Author: Publisher: Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Representative Irish Tales
Author: Publisher: Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Irish Folk Tales
Author: Henry GlassiePublisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307828247
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Here are 125 magnificent folktales collected from anthologies and journals published from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with tales of the ancient times and continuing through the arrival of the saints in Ireland in the fifth century, the periods of war and family, the Literary Revival championed by William Butler Yeats, and the contemporary era, these robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic stories of kings, ghosts, fairies, treasures, enchanted nature, and witchcraft are set in cities, villages, fields, and forests from the wild western coast to the modern streets of Dublin and Belfast. Edited by Henry Glassie With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Representative Irish Tales
Author: Representative Irish Tales
Author: W. B. YeatsPublisher: House of Stratus Limited
ISBN: 9780755116720
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
First published in 1891, W B Yeats' anthology of nineteenth-century Irish fiction is of great significance in his early career. Yeats' selection is tailored to illustrate the ways that the principal Irish novelists represented Irish character; in particular how well they had depicted the Irish peasantry and their lives. His introductory commentary and editorial notes provide a fascinating perspective on this relatively unknown but influential phase of his work, while his observations on individual authors emphasises the idiosyncrasies of the novelists' lives as well as the qualities of their fiction.
Representative Irish Tales
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher: Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press
ISBN: 9780391339873
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Representative Irish Tales
Author: Representative Irish Tales
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
The Names Upon the Harp, Irish Myth and Legend
Author: Marie HeaneyPublisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590680523
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A sampling of some of the most famous Irish legends.
The Irish Story : Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland
Author: Oxford R. F. Foster Professor of Irish History and a Fellow Hertford CollegePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198036078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Roy Foster is one of the leaders of the iconoclastic generation of Irish historians. In this opinionated, entertaining book he examines how the Irish have written, understood, used, and misused their history over the past century. Foster argues that, over the centuries, Irish experience itself has been turned into story. He examines how and why the key moments of Ireland's past--the 1798 Rising, the Famine, the Celtic Revival, Easter 1916, the Troubles--have been worked into narratives, drawing on Ireland's powerful oral culture, on elements of myth, folklore, ghost stories and romance. The result of this constant reinterpretation is a shifting "Story of Ireland," complete with plot, drama, suspense, and revelation. Varied, surprising, and funny, the interlinked essays in The Irish Story examine the stories that people tell each other in Ireland and why. Foster provides an unsparing view of the way Irish history is manipulated for political ends and that Irish poverty and oppression is sentimentalized and packaged. He offers incisive readings of writers from Standish O'Grady to Trollope and Bowen; dissects the Irish government's commemoration of the 1798 uprising; and bitingly critiques the memoirs of Gerry Adams and Frank McCourt. Fittingly, as the acclaimed biographer of Yeats, Foster explores the poet's complex understanding of the Irish story--"the mystery play of devils and angels which we call our national history"--and warns of the dangers of turning Ireland into a historical theme park. The Irish Story will be hailed by some, attacked by others, but for all who care about Irish history and literature, it will be essential reading.
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. VI: Prefaces and Introductions
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439106231
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Prefaces and Introductions, Volume VI of The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, brings together for the first time thirty-two introductions by Yeats to the works of such literary greats as William Blake, J.M. Synge, Lady Gregory, Oscar Wilde, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Lionel Johnson, and Rabindranath Tagore. The introductions, which span the Nobel laureate’s entire career, reflect the broad reach of Yeats’s literary and cultural interests. Always insightful and often charming, Prefaces and Introductions reveals the breadth of Yeats’s talent as essayist, critic, folklorist, and raconteur.