Author: Egan O'RahillyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Dánta Aodhagáin Uí Rathaille. The poems of Egan O'Rahilly. To which are added miscellaneous pieces illustrating their subjects and language
Author: Egan O'RahillyDánta Aodhagáin Uí Rathaille
Author: Egan O'RahillyPublisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Divided Kingdom
Author: S. J. ConnollyPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191562432
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
For Ireland the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were an era marked by war, economic transformation, and the making and remaking of identities. By the 1630s the era of wars of conquest seemed firmly in the past. But the British civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century fractured both Protestant and Catholic Ireland along lines defined by different combinations of religious and political allegiance. Later, after 1688, Ireland became the battlefield for what was otherwise Britain's bloodless (and so Glorious) Revolution. The eighteenth century, by contrast, was a period of peace, permitting Ireland to emerge, first as a dynamic actor in the growing Atlantic economy, then as the breadbasket for industrialising Britain. But at the end of the century, against a background of international revolution, new forms of religious and political conflict came together to produce another period of multi-sided conflict. The Act of Union, hastily introduced in the aftermath of civil war, ensured that Ireland entered the nineteenth century still divided, but no longer a kingdom.
Dánta Aoḋagáin Uí Raṫaille
Author: Egan O'RahillyBy Heart
Author: Philip BradyPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1572336323
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
With a perfect balance of playfulness, humor, and apology, Philip Brady calls himself a bard. But he explains that, before the title became shrouded in mystery, bards were simply teachers, unknown and poor, who gave literal voice to poems through recitations. Woven throughout these twenty essays is Brady's resistance to the academic expectations and settings of poetic instruction, enabling him to elicit the most authentic and surprising responses from a range of voices. He is motivated by the possibility of poetry expressed in the grittiest of places and takes readers from the rust belts of Ohio, to the far-flung pubs of Ireland, to Zairian classrooms with few books and fidgety lightbulbs. Most of all, he believes that, while bad poetry is a fact of life, good poetry should be studied and learned by heart. Brady doesn't resort to dissecting poems here, though poems-his own and those of many of his masters, from Yeats to Tu Fu-do appear. Instead, the poetic language of his observations seems to fulfill a greater purpose: "Voiced, the poem is transfigured from a printed glyph to sensory language: ephemeral, but with a tensile strength derived from the collective memory that births it. Critics may feel differently, but what matters to a poem is not how many times it is reprinted, but how deeply it penetrates the heart." These essays are meditations grounded in the author's life as a poet, teacher, publisher, musician, traveler, and organizer. In one, readers encounter non-traditional students who attend class after work and whose lives are already shaped by burden. Brady recognizes the tension between reading poetry as an academic exercise and reading it for its power to endow all people with a broader sense of the self that is informed by both the dead and the living. He celebrates the challenges that his students bring to the classroom by forging headlong into discussions that other instructors would cringe at-as when a student declares that he doesn't like reading old poetry but instead likes greeting-card poems. Brady masterfully turns this potentially deflating moment into one that is both validating and deeply inspiring-for student and reader.
The Poem-book of the Gael
Author: Eleanor HullPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Irish Poems from Cromwell to the Famine
Author: Joan KeefePublisher: 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.
Dánta Aodhagáin Uí Rathaille
Author: Egan O'RahillyThe Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets
Author: Gerald DawePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108420354
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.
The Road Round Ireland
Author: Padraic ColumPublisher: New York, Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description