Ireland Through the Looking Glass explores O'Nolan's broad-ranging humor (as novelist and newspaper columnist) in its cultural contexts. What emerges from this fresh perspective is an original portrait of him as a writer whose work was at once in conflict with, and wholly indebted tom, the charged cultural politics of the new state.
This is the first book to thoroughly combine both aspects of his literary career, illuminating how his episodic novels relate to the journalism which he wrote throughout his life. It demonstrates how his recurrent preoccupation with the...
Ireland Through the Looking Glass explores O'Nolan's broad-ranging humor (as novelist and newspaper columnist) in its cultural contexts. What e...