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Title

Irish writing in the twentieth century : a reader / edited by David Pierce.

Publication

Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors

Pierce, David, 1947-

Description

xliv, 1351 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "Extending to over 1300 pages Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader offers a comprehensive and pleasurable introduction to modern Irish literature in a single volume. The Reader contains over 400 pieces including letters, diaries, newspaper and journal articles, songs, poems, critical essays, literary profiles, entire plays and short stories as well as extracts from novels and other longer works. Texts which until now have been out of print or difficult to locate are made easily accessible once more."
• "Arranged chronologically by decade, from the 1890s to the 1990s, each decade is divided into two different types of writing: critical/documentary and imaginative writing, and is accompanied by a headnote which situates it thematically and chronologically. The Reader is also structured for thematic study by listing all the pieces included under a series of topic headings. The wide range of material encompasses writings of well-known figures in the Irish canon and neglected writers alike. This will appeal to the general reader, but also makes Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century ideal as a core text, providing a unique focus for detailed study in a single volume."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Geschichte 1890-1999
• 1800-1999
• Literature
• Essays
• Autobiographies
• Drama
• Fiction
• Short stories
• Poetry
• Translations
• Literary collections
• Ireland > Literary collections
• Irish literature > Translations into English
• English literature > 20th century
• English literature > Irish authors

Genre/Form

• Literary collections
• Translations
• Poetry
• Short stories
• Fiction
• Drama
• Autobiographies
• Essays
• Literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [1329]-1340) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1890s : shadows, moods and arguments. from The revival of Irish literature. "The necessity of de-Anglicizing Ireland" / Douglas Hyde -- from Abhráin grádh chúige Connacht = Love songs of Connacht. "Dá d'téinnse siar" = "If I were to go west" / Douglas Hyde [translator] -- from The united Irishman. "Parnell" / Lionel Johnson -- from The Irish monthly. "The associations of scenery" / R.P. Carton -- from From the land of St. Lawrence. "The orange lilies" / Maurice F. Egan -- from Some experiences of an Irish R.M. "Lisheen races, second hand" / E. Œ. Somerville, Martin Ross -- from Ideals in Ireland. "The battle of two civilizations" / David Patrick Moran -- from Ideals in Ireland. "The literary movement in Ireland" / W.B. Yeats -- from Imagination and reveries. "Nationality or cosmopolitanism" / George Russell -- from Workers' republic. "Physical force in Irish politics" / James Connolly -- from Irish Literary Society gazette. Lecture by Mr. W.B. Yeats / Anonymous -- from The ballad of Reading gaol / Oscar Wilde.
• Irish writing in the 1900s : critical and documentary. from All Ireland review. "The great enchantment" / Standish James O'Grady -- from Ideas of good and evil. "The symbolism of poetry" / W.B. Yeats -- from Mr. Dooley in the hearts of his countrymen. "The Irishman abroad" ; "The decline of national feeling" / F.P. Dunne -- from Ideas of good and evil. "Magic" / W.B. Yeats -- from The Irish language movement. "The Irish language movement" / Francis Fahy -- from The resurrection of Hungary. "The resurrection of Hungary" / Arthur Griffith -- from The Manchester guardian. "From Galway to Gorumna" / J.M. Synge -- from Bards and saints. "The de-Davisization of Irish literature" / John Eglinton -- from Criticism and courage and other essays. "Criticism and courage" / Frederick Ryan -- from The fortnightly review. "The literary movement in Ireland" / George A. Birmingham -- from Sin, society and behaviour. "Christ before the people" / Bernard Vaughan.
• Irish writing in the 1900s : imaginative. from The green flag. "The green flag" / Arthur Conan Doyle -- from All Ireland review. "A farewell to the hills" / George Russell -- from Songs of the glens of Antrim. "Corrymeela" / Moira O'Neill -- from Cuchulain of Muirthemne. "The only son of Aoife" / Lady Gregory -- Cathleen ni Houlihan / W.B. Yeats -- from The untilled field. "Home sickness" / George Moore -- from Such is life : being certain extracts from the diary of Tom Collins / Joseph Furphy -- from New songs. "A portrait" / Padraic Colum -- from The one and the many. "The little waves of Breffny" / Eva Gore-Booth -- from Seven short plays. Spreading the news / Lady Gregory -- John Bull's other island / G.B. Shaw -- from The Egyptian pillar. "Women's rights" / Eva Gore-Booth -- The playboy of the Western world / J.M. Synge -- from The gilly of Christ. "I am the gilly of Christ" / Joseph Campbell -- from Ballygullion. "The wooden leg" / Lynn Doyle -- from Verses : sacred and profane. "A piper" ; "Glasnevin, October 9th, 1904" / Seumas O'Sullivan -- from Insurrections. "The shell" / James Stephens -- from The mountainy si`nger. "I am the mountainy singer" ; "Night, and I travelling" / Joseph Campbell.
• Irish writing in the 1910s : critical and documentary. from Journal of the Ivernian Society. "The world-wide empire of the Irish race" / Reverend P.S. Dinneen -- from English as we speak it in Ireland. "Affirming, assenting, and saluting" / Patrick Weston Joyce -- from The mearing stones. "A ballad singer" ; " The human voice" / Joseph Campbell -- from The Irish book lover. "Yeats, Synge and 'The playboy'" / J.M. Hone -- from Autobiography and life of George Tyrrell, v. 1. "1876" / George Tyrrell -- from The Freeman's Journal. "Irish book lovers" / Stephen Gwynn -- from The Irish book lover. "Irish Literary Society : coming of age celebrations" / Anonymous -- from Hail and farewell : vale / George Moore -- from Mo sgéal féin = My story. "The hunger" / Peter O'Leary -- from Charles Stewart Parnell : a memoir. My brother's personality" / John Howard Parnell -- from Literature in Ireland. "The Irish mode" / Thomas MacDonagh -- from The insurrection in Dublin. "Wednesday" / James Stephens -- from The daily news. "The Easter week executions" / George Bernard Shaw -- from Letters of James Stephens / James Stephens -- from The Irish book lover. "Reveries" and "Responsibilities" / Anonymous -- from A chronicle of jails / Darrell Figgis -- from Imagination and reveries. "The new nation" / George Russell.
• Irish writing in the 1910s : imaginative. from Deoraíocht / Pádraic Ó Conaire -- from Poems and translations. "In Kerry" ; "A question" ; "Prelude" ; "In May" ; The curse" / J.M. Synge -- from Irishry. "The weaver's family" / Joseph Campbell -- from Four Irish plays. "Mixed marriage" / St. John Ervine -- from Lyrical poems. "June" / Francis Ledwidge -- from Lyrical poems. "June" / Francis Ledwidge -- from Lyrical pieces. "The yellow bittern" / Thomas MacDonagh -- from Responsibilities. "September 1913" ; "Fallen majesty" ; "The cold heaven " / W.B. Yeats -- from Suantraide agus goltraide. "I am Ireland" / Patrick Pearse -- from Children of the dead end. "De profundis" / Patrick MacGill -- from The poetry review. "The assignation" / Lord Dunsany -- from Songs of the dead end. "Padding it" / Patrick MacGill -- from Collected works of Pádraic H. Pearse. "The wayfarer" / Patrick Pearse -- from Michael Robartes and the dancer. "Easter 1916" / W.B. Yeats -- from Songs of peace. "Thomas MacDonagh" / Francis Ledwidge -- from Earth of Cualann. "Earth of Cualann" ; "The revealer" / Joseph Campbell -- from Reincarnations. "Righteous anger" ; "O Bruadair" / James Stephens -- from The wild swans at Coole. "The wild swans at Coole" ; "In memory of Major Robert Gregory" ; "An Irish airman foresees his death" / W.B. Yeats -- from Michael Robartes and the dancer. "The second coming" / W.B. Yeats -- from The wasted island. "Catastrophe" / Eimar O'Duffy.
• Irish writing in the 1920s : critical and documentary. from Prison letters of Countess Markievicz / Constance Markievicz -- from The path to freedom. "Distinctive culture" / Michael Collins -- from Studies. "Lessons of revolution" / George Russell -- from The hidden Ireland. "The aisling" / Daniel Corkery -- from Tomorrow. "To all artists and writers" / Francis Stuart, Cecil Salkeld -- from The senate speeches of W.B. Yeats. "Speech on divorce" / W.B. Yeats -- from The Dublin review. "The coming of age of the Irish drama" / Andrew E. Malone -- from Days of fear / Frank Gallagher -- from Ireland : the rock whence I was hewn / Donn Byrne -- from An tOileánach. "Shrovetide, 1878" / Tomás Ó Criomhthain.
• Irish writing in the 1920s : imaginative. from The Irish Book Lover. "The Great Blasket : poets" / Robin Flower -- from Adam of Dublin : a romance of today. "The Abbey Theatre" / Conal O'Riordan -- from Around the boree log. "St. Patrick's Day" / John O'Brien -- from The house of success / Darrell Figgis -- from The interpreters / George Russell -- from The Manchester guardian. "The snipe" / Con O'Leary -- from The dial. "Meditations in time of civil war" / W.B. Yeats -- from Earth-bound : nine stories of Ireland. "The portrait of Roisin Dhu" / Dorothy MacArdle -- from Tomorrow. "Leda and the swan" / W.B. Yeats -- from All the sad young men. "Absolution" / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- from Apostate / Forrest Reid -- from The tent and other stories. "The tent" / Liam O'Flaherty -- from The dial. "Among school children" / W.B. Yeats -- from The dark breed. "The dark breed" / F.R. Higgins -- from The tower. "Sailing to Byzantium" / W.B. Yeats -- from The Dublin review. "Seventh gift of the holy ghost" / Thomas MacGreevy.
• Irish writing in the 1930s : critical and documentary. from The Saturday review of literature. "A letter from Dublin" / Mary Manning -- "An essay on the character in Irish literature" / George Russell -- from The letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- from The bookman. "Recent Irish poetry" / Andrew Belis [Samuel Beckett] -- from The autobiography of a Liverpool Irish slummy / Pat O'Mara -- from Current history. "Joyce and the new Irish writers" / Ernest Boyd -- from The seals / Monk Gibbon -- from The Saturday review of literature. "Boston Irish" / George C. Homans -- from Ireland today. "What I saw in Spain" / Peadar O'Donnell -- from Farewell Spain. "Adios, turismo" / Kate O'Brien -- from Scrutiny. " A letter from Ireland" / Grattan Freyer -- from The rocky road to Dublin. "So they said and felt and saw" / Seamas MacManus -- from Blue angels and whales. "Leaves from my note-book" / Robert Gibbings -- from I knock at the door. "Life is more than meat" / Sean O'Casey -- from Machtnamh seana-mhná. "A milk house in Little Island : Nance Daly and Nora Keaveney" / Peig Sayers.
• Irish writing in the 1930s : imaginative. from Guests of the nation. "Guests of the nation" / Frank O'Connor -- from The garden / L.A.G. Strong -- from The listener. "Ireland" / John Hewitt -- from The bright temptation / Austin Clarke -- from The winding stair and other poems. "Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931" ; "Byzantium" ; "Remorse for intemperate speech" ; "Crazy Jane talks with the bishop" / W.B. Yeats -- from Hello eternity! "Invitation" ; "Here" ; "Encyclopaedia" / Blanaid Salkeld -- from The yellow briar. "Jimmie's speeding" / Patrick Slater -- from BUtterfield 8 / John O'Hara -- from The young manhood of Studs Lonigan / James T. Farrell -- from Echo's bones. "Echo's bones / Samuel Beckett -- from The fox's covert. "The fox's covert" / Blanaid Salkeld -- from Three plays. "The king of Spain's daughter" / Teresa Deevy -- from Ward eight / Joseph F. Dinneen -- from All that swagger / Miles Franklin -- from Ploughman and other peoms. "Inniskeen road : July evening" / Patrick Kavanagh -- from Ireland today. "Game cock" / Michael McLaverty -- from The collected poems of Louis MacNeice. "Carrickfergus" / Louis MacNeice -- from Ireland today. "Poem" ; "The tolerance of crows" / Charles Donnelly -- from Lifer / Jim Phelan -- from Pray for the wanderer / Kate O'Brien -- from New poems. "Lapis lazuli" / W.B. Yeats -- from Night and morning. "The straying student" ; "Summer lightning" / Austin Clarke -- from Autumn journal. "Section XVI" / Louis MacNeice -- from At swim-two-birds / Flann O'Brien -- from Last peoms and plays. "Under Ben Bulben" ; "The statues" ; "News for the Delphic oracle" ; "The circus animals' desertion" ; "Politics" / W.B. Yeats -- from Horizon. "Cushendun" / Louis MacNeice.
• Irish writing in the 1940s : critical and documentary. from Jail journal. "A chiel's amang ye" / Jim Phelan -- from The listener. "An Irishman looks at England" / Frank O'Connor -- from Horizon. "Traveller's return / Louis MacNeice -- from Ireland-Atlantic gateway. "The Irish empire" / Jim Phelan -- from Horizon. "The future of Irish literature" / Frank O'Connor -- from The Irish times. "Cruiskeen lawn" / Myles Na Gopaleen -- from The tailor and Ansty / Eric Cross -- from An Ulsterwoman in England 1924-41 / Nesca A. Robb -- from Modern reading no. 6. "Irish letters and the war" / Robert Greacen -- from The bell. "Romance and realism" / Sean O'Faolain -- from All for Hecuba. "Reconnoitre" / Micheál MacLiammóir -- from As I roved out : in Belfast and districts. "Tradition and the Falls road" ; "How Belfast streets got their names" ; "The northern star" / Cathal O'Byrne -- from The Irish times. "An Irishman's diary" / Patrick Campbell -- from The listener. "The contemporary thought of Ireland" / Arland Ussher -- from Irish writing. "Irish-American literature, and why there isn't any" / John V. Kelleher -- from We follow the roads. "Drift" / Jim Phelan -- from The Irish book lover. "The worm turneth" / Colm Ó Lochlainn -- from Guerrilla days in Ireland. "Counter-terror" / Tom Barry -- from Inishfallen, fare thee well. "High road and low road" / Sean O'Casey.
• Irish writing in the 1940s : imaginative. from Letter from Ireland. "Thinking of Artolas" ; "Letter from Ireland" / Ewart Milne -- from The great hunger. "Section VII" / Patrick Kavanagh -- from The bell. "Yung Mari Li" / Bryan MacMahon -- from A tree grows in Brooklyn / Betty Smith -- from Lagan. "Once alien here" / John Hewitt -- from Rime, gentlemen, please. "For whom 'the bell' tolls" / Robert Farren -- from The listener. "Poem" / Valentin Iremonger -- from The Penguin new writing, no. 20. "Mysterious Kôr" / Elizabeth Bowen -- from Lough Derg and other poems. "Lough Derg" / Denis Devlin -- from The blossoming thorn. "Immigrant exile I, II, III" ; "Rhyme of two worlds" / John Coulter -- from Prince of darkness and other stories. "Prince of darkness" / J.F. Powers -- from An braon broghach = The road to brightcity. "The year 1912" / Máirtín Ó Cadhain.
• Irish writing in the 1950s : critical and documentary. from Envoy. "Our Irish publishers" / John Ryan -- from Envoy. "Diary" / Patrick Kavanagh -- from Rolling down the lea. "The destruction still goes on" / Oliver St. John Gogarty -- from Turf beneath my feet. "Connemara : turf and a camera" / Garry Hogg -- from The last of the Irish R.M.s. "The First World War" / Sir Christopher Lynch-Robinson -- from Envoy. "A bash in the tunnel" / Brian O'Nolan -- from Sweet Cork of thee / Robert Gibbings -- from The listener. "The background to 'Dubliners'" / Stanislaus Joyce -- from The bell. "Portrait of a minority" / Hubert Butler -- from The Dublin magazine. "Waiting for Godot" / A.J. Leventhal -- from The London magazine. "Coming to London--IV" / Elizabeth Bowen -- from The listener. "Meet, drink, and be airy" / W.R. Rodgers -- from A fretful midge / Terence De Vere White -- from Irish journal. "In a manner of speaking" / Heinrich Böll -- from Irish folk ways. "Hearth and home" / E. Estyn Evans -- from Borstal boy / Brendan Behan -- from The listener. "Writing a story : one man's way / Frank O'Connor.
• Irish writing in the 1950s : imaginative. from Home is the stranger / Edward A. McCourt -- from December bride / Sam Hanna Bell -- from Envoy. "Who killed James Joyce" / Patrick Kavanagh -- from The Dublin magazine. "Yeats's tower at Ballylee" / Padraic Fallon -- from Europa and the bull. "The net" / W.R. Rodgers -- from Eireaball spideoige. "Siollabadh" = "Syllabling" / Seán Ó Ríordáin -- from Irish writing. "My Oedipus complex" / Frank O'Connor -- from Molloy / Samuel Beckett -- From the quare fellow / Brendan Behan -- from The last hurrah / Edwin O'Connor -- from Long day's journey into night / Eugene O'Neill -- from Malone dies / Samuel Beckett -- from The Sewanee review. "The tomb of Michael Collins" / Denis Devlin -- from The finest stories of Sean O'Faolain. "Lovers of the lake" / Sean O'Faolain -- from The body's imperfection. "Residue" ; "Ripple" ; "The harbour" / L.A.G. Strong -- Endgame / Samuel Beckett -- from A touch of the poet, act one / Eugene O'Neill -- from New statesman and nation. "An Irishman in Coventry" / John Hewitt.
• Irish writing in the 1960s : critical and documentary. from Studies. "Fifty years of Irish writing" / Sean O'Faolain -- from West Briton. "Our set" / Brian Inglis -- from The lonely voice : a study of the short story / Frank O'Connor -- from My Ireland. "Dublin" / Kate O'Brien -- from The spectator. "The rough field" / John Montague -- from In excited reverie. "Passion and cunning" / Conor Cruise O'Brien -- from The Dublin magazine. "Editorial" / Rivers Carew, Timothy Brownlow -- from Ulster folklife. "A long night in the spike" / Michael J. Murphy -- from The spectator. "The reticence of 'Ulysses'" / Anthony Burgess -- from Hibernia. "The severed hand" / Roy McFadden -- from Hibernia. "Strife and the Ulster poet" / Michael Longley -- from Hibernia. "John Hume's Derry" / Seamus Heaney.
• Irish writing in the 1960s : imaginative. from The country girls / Edna O'Brien -- from The countrywoman / Paul Smith -- from The saucer of larks. "Foundry house" / Brian Friel -- from Collected poems. "On Raglan Road" ; "Canal bank walk" ; "Lines written on a seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin" / Patrick Kavanagh -- from My dark fathers. "My dark fathers" / Brendan Kennelly -- from Brosna. "Claustrophobia" / Seán Ó Ríordáin -- from Michael Joe / William Cotter Murray -- from Ireland her own. "The valley of Knockanure" / Bryan MacMahon -- from At night all cats are grey. "Go away, old man, go away" / Patrick Boyle -- from World's best science fiction 1967. "Light of other days" / Bob Shaw -- from Night-crossing. "A disused shed in Co. Wexford" / Derek Mahon -- from A bed in the sticks / Lee Dunne -- from Selected poems 1956-68. from "Nightwalker" / Thomas Kinsella -- from Strumpet City / James Plunkett -- from The hungry grass / Richard Power.
• Irish writing in the 1970s : critical and documentary. from Irish poets in English. "The divided mind" / Thomas Kinsella -- from Hibernia. "A censored decade" / John Jordan -- from The Cecil King diary 1970-74 / Cecil King -- from 'On our knees' : Ireland 1972. "Cry Irish" / Rosita Sweetman -- from Inishkillane. "Family life" / Hugh Brody -- from I am of Ireland / Richard Howard Brown -- from The unexpurgated code. "Upon being told the fatal news--" ; "Dying" / J.P. Donleavy -- from Sunday miscellany. "In Iowa : a beauty queen and a blind man" / Benedict Kiely -- from Hibernia. "Broken images" / Jack Holland -- from The Irish times. "The soft centre of Irish writing" / Francis Stuart -- from Southern review. "Being Irish together" / Denis Donoghue -- from The crane bag. "Unhappy and at home : interview with Seamus Heaney / Seamus Deane -- from The tablet. "Britain's Irish workers" / Donall MaCamhlaigh -- from A place apart / Dervla Murphy.
• Irish writing in the 1970s : imaginative. from Down all the days / Christy Brown -- from Troubles / J.G. Farrell -- from Atlantis. "Early recollections" / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin -- from Black list, section h / Francis Stuart -- from The rough field. "A lost tradition" / John Montague -- from The ballroom of romance and other stories. "The ballroom of romance" / William Trevor -- from A memory and other stories. "A memory" / Mary Lavin -- from The wood-burners. "The Irish" ; "The wood-burners" ; "By nature diffident" / Patrick Galvin -- from West strand visions. "Claudy" / James Simmons -- from North. "Punishment" ; "A constable calls" ; "Exposure" / Seamus Heaney -- from The lady and the travelling salesman. "Visiting the future" / Leo Simpson -- from Great granny Webster / Caroline Blackwood -- from Shadows on our skin / Jennifer Johnston -- from A cow in the house. "The night we rode with Sarsfield" / Benedict Kiely -- from Under stars. "The ballad of Ballymote" / Tess Gallagher -- from Later. "Theresa's friends" / Robert Creeley -- from Stand. "For poets writing in English over in Ireland" / Iain Crichton Smith -- from The year of the French. "Ballinamuck, September 10" / Thomas Flanagan -- from Field work. "Casualty" ; "The skunk" / Seamus Heaney -- from The pattern. "The gaeltacht" / Vincent Buckley -- from The Mangan inheritance / Brian Moore.
• Irish writing in the 1980s : critical and documentary. from The new statesman. "Ireland blasts back" / Mary Holland -- from Tales from two cities : travels of another sort / Dervla Murphy -- from The observer. "A tribute to Beckett on his eightieth birthday" / Derek Mahon -- from The Irish times. "Poetry in Ireland from its roots" / Peter Sirr -- from Memory Ireland. "Introduction" / Vincent Buckley -- from The edge of the city. "Interview with Van Morrison" / Desmond Hogan -- from Saintly Billy. "The Irish and the English" / Bill Naughton -- from Nationalism, colonialism and literature. "Yeats and decolonization" / Edward Said -- from Across the frontiers. "Bono : the white nigger" / Paul Hewson -- from Race and class. "Mothers, whores and villains" / Bill Rolston -- from Riding the yellow trolley car. "Tap dancing into reality" / William Kennedy -- from Object lessons. "Outside history" / Eavan Boland -- from Harp / John Gregory Dunne -- from Helsinger station and other departures. "1927 : earliest misgivings, the march of the cadavers" / Aidan Higgins.
• Irish writing in the 1980s : imaginative. from Why Brownlee left. "Ireland" / Paul Muldoon -- from A Belfast woman. "A Belfast woman" / Mary Beckett -- from High ground. "Gold watch" / John McGahern -- from Aquarius. "Unique" / Desmond Egan -- from Translations / Brian Friel -- from Good behaviour / Molly Keane -- from Kepler / John Banville -- from The flower master. "The flower master" / Medbh McGuckian -- from Quoof. "Quoof" / Paul Muldoon -- from Jumping the tracks with Angela. "Trinity College Dublin, 1983" / Paul Durcan -- from The selected Roy McFadden. "Conveyancer" / Roy McFadden -- from Edible anecdotes. "A tourist comments on the land of his forefathers" / Julie O'Callaghan -- from Cromwell. "Magic" ; "Wine" ; "A bit of a swap" ; "Therefore I smile" ; "A running battle" / Brendan Kennelly -- from Ironweed / William Kennedy -- from Cal / Bernard MacLaverty -- from Station Island / Seamus Heaney -- from Willingly. "Each bird walking" / Tess Gallagher -- from The Berlin Wall café. "Bewley's Oriental Café, Westmoreland Street" / Paul Durcan -- from A sense of wonder. "A sense of wonder" / Van Morrison -- from The streets of Ancoats / Malcolm Lynch -- from Under the influence. "My land is too green" / Eric A. Visser, Antoinette Hensey -- Conversations on a homecoming / Tom Murphy -- from the Republic of conscience. "From the republic of conscience" / Seamus Heaney -- from Missa terribilis. "The British connection" ; "Enemy encounter" ; "Crucifixus" ; Tears/a lacrimosa" / Padraic Fiacc -- from Letters to the hinterland. "Survivor" ; "The Astoria" / Roy McFadden -- from The Irish times. "Echo's bones" / Desmond Egan -- from Three plays for Ireland. "Pentecost" / Stewart Parker -- from The Irish for no. "Belfast confetti" / Ciaran Carson -- from The journey. "Mise Eire" ; "The emigrant Irish" ; "Tirade for the lyric muse" / Eavan Boland -- from An bás i dTír na nÓg. "Abair do Phaidir = "Say a prayer" / Seán Ó Tuama -- from The pogues, if I should fall from grace. "Thousands are sailing" / Philip Chevron -- from The other side / Mary Gordon -- from Ripley Bogle / Robert McLiam Wilson.
• Irish writing in the 1990s : critical and docuentary. from Cathleen to anorexia : the breakdown of Irelands / Edna Longley -- from Song for a poor boy : a Cork childhood / Patrick Galvin -- from Proved innocent . "Wandsworth" / Gerry Conlon -- from The Irish review. "Anecdotes over a jar" / Gerald Dawe -- from Krino. "Twentieth century poetry in Irish" / Seán Ó Tuama -- from Now and in time to be / Thomas Keneally -- from Journey into joy. "Irish poetry since Yeats" / Brendan Kennelly -- from Irish studies review. "Rejoinder" / Colin Graham -- from The honest Ulsterman. " The Belfast group" / Philip Hobsbaum -- from Donkey's years. "The great flood" / Aidan Higgins -- from Stones of Aran : labyrinth. "Among the thorns" / Tim Robinson -- from Critical survey. "Declining identities (lit. and fig.)" / Ailbhe Smyth -- from Éire-Ireland. "Exile, attitude, and the Sin-É-Café / Eamonn Wall -- from London review of books. "Playboys of the GPO" / Colm Tóibín -- from Poetry Ireland review. "Disappearing language" / Louis De Paor -- from Granta. "Brand leader" / Fintan O'Toole -- from The star factory. "Brickle bridge" / Ciaran Carson -- from Crazy John and the bishop. "Revisionism revisited" / Terry Eagleton -- from All souls : a family story from Southie / Michael Patrick MacDonald -- from Lost lives / David McKittrick et al.
• Irish writing in the 1990s : imaginative. from Pharaoh's daughter. "An bhean mhídhílis" = "The unfaithful wife" ; "Ceist na teangan" = "The language issue" / Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill -- from Outside history. "The Achill woman" / Eavan Boland -- from Those sailing ships of his boyhood dreams. "A well travelled woman" / Moy McCrory -- from Explaining magnetism. "Second generation" / Maura Dooley -- from Gorse fires. "Detour" ; "The butchers" / Michael Longley -- from Last poems. from "Hunger strike" / Vincent Buckley -- from high time for all the marys. "high time for all the marys" / Máire Bradshaw -- from The Bradford count. "From the Irish" / Ian Duhig -- from The Astrakhan cloak. "Caitlín" = "Cathleen" / Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill -- from The butcher boy / Patrick McCabe -- from Grub. "In the parlour" ; "Gate 49" ; "Madonna and child" / Martin Mooney -- from A staircase for all souls. "At Spanish banks" / George McWhirter -- from At the grave of Silone. "Where we live" / Harry Clifton -- from Homecoming/an bealach 'na bhaile. "Cor úr" = "A fresh dimension" / Cathal Ó Searcaigh -- from Resurrection man / Eoin McNamee -- from The mai / Marina Carr -- from The prince of the quotidian. "After two days grading papers from the seminar I taught" / Paul Muldoon -- from Walking a line. "51 Sans Souci Park" ; "A Belfast bildungsroman" / Tom Paulin -- from The steward of Christendom / Sebastian Barry -- from The ghost orchid. "Sheela-na-gig" ; "Ceasefire" / Michael Longley -- from American wake. "The fifth province" ; "On the renovation of Ellis Island" / Greg Delanty -- from The woman who walked into doors / Roddy Doyle -- from The Hudson letter. "Global village" / Derek Mahon -- from The bend for home / Dermot Healy -- from Higher purchase. "Remapping the borders" / Rita Ann Higgins -- from Reading in the dark. "Mother" / Seamus Deane -- from Eureka Street / Robert McLiam Wilson -- from Opera et cetera. "Letters from the alphabet/o" ; "Jacta est alia" ; "Tango" / Ciaran Carson -- from Another nation. "Cuchulainn" / Michael O'Loughlin -- from I could read the sky / Timothy O'Grady, Steven Pyke -- from The knife in the wave. "The lightcatchers" / Mary O'Malley -- The lonesome west / Martin McDonagh -- from The hellbox. "The printer's devil" / Greg Delanty -- from Greetings to our friends in Brazil. "The Mary Robinson years" / Paul Durcan.

ISBN

• 1859182585 (alk. paper)
• 1859182089 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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^^^00056959^

OCLC

44493412

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library