Literature In Irish

Author : John Ellis Caerwyn Williams,Patrick K. Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Muireann Ní Bhrolcháin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076002859598

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An Introduction to Early Irish Literature by Muireann Ní Bhrolcháin Pdf

A discussion of the rich written heritage of the Old and Middle Irish period, 600-1200. Chapters deal with such topics as druids, monks, poets, the beginnings of writing manuscripts, saga cycles, and stories about kings, kingship and sovereignty goddesses.

Author : Loreto Todd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1989-06-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781349199891

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The Language of Irish Literature by Loreto Todd Pdf

The Language of Irish Literature is the first book on the market to discuss Irish Literature in terms of the history of, and the linguistic contacts in, the island. It provides a description of the development of the varieties of English in Ireland, concentrating on the input from Irish Gaelic and Scots as well as English. It examines the history of English in Ireland; the nature of Irish and of Irish Englishes; oral traditions: songs and stories; and the three main literary genres: drama, poetry and prose.

Author : Keith O'Sullivan,Valerie Coghlan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,6 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

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’ (whatever the parameters) in comparison with Ireland’s contribution to adult literature in the twentieth century. This volume looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with all the major forms and genres. Topics include the gothic, the speculative, picturebooks, poetry, post-colonial discourse, identity and ethnicity, and globalization. Modern Irish children’s literature is also contextualized in relation to Irish mythology and earlier writings, thereby demonstrating the complexity of this fascinating area. The contributors, who are leading experts in their fields, examine a range of texts in relation to contemporary literary and cultural theory, and also in relation to writing for adults, thereby inviting a consideration of how well writing for a young audience can compare with writing for an adult one. This groundbreaking work is essential reading for all interested in Irish literature, childhood, and children’s literature.

Author : Antonio Bibbò
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Fionnuala Dillane,Naomi McAreavey,Emilie Pine
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319313887

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The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture by Fionnuala Dillane,Naomi McAreavey,Emilie Pine Pdf

This book elucidates the ways the pained and suffering body has been registered and mobilized in specifically Irish contexts across more than four hundred years of literature and culture. There is no singular approach to what pain means: the material addressed in this collection covers diverse cultural forms, from reports of battles and executions to stage and screen representations of sexual violence, produced in response to different historical circumstances in terms that confirm our understanding of how pain – whether endured or inflicted, witnessed or remediated – is culturally coded. Pain is as open to ongoing redefinition as the Ireland that features in all of the essays gathered here. This collection offers new paradigms for understanding Ireland’s literary and cultural history.

Author : Susan Cahill
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441113436

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Irish Literature in the Celtic Tiger Years 1990 to 2008 by Susan Cahill Pdf

When Irish culture and economics underwent rapid changes during the Celtic Tiger Years, Anne Enright, Colum McCann and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne began writing. Now that period of Irish history has closed, this study uncovers how their writing captured that unique historical moment. By showing how Ní Dhuibhne's novels act as considered arguments against attempts to disavow the past, how McCann's protagonists come to terms with their history and how Enright's fiction explores connections and relationships with the female body, Susan Cahill's study pinpoints common concerns for contemporary Irish writers: the relationship between the body, memory and history, between generations, and between past and present. Cahill is able to raise wider questions about Irish culture by looking specifically at how writers engage with the body. In exploring the writers' concern with embodied histories, related questions concerning gender, race, and Irishness are brought to the fore. Such interrogations of corporeality alongside history are imperative, making this a significant contribution to ongoing debates of feminist theory in Irish Studies.

Author : Helena Wulff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Kevin Barry
Publisher : Random House
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407086149

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Dark Lies the Island by Kevin Barry Pdf

Winner of the Sunday Times short story prize Winner of the Edge Hill short story prize A kiss that just won't happen. A disco at the end of the world. A teenage goth on a terror mission. And OAP kiddie-snatchers, and scouse real-ale enthusiasts, and occult weirdness in the backwoods... Dark Lies the Island is a collection of unpredictable stories about love and cruelty, crimes, desperation, and hope from the man Irvine Welsh has described as 'the most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years'. Every page is shot through with the riotous humour, sympathy and blistering language that mark Kevin Barry as a pure entertainer and a unique teller of tales.

Author : Michael Kenneally
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 086140310X

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Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature by Michael Kenneally Pdf

This is the second of four collections of essays intended to be published under the general title Studies in Contemporary Irish Literature (only two were) which are devoted to critical analysis of Irish writing since the 1950s.

Author : Charles Anderson Read
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCLA:L0098684483

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The Cabinet of Irish Literature by Charles Anderson Read Pdf

Author : Nicholas Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198857877

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Ireland, Literature, and the Coast by Nicholas Allen Pdf

Ireland is home to one of the world's great literary and artistic traditions. This book reads Irish literature and art in context of the island's coastal and maritime cultures, setting a diverse range of writing and visual art in a fluid panorama of liquid associations that connect Irish literature to an archipelago of other times and places.

Author : Malcolm Sen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108802598

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A History of Irish Literature and the Environment by Malcolm Sen Pdf

From Gaelic annals and medieval poetry to contemporary Irish literature, A History of Irish Literature and the Environment examines the connections between the Irish environment and Irish literary culture. Themes such as Ireland's island ecology, the ecological history of colonial-era plantation and deforestation, the Great Famine, cultural attitudes towards animals and towards the land, the postcolonial politics of food and energy generation, and the Covid-19 pandemic - this book shows how these factors determine not only a history of the Irish environment but also provide fresh perspectives from which to understand and analyze Irish literature. An international team of contributors provides a comprehensive analysis of Irish literature to show how the literary has always been deeply engaged with environmental questions in Ireland, a crucial new perspective in an age of climate crisis. A History of Irish Literature and the Environment reveals the socio-cultural, racial, and gendered aspects embedded in questions of the Irish environment.

Author : Máirtín Ó Cadhain
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780300220926

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Graveyard Clay by Máirtín Ó Cadhain Pdf

In critical opinion and popular polls, Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Graveyard Clay is invariably ranked the most important prose work in modern Irish. This bold new translation of his radically original Cré na Cille is the shared project of two fluent speakers of the Irish of Ó Cadhain’s native region, Liam Mac Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson. They have achieved a lofty goal: to convey Ó Cadhain’s meaning accurately and to meet his towering literary standards. Graveyard Clay is a novel of black humor, reminiscent of the work of Synge and Beckett. The story unfolds entirely in dialogue as the newly dead arrive in the graveyard, bringing news of recent local happenings to those already confined in their coffins. Avalanches of gossip, backbiting, flirting, feuds, and scandal-mongering ensue, while the absurdity of human nature becomes ever clearer. This edition of Ó Cadhain’s masterpiece is enriched with footnotes, bibliography, publication and reception history, and other materials that invite further study and deeper enjoyment of his most engaging and challenging work.

Author : Maureen O'Rourke Murphy,James MacKillop
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780815630388

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An Irish Literature Reader by Maureen O'Rourke Murphy,James MacKillop Pdf

In a volume that has become a standard text in Irish studies and serves as a course-friendly alternative to the Field Day anthology, editors Maureen O’Rourke Murphy and James MacKillop survey thirteen centuries of Irish literature, including Old Irish epic and lyric poetry, Irish folksongs, and drama. For each author the editors provide a biographical sketch, a brief discussion of how his or her selections relate to a larger body of work, and a selected bibliography. In addition, this new volume includes a larger sampling of women writers.