Irish Writing

Author : Stephen Regan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 019284038X

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Irish Writing by Stephen Regan Pdf

'Can we not build up a national tradition, a national literature, which shall be none the less Irish in spirit from being English in language?' W. B. YeatsThis anthology traces the history of modern Irish literature from the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century to the early years of political independence. From Charlotte Brooke and Edmund Burke to Elizabeth Bowen and Louis MacNeice, the anthology shows how, in forging a tradition of theirown, Irish writers have continually challenged and renewed the ways in which Ireland is imagined and defined. The anthology includes a wide-ranging and generous selection of fiction, poetry, and drama. Three plays by W. B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory, and J. M. Synge are printed in their entirety, along with the opening episode of James Joyce's Ulysses. The volume also includes letters, speeches, songs,memoirs, essays, and travel writings, many of which are difficult to obtain elsewhere.'Stephen Regan's anthology vividly and valiantly presents a nation, and a national literature, coming into being.' Paul Muldoon

Author : Helena Wulff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781474244145

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Rhythms of Writing by Helena Wulff Pdf

This is the first anthropological study of writers, writing and contemporary literary culture. Drawing on the flourishing literary scene in Ireland as the basis for her research, Helena Wulff explores the social world of contemporary Irish writers, examining fiction, novels, short stories as well as journalism. Discussing writers such as John Banville, Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, Frank McCourt, Anne Enright, Deirdre Madden, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Colum McCann, David Park, and Joseph O ́Connor, Wulff reveals how the making of a writer's career is built on the 'rhythms of writing': long hours of writing in solitude alternate with public events such as book readings and media appearances. Destined to launch a new field of enquiry, Rhythms of Writing is essential reading for students and scholars in anthropology, literary studies, creative writing, cultural studies, and Irish studies.

Author : Eavan Boland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015069290867

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Irish Writers on Writing by Eavan Boland Pdf

"Drawing on sources such as the land, the Church, the past, changing politics, and literary styles, Irish writers ranging from W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Augusta Gregory to Roddy Doyle, Kate O'Brien, Colm Toibin, John Banville, and Seamus Heaney explore what it means to be a writer in Ireland"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Paul Hyland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1991-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349217557

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Irish Writing by Paul Hyland Pdf

This is a collection of original essays by international scholars which focuses on Irish writing in English from the eighteenth century to the present. The essays explore the recurrent motif of exile and the subversive potential of Irish writing in political, cultural and literary terms. Case-studies of major writers such as Swift, Joyce, and Heaney are set alongside discussions of relatively unexplored writing such as radical pamphleteering in the age of the French Revolution and the contribution of women writers to Nationalistic journalism.

Author : Tom Herron
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441105547

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Irish Writing London: Volume 2 by Tom Herron Pdf

The presence of Irish writers is almost invisible in literary studies of London. The Irish Writing London redresses the critical deficit. A range of experts on particular Irish writers reflect on the diverse experiences and impact this immigrant group has had on the city. Such sustained attention to a location and concern of Irish writing, long passed over, opens up new terrain to not only reveal but create a history of Irish-London writing. Alongside discussions of MacNeice, Boland and McGahern, the autobiography of Brendan Behan and identity of Irish-language writers in London is considered. Written by an internal array of scholars, these new essays on key figures challenge the deep-seated stereotype of what constitutes the proper domain of Irish writing, producing a study that is both culturally and critically alert and a dynamic contribution to literary criticism of the city.

Author : Sean G Ronan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004213562

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Irish Writing on Lafcadio Hearn and Japan by Sean G Ronan Pdf

This will appeal to anyone wishing to enrich their understanding of Japan, those with an interest in Hearn, Irish literary tradition and life and literature in a cross-cultural context.

Author : Anne Markey,Anne O'Connor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0716532638

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Folklore and Modern Irish Writing by Anne Markey,Anne O'Connor Pdf

Exploring the fascination of Irish folklore and storytelling for collectors, scholars, writers, and readers, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the complex relationship between oral traditions and literary practices in Ireland. The rich contributions build upon existing studies of the nature and importance of Irish folklore, acknowledging the symbiotic relationship that exists between storytellers of oral narrative on the one hand, and literary storytellers on the other. The book deepens our understanding of the creative use of oral traditions by leading Irish writers, such as W.B. Yeats, Padraig Pearse, Peig Sayers, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, and Anne Enright. Fresh perspectives are offered on the continuing evolution of folklore collection and scholarship in Ireland, while new contexts are provided for evaluating the diverse ways in which Irish writers have drawn on traditional narratives, beliefs, and practices, exemplified by the blending of folklore and individual creativity. This collection is a timely treasury for those interested in Irish writing, identity, life, and ideas. *** "Two sections immediately captured this reviewer's attention: the essays on the modernist project in creating the National Folklore Collection fascinate, and Margaret O'Neill offers tremendous insight into Anne Enright's postmodern work utilizing a psychoanalytic lens, particularly regarding the funeral tradition of keening." - Choice, July 2015, Vol. 51, No.11 [Subject: Irish Studies, Literary Criticism, Folklore]

Author : David Cairns,Shaun Richards
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0719023726

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Writing Ireland by David Cairns,Shaun Richards Pdf

"Writing Ireland is a provocative and wide-ranging examination of culture, literature and identity in nine-teenth- and twentieth-century Ireland. Moving beyond the reductionist reading of the historical moment as a backdrop to cultural production, the authors deploy contemporary theories of discourse and the constitution of the colonial subject to illuminate key texts in the cultural struggle between the colonizer and the colonized. The book opens with a consideration of the originary moment of the colonial relationsip of England and Ireland through re-reading of works by Shakespeare and Spenser. Cairns and Richards move then to the constitution of the modern discourse of Celticism in the nineteenth century. A fundamental re-reading of the period of the Literary Revival through the works of Yeats, Synge, Joyce and O'Casey locates them in a social moment illuminated by detailed considerations of poems, playwrights and polemicists such as D. P. Moran, Arthur Griffith, Patrick Pearse and Thomas MacDonagh. Writing Ireland examines the psychic, sexual and social costs of the decolonisation struggle in the society and culture of the Irish Free State and its successor. Beckett, Kavanagh and O'Faolain registered the enervation and paralysis consequent upon sustaining a repressive view of Irish identity. The book concludes in the contemporary moment, as Ireland's post-colonial culture enters crisis and writers like Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and Seamus Deane grapple with the notion of alternative identities. Writing Ireland provides students of literature, history, cultural studies and Irish studies with a lucid analysis of Ireland's colonial and post-colonial situation on which an innovative methodology transcends disciplinary divisions."--

Author : Seamus Deane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0393033538

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Field and Day Anthology of Irish Writing by Seamus Deane Pdf

Author : Toni O'Brien Johnson,David Cairns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015024951702

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Gender in Irish Writing by Toni O'Brien Johnson,David Cairns Pdf

Most innovations eventually find their way to Ireland, and so, Irish literature is at last being examined from a gender perspective. The eight essays consider works ranging from the Old Irish version of Diedre, through Dracula, Yeats, Beckett, and others, to a current television series. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Katrina Goldstone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000291018

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Irish Writers and the Thirties by Katrina Goldstone Pdf

This original study focusing on four Irish writers – Leslie Daiken, Charles Donnelly, Ewart Milne and Michael Sayers – retrieves a hitherto neglected episode of Thirties literary history which highlights the local and global aspects of Popular Front cultural movements. From interwar London to the Spanish Civil War and the USSR, the book examines the lives and work of Irish writers through their writings, their witness texts and their political activism. The relationships of these writers to George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Nancy Cunard, William Carlos Williams and other figures of cultural significance within the interwar period sheds new light on the internationalist aspects of a Leftist cultural history. The book also explores how Irish literary women on the Left defied marginalization. The impetus of the book is not merely to perform an act of literary salvage but to find new ways of re-imagining what might be said to constitute Irish literature mid-twentieth century; and to illustrate how Irish writers played a role in a transforming political moment of the twentieth century. It will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural history and literature, Irish diaspora studies, Jewish studies, and the social and literary history of the Thirties.

Author : Keith O'Sullivan,Valerie Coghlan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136825101

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Irish Children's Literature and Culture by Keith O'Sullivan,Valerie Coghlan Pdf

Irish Children’s Literature and Culture looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with major genres, forms, and issues, including the gothic, the speculative, picturebooks, ethnicity, and globalization. It contextualizes modern Irish children’s literature in relation to Irish mythology and earlier writings, as well as in relation to Irish writing for adults, thereby demonstrating the complexity of this fascinating area. What constitutes a "national literature" is rarely straightforward, and it is especially complex when discussing writing for young people in an Irish context. Until recently, there was only a slight body of work that could be classified as "Irish children’s literature" in comparison with Ireland’s contribution to adult literature in the twentieth century. The contributors to the volume examine a range of texts in relation to contemporary literary and cultural theory, and children’s literature internationally, raising provocative questions about the future of the topic. Irish Children’s Literature and Culture is essential reading for those interested in Irish literature, culture, sociology, childhood, and children’s literature. Valerie Coghlan, Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin, is a librarian and lecturer. She is a former co-editor of Bookbird: An International Journal of Children's Literature. She has published widely on Irish children's literature and co-edited several books on the topic. She is a former board member of the IRSCL, and a founder member of the Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature, Children's Books Ireland, and IBBY Ireland. Keith O’Sullivan lectures in English at the Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin. He is a founder member of the Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature, a former member of the board of directors of Children’s Books Ireland, and past chair of the Children’s Books Ireland/Bisto Book of the Year Awards. He has published on the works of Philip Pullman and Emily Brontë.

Author : B. Hollingworth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230374416

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Maria Edgeworth's Irish Writing by B. Hollingworth Pdf

Edgeworth is regarded as a pioneer in the development of the regional novel and the use of vernacular language. This study investigates her attitudes towards language and regionalism. It shows, by a detailed discussion of her major Irish texts - Castle Rackrent , Essay on Irish Bulls , Ennui , The Absentee and Ormond - how her intellectual 'Lunar' background, and her life in Ireland during the momentous years of the Union is reflected in the form and language of her writing.

Author : Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Publisher : Dublin : J. Duffy
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Authors, Irish
ISBN : UIUC:30112089244328

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The Irish Writers of the Seventeenth Century by Thomas D'Arcy McGee Pdf

Author : Gerald Dawe
Publisher : Irish Academic Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781788550284

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The Wrong Country by Gerald Dawe Pdf