Party Pieces

Alan W Friedman

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• "Irishness" has often meant self-dramatization because Ireland is commonly represented, and has historically represented itself, as a nation of storyt... Lees meer

Standish O'Grady's Cuculain

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• Between 1878 and 1881, Standish O'Grady published a three-volume History of Ireland that simultaneously recounted the heroic ancient past of the Irish... Lees meer

Women, Press, and Politics During the Irish Revival

Karen Steele

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• Women, Press, and Politics explores the literary and historical significance of women writing for the most influential body of nationalist journalism ... Lees meer

Modern Irish Drama

Sanford Sternlicht

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• Modern Irish Drama: W. B. Yeats to Marina Carr presents a thorough introduction to the recent history of one of the greatest dramatic and theatrical t... Lees meer

The Myth of an Irish Cinema

Michael Gillespie

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• For the past seventy years the discipline of film studies has widely invoked the term national cinema. Such a concept suggests a unified identity with... Lees meer

Fine Meshwork

Dan O'Brien

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• In a 1984 interview with longtime friend Edna O'Brien, Philip Roth describes her writing as "a piece of fine meshwork, a net of perfectly observed sen... Lees meer

Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland

Adam Hanna

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland is a richly detailed exploration of how modern Irish poetry has been shaped by, and responded to, the ... Lees meer

Guilt Rules All

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• Irish crime fiction, long present on international bestseller lists, has been knocking on the door of the academy for a decade. With a wide range of s... Lees meer

Genesis of the Rising 1912-1916

Christopher M Kennedy

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies | nr. 10
• The Easter Rising of 1916 had a lasting effect upon Ireland, with many viewing it as a watershed in the history of modern Ireland and concurring with ... Lees meer

Revolutionary Damnation

Sheldon Brivic

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• In Irish fiction, the most famous example of the embrace of damnation in order to gain freedom--politically, religiously, and creatively--is Joyce's S... Lees meer

Ethos and Education in Ireland

James Norman

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies | nr. 7
• Following an outline of the origins of the concept of ethos as it is found in the writings of Aristotle and Plato, James Norman examines the Catholic ... Lees meer

Seamus Heaney

Henry Hart

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• Seamus Heaney, widely considered the most gifted living poet in Ireland and Britain, is the first Irish poet since Yeats to gain an international repu... Lees meer

Catholic Emancipations

Emer Nolan

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• This groundbreaking book explores the role 19th century Irish Catholic authors played in forging the creation of modern Irish literature. As such it o... Lees meer

J. M. Synge and Travel Writing of the Irish Revival

Giulia Bruna

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• Between the late 1890s and the early 1900s, the young Irish writer John Millington Synge journeyed across his home country, documenting his travels in... Lees meer

The Banshees

Sally Barr Ebest

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• Although much has been written about American feminism and its influence on culture and society, very little has been recorded about the key role play... Lees meer

Stories from the Tain

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• 'The Táin' (meaning 'The driving-off cows of Cooley') is a legendary Irish tale set in the first century AD. It tells of a war against Ulster by the C... Lees meer

Two Irelands

Rebecca Pelan

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• The very different histories of the North and South are reflected in their literature. While women in the Republic of Ireland have tended to write abo... Lees meer

Literary Drowning

Stephanie Pocock Boeninger

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• Literary depictions of drowning or burial at sea provide fascinating glimpses into the often-conflicted human relationship with memory. For many cultu... Lees meer

Ireland and the Global Question

Michael J O'Sullivan

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• Ireland has been rated the number one place to live because it successfully combines the most desirable elements of a modern society--the world's four... Lees meer

Respectability and Reform

Tara M McCarthy

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• In the late nineteenth century, an era in which women were expanding the influence outside the home, Irish American women carved out unique opportunit... Lees meer

Representing the National Landscape in Irish Romanticism

Julia Wright

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• Ireland is a country which has come to be defined in part by an ideology which conflates nationalism with the land. From the Irish Revival's celebrati... Lees meer

Trauma and Recovery in the Twenty-First-Century Irish Novel

Kathleen Costello-Sullivan

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• The desire to engage and confront traumatic subjects was a facet of Irish literature for much of the twentieth century. Yet, just as Irish society has... Lees meer

T.C. Murray, Dramatist

Albert Degiacomo

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• Drawing on the archives of libraries in Dublin, New York City, and Boston, Albert J. DeGiacomo assesses T. C. Murray's contribution to the Irish drama... Lees meer

Standish O'Grady's Cuculain

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• Between 1878 and 1881, Standish O'Grady published a three-volume History of Ireland that simultaneously recounted the heroic ancient past of the Irish... Lees meer