Author: Joan Keefe
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838718872
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Joan Keefe here presents her new versions of poems that come from the time when the great tradition of Irish poetry, as it had been known for a thousand years, was being brought to an end. It combines many of the characteristics of classical Irish poetry, roughened but kept vigorous by the common imagination.
Irish Poems from Cromwell to the Famine
Author: Joan Keefe
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838718872
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Joan Keefe here presents her new versions of poems that come from the time when the great tradition of Irish poetry, as it had been known for a thousand years, was being brought to an end. It combines many of the characteristics of classical Irish poetry, roughened but kept vigorous by the common imagination.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838718872
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Joan Keefe here presents her new versions of poems that come from the time when the great tradition of Irish poetry, as it had been known for a thousand years, was being brought to an end. It combines many of the characteristics of classical Irish poetry, roughened but kept vigorous by the common imagination.
An Irish Literature Reader
Author: Maureen O'Rourke Murphy
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815630463
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815630463
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
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.
Irish Literature
Author: Maureen O'Rourke Murphy
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815624059
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815624059
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Irish Books in Print & Leabhair Gaeilge i GCló
A Short History of Irish Literature
Author: Seamus Deane
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Seamus Deane, one of Ireland's most important critics, assesses here the place of literature in "a colonial or neo-colonial culture like ours, where the naming of the territory has always been ... a politically charged act". The force of Deane's A Short History of Irish Literature derives precisely from his naming of the territory. With insight, erudition, and a razor-keen style, he locates Irish writers within the island's traumatic history. His aim is to show how literature has been inescapably allied with historical interpretation and with political allegiance.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Seamus Deane, one of Ireland's most important critics, assesses here the place of literature in "a colonial or neo-colonial culture like ours, where the naming of the territory has always been ... a politically charged act". The force of Deane's A Short History of Irish Literature derives precisely from his naming of the territory. With insight, erudition, and a razor-keen style, he locates Irish writers within the island's traumatic history. His aim is to show how literature has been inescapably allied with historical interpretation and with political allegiance.
Irish Poetry: Politics, History, Negotiation
Author: S. Matthews
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349252905
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The award of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature to Seamus Heaney recognized not only the aesthetic achievement of his work, but also its political urgency. Here Steven Matthews presents a genealogy of Irish poetry which centres upon Heaney's recent preoccupation with the relations between poetry, politics and history. Writing from the perspective of Irish critical responses to the poetry, he discusses a wide range of work from John Hewitt through Heaney himself to Paul Muldoon. All of these poets have been inspired directly or indirectly by the situation in the North of Ireland. Placing the poems in their historical context, the author also analyses how these poets have reacted to the influence of W.B. Yeats. This important book offers a new approach to Irish poetry, linking it for the first time to the crucial political and historical events which lie at its centre.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349252905
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The award of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature to Seamus Heaney recognized not only the aesthetic achievement of his work, but also its political urgency. Here Steven Matthews presents a genealogy of Irish poetry which centres upon Heaney's recent preoccupation with the relations between poetry, politics and history. Writing from the perspective of Irish critical responses to the poetry, he discusses a wide range of work from John Hewitt through Heaney himself to Paul Muldoon. All of these poets have been inspired directly or indirectly by the situation in the North of Ireland. Placing the poems in their historical context, the author also analyses how these poets have reacted to the influence of W.B. Yeats. This important book offers a new approach to Irish poetry, linking it for the first time to the crucial political and historical events which lie at its centre.
Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature
Author: Michael Kenneally
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780861403103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780861403103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
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.
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry
Author: Matthew Campbell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113982676X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
In the last fifty years Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature, writing about love and sexuality, violence and history, country and city. This book, first published in 2003, provides an introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, and also introduces the reader to significant precursors like Louis MacNeice or Patrick Kavanagh, and vital contemporaries and successors: among others, Thomas Kinsella, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Paul Muldoon. Readers will find discussions of Irish poetry from the traditional to the modernist, written in Irish as well as English, from both North and South. This Companion provides cultural and historical background to contemporary Irish poetry in the contexts of modern Ireland but also in the broad currents of modern world literature. It includes a chronology and guide to further reading and will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113982676X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
In the last fifty years Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature, writing about love and sexuality, violence and history, country and city. This book, first published in 2003, provides an introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, and also introduces the reader to significant precursors like Louis MacNeice or Patrick Kavanagh, and vital contemporaries and successors: among others, Thomas Kinsella, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Paul Muldoon. Readers will find discussions of Irish poetry from the traditional to the modernist, written in Irish as well as English, from both North and South. This Companion provides cultural and historical background to contemporary Irish poetry in the contexts of modern Ireland but also in the broad currents of modern world literature. It includes a chronology and guide to further reading and will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.
Historical Ballad Poetry of Ireland
Feast and Famine
Author: Leslie Clarkson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191543675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This book traces the history of food and famine in Ireland from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. It looks at what people ate and drank, and how this changed over time. The authors explore the economic and social forces which lay behind these changes as well as the more personal motives of taste, preference, and acceptability. They analyze the reasons why the potato became a major component of the diet for so many people during the eighteenth century as well as the diets of the middling and upper classes. This is not, however, simply a social history of food but it is a nutritional one as well, and the authors go on to explore the connection between eating, health, and disease. They look at the relationship between the supply of food and the growth of the population and then finally, and unavoidably in any history of the Irish and food, the issue of famine, examining first its likelihood and then its dreadful reality when it actually occurred.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191543675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This book traces the history of food and famine in Ireland from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. It looks at what people ate and drank, and how this changed over time. The authors explore the economic and social forces which lay behind these changes as well as the more personal motives of taste, preference, and acceptability. They analyze the reasons why the potato became a major component of the diet for so many people during the eighteenth century as well as the diets of the middling and upper classes. This is not, however, simply a social history of food but it is a nutritional one as well, and the authors go on to explore the connection between eating, health, and disease. They look at the relationship between the supply of food and the growth of the population and then finally, and unavoidably in any history of the Irish and food, the issue of famine, examining first its likelihood and then its dreadful reality when it actually occurred.