This study provides a detailed, accurate, objective and lively account of the modern IRA and Sinn Fein movements from the first stirrings of the contemporary armed struggle through to the Good Friday Agreement and after."
This study provides a detailed, accurate, objective and lively account of the modern IRA and Sinn Fein movements from the first stirrings of the conte...
Mixing personal and family experiences with an idiosyncratic social history of Irish immigration, this book draws on Mathieu's travels to Ireland and her interviews with the Irish in rural Roscrea and environs and in New York City to survey the landscape of emigration in Ireland and in the US.
Mixing personal and family experiences with an idiosyncratic social history of Irish immigration, this book draws on Mathieu's travels to Ireland and ...
This work provides an overview of Irish theatre, read in the light of Ireland's self-definition. Mediating between history and its relations with politics and art, it attempts to do justice to the enabling and mirroring preoccupations of Irish drama.
This work provides an overview of Irish theatre, read in the light of Ireland's self-definition. Mediating between history and its relations with poli...
In this anaysis of Roddy Doyle's first five novels, Caramine White argues that while Doyle is undoubtedly one of the most popular contemporary novelists, he also needs to be seen as a serious snd gifted writer.
In this anaysis of Roddy Doyle's first five novels, Caramine White argues that while Doyle is undoubtedly one of the most popular contemporary novelis...
The selected plays show the extraordinary variety of Irish drama today as well as the brilliance of Irish playwrights, both seasoned veterans and those beginning to build reputations on the stages of the world's premier national theatre, The Abbey. The first play by award-winning playwright Michael Harding, Sour Grapes, explores the taboos of seminary life including paedophilia and homosexuality. Thomas Kilroy's The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde tells the historical drama of the marriage of Constance to Oscar Wilde and recounts the tragedy that was her marriage and life. Interlocking lives...
The selected plays show the extraordinary variety of Irish drama today as well as the brilliance of Irish playwrights, both seasoned veterans and thos...
This work is a portrait of the life of the elder Yeats and his family, showing that J.B. Yeats was as worthy of his sons as they were of their father.
This work is a portrait of the life of the elder Yeats and his family, showing that J.B. Yeats was as worthy of his sons as they were of their father....
In this study of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the author considers the important psychological and cultural issues arising in the novel. He argues that although Portrait may be a classic text of literary modernism, it is a fundamentally antimodernist work.
In this study of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the author considers the important psychological and cultural issues arising in the no...
For William Butler Yeats, poetic license sometimes meant misquoting writers or misspelling Irish words. This reference guide illuminates the poetry of the Irish writer.
For William Butler Yeats, poetic license sometimes meant misquoting writers or misspelling Irish words. This reference guide illuminates the poetry of...