Sean O Faolain (1900-1991) was Ireland s leading social and political critic in the period following the country s independence from the United Kingdom. Since his death, scholarly opinion has alternately cast him as an arch-revisionist, a liberal nationalist, and a frustrated republican. The Selected Essays of Sean O Faolain reassesses his reputation by showing that he wrote in the tradition of post-Enlightenment European intellectuals, and that while he was a significant figure in Ireland, his work extends beyond immediate national concerns. This volume includes over fifty unabridged essays...
Sean O Faolain (1900-1991) was Ireland s leading social and political critic in the period following the country s independence from the United Kingdo...
Sean O Faolain (1900-1991) was Ireland s leading social and political critic in the period following the country s independence from the United Kingdom. Since his death, scholarly opinion has alternately cast him as an arch-revisionist, a liberal nationalist, and a frustrated republican. The Selected Essays of Sean O Faolain reassesses his reputation by showing that he wrote in the tradition of post-Enlightenment European intellectuals, and that while he was a significant figure in Ireland, his work extends beyond immediate national concerns. This volume includes over fifty unabridged essays...
Sean O Faolain (1900-1991) was Ireland s leading social and political critic in the period following the country s independence from the United Kingdo...
