and Irish literature during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Author : J. P. Mallory
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500773352

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In Search of the Irish Dreamtime: Archaeology and Early Irish Literature by J. P. Mallory Pdf

Ireland's oldest traditions excavated via archaeological, genetic, and linguistic research, culminating in atruly groundbreaking publication Following his account of Irish origins drawing on archaeology, genetics, and linguistics, J. P. Mallory returns to the subject to investigate what he calls the Irish Dreamtime: the native Irish retelling of their own origins, as related by medieval manuscripts. He explores the historical backbone of this version of the earliest history of Ireland, which places apparently mythological events on a concrete timeline of invasions, colonization, and royal reigns that extends even further back in time than the history of classical Greece. The juxtaposition of traditional Dreamtime tales and scientific facts expands on what we already know about the way of life in Iron Age Ireland. By comparing the world depicted in the earliest Irish literary tradition with the archaeological evidence available on the ground, Mallory explores Ireland’s rich mythological tradition and tests its claims to represent reality.

Author : Jonathan M. Wooding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015051293192

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The Otherworld Voyage in Early Irish Literature by Jonathan M. Wooding Pdf

With The Otherworld in Irish Literature and History, Jonathan Wooding presents a major collection of essays by some of the best-known academics in Ireland, Britain and America today.

Author : Myles Dillon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Civilization, Celtic
ISBN : PSU:000032273335

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Early Irish Literature by Myles Dillon Pdf

'An incandescent vision, a wildness of imagination, sensiblity to sound and colour and form ... human passion, love, sorrow and anger.' Thus Myles Dillon describes the enduring qualities of the literature of early Ireland. In Early Irish Literature, he summarizes the historical, mythological and poetic legacy of ancient and medieval Ireland, spanning more than a millennium, selecting the most important tales and poems of early Ireland and rendering them in a vibrant English translation. This book is a valuable introduction to this area for student an general reader alike.

Author : Douglas Hyde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Irish literature
ISBN : PRNC:32101067193928

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The Story of Early Gaelic Literature by Douglas Hyde Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1981-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780141934815

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Early Irish Myths and Sagas by Anonim Pdf

First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle freely with the gods. From the vivid adventures of the great Celtic hero Cu Chulaind, to the stunning 'Exile of the Sons of Uisliu' - a tale of treachery, honour and romance - these are masterpieces of passion and vitality, and form the foundation for the Irish literary tradition: a mythic legacy that was a powerful influence on the work of Yeats, Synge and Joyce.

Author : John Ellis Caerwyn Williams,Patrick K. Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Civilization, Celtic, in literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106010547302

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The Irish Literary Tradition by John Ellis Caerwyn Williams,Patrick K. Ford Pdf

Provides a history of literature in the Irish language from the fifth century to the twentieth. This book traces the development of manuscripts from the Latin records made by monastic scribes and the vernacular works of ecclesiastics and lay scholars. It describes the fall of the native order and offers appraisals of the work of Irish writers.

Author : Roisin McLaughlin
Publisher : Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Satire, Irish
ISBN : 1855002078

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Early Irish Satire by Roisin McLaughlin Pdf

Author : Tomas O. Cathasaigh
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780268088576

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Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge by Tomas O. Cathasaigh Pdf

Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga offers thirty-one previously published essays by Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, which together constitute a magisterial survey of early Irish narrative literature in the vernacular. Ó Cathasaigh has been called “the father of early Irish literary criticism,” with writings among the most influential in the field. He pioneered the analysis of the classic early Irish tales as literary texts, a breakthrough at a time when they were valued mainly as repositories of grammatical forms, historical data, and mythological debris. All four of the Mythological, Ulster, King, and Finn Cycles are represented here in readings of richness, complexity, and sophistication, supported by absolute philological rigor and yet easy for the non-specialist to follow. The book covers key terms, important characters, recurring themes, rhetorical strategies, and the narrative logic of this literature. It also surveys the work of the many others whose explorations were launched by Ó Cathasaigh's first encounters with the literature. As the most authoritative single volume on the essential texts and themes of early Irish saga, this collection will be an indispensable resource for established scholars, and an ideal introduction for newcomers to one of the richest and most under-studied literatures of medieval Europe.

Author : Antonio Bibbò
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030835866

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Irish Literature in Italy in the Era of the World Wars by Antonio Bibbò Pdf

This book addresses both the dissemination and increased understanding of the specificity of Irish literature in Italy during the first half of the twentieth century. This period was a crucial time of nation-building for both countries. Antonio Bibbò illustrates the various images of Ireland that circulated in Italy, focusing on political and cultural discourses and examines the laborious formation of an Irish literary canon in Italy. The center of this analysis relies on books and articles on Irish politics, culture, and literature produced in Italy, including pamplets, anthologies, literary histories, and propaganda; translations of texts by Irish writers; and archival material produced by writers, publishers, and cultural and political institutions. Bibbò argues that the construction of different and often conflicting ideas of Ireland in Italy as well as the wavering understanding of the distinctiveness of Irish culture, substantially affected the Italian responses to Irish writers and their presence within the Italian publishing field. This book contributes to the discussion on transnational aspects of canon formation, reception studies, and Italian cultural studies.

Author : Eleanor Knott,Gerard Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Irish literature
ISBN : OCLC:17520860

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Early Irish Literature by Eleanor Knott,Gerard Murphy Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1179479048

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Early Irish Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Julie A. Eckerle,Naomi McAreavey
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780803299979

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Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland by Julie A. Eckerle,Naomi McAreavey Pdf

Women’s Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland provides an original perspective on both new and familiar texts in this first critical collection to focus on seventeenth-century women’s life writing in a specifically Irish context. By shifting the focus away from England—even though many of these writers would have identified themselves as English—and making Ireland and Irishness the focus of their essays, the contributors resituate women’s narratives in a powerful and revealing landscape. This volume addresses a range of genres, from letters to book marginalia, and a number of different women, from now-canonical life writers such as Mary Rich and Ann Fanshawe to far less familiar figures such as Eliza Blennerhassett and the correspondents and supplicants of William King, archbishop of Dublin. The writings of the Boyle sisters and the Duchess of Ormonde—women from the two most important families in seventeenth-century Ireland—also receive a thorough analysis. These innovative and nuanced scholarly considerations of the powerful influence of Ireland on these writers’ construction of self, provide fresh, illuminating insights into both their writing and their broader cultural context.