Author: George A. BirminghamPublisher:
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Category : Irish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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General John Regan
Author: George A. BirminghamPublisher:
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Category : Irish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
General John Regan. [A novel.].
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Author: George A. Birmingham (pseud.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Myth and the Irish State
Author: John M. ReganPublisher: Irish Academic Press
ISBN: 0716532549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
When we read a history we believe ourselves to be reading cold, hard, facts of the events that took place and how they occurred. But there is no real, truthful way to know the approach our historian has taken with the historical sources. This book deals with the uncertainty in writing history in the context of Irish history in particular. Regan argues in this book that the notion of elision, simply ignoring unhelpful evidence, threatens Irish history today. Regan believes that some historians have ignored unhelpful facts that perhaps do not further their point or perhaps contradict them altogether. Each chapter focuses on a period of Irish history that Regan believes to be inconsistent or incomplete in its facts. He asks the controversial questions about the period of history such as why do some historians deny or marginalise the British threat of war and re-conquest in 1922?, why do so many Irish historians describe Michael Collins as a constitutionalist or a democrat when the evidence argues otherwise? Was the Irish Civil War really fought between democrats defending the state, against dictators attempting its overthrow? Did the new state briefly experience a military-dictatorship under Collins in 1922? Thinking historically is not about learning history or accepting the past as it is presented to us it is, as Regan argues in his thought-provoking work, about developing the critical skills to interpret history for ourselves.
General John Regan
Author: George A. BirminghamPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1776580338
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
James Owen Hannay was an Irish clergyman who wrote dozens of novels, stories and plays under the pen name "George A. Birmingham." General John Regan is a sharp satirical play about a charming huckster who spearheads a campaign to honor a purported local hero by erecting a statue in his honor in the small Irish village of his birth. The drama hit too close to home when it was first staged in Ireland -- locals rioted to protest the perceived slight against the Irish people.
The Bellman
Author: A History of the Irish Novel
Author: Derek HandPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139500635
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Derek Hand's A History of the Irish Novel is a major work of criticism on some of the greatest and most globally recognisable writers of the novel form. Writers such as Laurence Sterne, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett and John McGahern have demonstrated the extraordinary intellectual range, thematic complexity and stylistic innovation of Irish fiction. Derek Hand provides a remarkably detailed picture of the Irish novel's emergence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows the story of the genre is the story of Ireland's troubled relationship to modernisation. The first critical synthesis of the Irish novel from the seventeenth century to the present day, this is a major book for the field, and the first to thematically, theoretically and contextually chart its development. It is an essential, entertaining and highly original guide to the history of the Irish novel.
A Century of the English Novel
Author: Cornelius WeygandtPublisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
The Interior
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Issues for Jan 12, 1888-Jan. 1889 include monthly "Magazine supplement".
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