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Author | : Derek Hand |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2011-03-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139500635 |
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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.
Author | : Derek Hand |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2014-10-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107674271 |
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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.
Author | : Neil Hegarty |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2012-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1448140390 |
Download Story of Ireland Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The history of Ireland has traditionally focused on the localized struggles of religious conflict, territoriality and the fight for Home Rule. But from the early Catholic missions into Europe to the embrace of the euro, the real story of Ireland has played out on the larger international stage. Story of Ireland presents this new take on Irish history, challenging the narrative that has been told for generations and drawing fresh conclusions about the way the Irish have lived. Revisiting the major turning points in Irish history, Neil Hegarty re-examines the accepted stories, challenging long-held myths and looking not only at the dynamics of what happened in Ireland, but also at the role of events abroad. How did Europe's 16th century religious wars inform the incredible violence inflicted on the Irish by the Elizabethans? What was the impact of the French and American revolutions on the Irish nationalist movement? What were the consequences of Ireland's policy of neutrality during the Second World War? Story of Ireland sets out to answer these questions and more, rejecting the introspection that has often characterized Irish history. Accompanying a landmark series coproduced by the BBC and RTE, and with an introduction by series presenter, Fergal Keane, Story of Ireland is an epic account of Ireland's history for an entire new generation.
Author | : Claire Connolly |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2011-11-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139503227 |
Download A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790–1829 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Claire Connolly offers a cultural history of the Irish novel in the period between the radical decade of the 1790s and the gaining of Catholic Emancipation in 1829. These decades saw the emergence of a group of talented Irish writers who developed and advanced such innovative forms as the national tale and the historical novel: fictions that took Ireland as their topic and setting and which often imagined its history via domestic plots that addressed wider issues of dispossession and inheritance. Their openness to contemporary politics, as well as to recent historiography, antiquarian scholarship, poetry, song, plays and memoirs, produced a series of notable fictions; marked most of all by their ability to fashion from these resources a new vocabulary of cultural identity. This book extends and enriches the current understanding of Irish Romanticism, blending sympathetic textual analysis of the fiction with careful historical contextualization.
Author | : Seumas MacManus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 762 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Aidan Doyle (Lecturer in Irish) |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0198724764 |
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This book traces the history of the Irish language from the time of the Norman invasion to independence. Aidan Doyle addresses both the shifting position of Irish in society and the important internal linguistic changes that have taken place, and combines political, cultural, and linguistic history.
Author | : Pádraic Whyte |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2011-05-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 144383095X |
Download Irish Childhoods Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
While much has been written about Irish culture’s apparent obsession with the past and with representing childhood, few critics have explored in detail the position of children’s fiction within such discourses. This book serves to redress these imbalances, illuminating both the manner in which children’s texts engage with complex cultural discourses in contemporary Ireland and the significant contribution that children’s novels and films can make to broader debates concerning Irish identity at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Through close analysis of specific books and films published or produced since 1990, Irish Childhoods offers an insight into contrasting approaches to the representation of Irish history and childhood in recent children’s fiction. Each chapter interrogates the unique manner in which an author or filmmaker engages with twentieth century Irish history from a contemporary perspective, and reveals that constructions of childhood in Irish children’s fiction are often used to explore aspects of Ireland’s past and present.
Author | : Colin Murphy |
Publisher | : Feckin' Collection |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : 9781847170699 |
Download The Feckin' Book of Irish History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Forget the boring stuff you learned in school. Here's the REAL skinny on Irish history.
Author | : Frank Delaney |
Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2013-02-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0812979753 |
Download The Last Storyteller Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“Riveting . . . Readers will quickly warm to [Frank] Delaney’s vividly described Ireland of the 1950s, its fully realized inhabitants, and the dynamic political and personal relationships that make for a remarkable story.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “If we’re to live good lives, we have to tell ourselves our own story. In a good way.” So says Ben MacCarthy’s beloved mentor, and it is this fateful advice that will guide Ben through the tumultuous events of Ireland in 1956. The national mood is downtrodden; poverty, corruption, and an armed rebellion rattle the countryside; and although Ben wants no part of the insurrection, he unknowingly falls in with an IRA sympathizer. Yet despite his perilous circumstances, all he can think about is finding his former wife and true love, Venetia Kelly, who after many years has returned to Ireland with her brutish new husband, a popular stage performer. Determined not to lose Venetia again, Ben calls upon every bit of his passion and courage to win her back, while finally reconciling his violent past with his hopes for a bright future. Brimming with fascinating Irish history, daring intrigue, and the drama of legendary love, The Last Storyteller is an unforgettable novel as richly textured and inspiring as Ireland itself. “A colorful, leisurely tale, with dark moments as well as humor and grace.”—The Star-Ledger “A magical tale [that] weaves in a jackpot of Irish myths.”—Bookreporter “Character-rich and dramatic.”—Library Journal
Author | : Neil Hegarty |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2020-02-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 000837919X |
Download Irish History: People, places and events that built Ireland (Collins Little Books) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From mesolithic Ireland to the peace process, this little book covers all of the main historical and cultural events, places and figures in Irish history. A must for all lovers of Ireland and the Irish.