Seamus Heaney s unexpected death in August 2013 brought to completion his body of work, and scholars are only now coming to understand the full scale and importance of this extraordinary career. The Nobel Prize winning poet, translator, and playwright from the North of Ireland is considered the most important Irish poet after Yeats and, at the time of his death, arguably the most famous living poet. For this reason, much of the scholarship to date on Heaney has understandably focused on his poetry. O Brien s new work, however, focuses on Heaney s essays, book chapters, and lectures as it...
Seamus Heaney s unexpected death in August 2013 brought to completion his body of work, and scholars are only now coming to understand the full scale ...
A new play from the Abbey Theatre, directed by Conor McPherson, author of The Weir
Billy and Breda haven't had a night out together in years. Tonight, Breda's lost the weight and gained a babysitter and a new outfit and is ready to sweep Billy off his feet down at Flanagans. But Billy has other plans - most of them involving Imelda Egan. Eugene O'Brien's hilarious and heartbreaking two-hander is the portrait of good times gone bad for two people who have promised to be together forever. Eden premiered on the Peacock stage at the Abbey Theatre in February 2000.
A new play from the Abbey Theatre, directed by Conor McPherson, author of The Weir
Billy and Breda haven't had a night out together in years....
Thematically arranged and clearly structured, this book explores the seminal themes in Heaney's writing: aesthetics, politics, language, identity and myth, ethics and notions of Irishness. It is the first such study of Heaney to take into account all of his writings, poetry, prose and translations in order to demonstrate that these themes are coherently developed throughout his work. The detailed reading of various aspects of Heaney's prose should prove valuable to students of his poetry, proving a depth of reference to his evolving thought processes.A central strand of this study is an...
Thematically arranged and clearly structured, this book explores the seminal themes in Heaney's writing: aesthetics, politics, language, identity and ...
"An original and innovative study of Seamus Heaney's poetry and prose, an overdue and welcome addition. . . . the first piece of groundbreaking scholarship that I have read on the subject in years. It] should convince many that Heaney has been working toward an imaginative expression of Irishness that rivals that of James Joyce."--Michael R. Molino, Southern Illinois University
"Exceptional. . . . With a mixture of insightful literary theory and first-rate scholarship, O'Brien breaks new ground. . . . This] is one of the best books I've read in a long time and deserves to be on the...
"An original and innovative study of Seamus Heaney's poetry and prose, an overdue and welcome addition. . . . the first piece of groundbreaking sch...
Concrete is an integral part of twenty-first century structural engineering and an understanding of how to analyze and design concrete structures is a vital part of your training as a structural engineer. With eurocode legislation increasingly replacing British Standards it 's also important to know how this affects the way you can work with concrete.
Newly revised to Eurocode 2, this second edition retains the original 's emphasis on qualitative understanding of the overall behaviour of concrete structures. Now expanded, with a new chapter dedicated to case studies, worked examples and...
Concrete is an integral part of twenty-first century structural engineering and an understanding of how to analyze and design concrete structures i...
"The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances" brings together sixteen of the most prominent scholars who have written on Seamus Heaney to examine the Nobel Prize winner's later poetry from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives. While a great deal of attention has been devoted to Heaney's early and middle poems-the Bog Poems in particular-this book focuses on the poetry collected in Heaney's Seeing Things (1991), The Spirit Level (1996), Electric Light (2001), District and Circle (2006), and Human Chain (2010) as a thematically connected set of writings. The starting point of the essays in...
"The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances" brings together sixteen of the most prominent scholars who have written on Seamus Heaney to examine the Nobel Pri...
This collection examines the Irish economic phenomenon of the Celtic Tiger and the financial disaster that came in its wake, from a socio-cultural perspective. It focuses on how these financial developments have been reflected in writing, film and culture in order to offer a more rounded analysis of the effects of this momentous period on people's lives.
Employing a wide range of cultural lenses, the book critiques the cultural, political and aesthetic implications of the progression from prosperity to austerity and the impact this has had on the psyche of Irish culture. An eclectic...
This collection examines the Irish economic phenomenon of the Celtic Tiger and the financial disaster that came in its wake, from a socio-cultural per...
