Irish classics / Declan Kiberd.

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Main Author: Kiberd, Declan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • Gaelic Ireland : apocalypse now?
  • Bardic poetry : the loss of aura
  • Saving civilization : Céitinn and Ó Bruadair
  • Dying acts : Ó Rathaille and others
  • Endings and beginnings : Mac Cuarta and after
  • Jonathan Swift : a colonial outsider?
  • Nostalgia as protest : Goldsmith's 'Deserted village'
  • Radical pastoral : Goldsmith's She stoops to conquer
  • Sheridan and subversion
  • Eibhlín Dhubh Ní Chonaill : the lament for Art Ó Laoghaire
  • Brian Merriman's midnight court
  • Burke, Ireland and revolution
  • Republican self-fashioning : the journal of Wolf Tone
  • Native informants:
  • Maria Edgeworth and Castle Rackrent
  • Confronting famine : Carleton's peasantry
  • Feudalism falling : A drama in muslin
  • Love songs of Connacht
  • Anarchist attitudes : Oscar Wilde
  • George Bernard Shaw : Arms and the man
  • Somerville and Ross : The silver fox
  • Undead in the nineties : Bram Stoker and Dracula
  • Augusta Gregory's Cuchulain : the rebirth of the hero
  • Synge's Triste tropiques : the Aran Islands
  • W.B. Yeats : building amid ruins
  • Ulysses, newspapers and modernism
  • After the revolution : O'Casey and O'Flaherty
  • Gaelic absurdism : At swim-two-birds
  • The Blasket.
  • autobiographies
  • Incorrigibly plural : Louis MacNeice
  • Kate O'Brien : The ante-room
  • All the dead voices : Cré na cille
  • Underdeveloped comedy : Patrick Kavanagh
  • Anglo-Gaelic literature : Seán Ó Riordáin
  • Irish narrative : a short history.