The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing

The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing PDF Author: Seamus Deane
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814799062
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1548

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The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing

The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing PDF Author: Seamus Deane
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814799062
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1548

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Field and Day Anthology of Irish Writing

Field and Day Anthology of Irish Writing PDF Author: Seamus Deane
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ISBN: 9780393033533
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Languages : en
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The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing

The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing PDF Author: Seamus Deane
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814799079
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1756

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Small World

Small World PDF Author: Seamus Deane
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108840868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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A survey of 200 years of Irish writing, this book offers analytic accounts of key Irish works and authors.

Reading in the Dark

Reading in the Dark PDF Author: Seamus Deane
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375700234
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize Winner of the Irish Times Fiction Award and International Award "A swift and masterful transformation of family griefs and political violence into something at once rhapsodic and heartbreaking. If Issac Babel had been born in Derry, he might have written this sudden, brilliant book." --Seamus Heaney Hugely acclaimed in Great Britain, where it was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and short-listed for the Booker, Seamus Deane's first novel is a mesmerizing story of childhood set against the violence of Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. The boy narrator grows up haunted by a truth he both wants and does not want to discover. The matter: a deadly betrayal, unspoken and unspeakable, born of political enmity. As the boy listens through the silence that surrounds him, the truth spreads like a stain until it engulfs him and his family. And as he listens, and watches, the world of legend--the stone fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly--reveals its transfixing reality. Meanwhile the real world of adulthood unfolds its secrets like a collection of folktales: the dead sister walking again; the lost uncle, Eddie, present on every page; the family house "as cunning and articulate as a labyrinth, closely designed, with someone sobbing at the heart of it." Seamus Deane has created a luminous tale about how childhood fear turns into fantasy and fantasy turns into fact. Breathtakingly sad but vibrant and unforgettable, Reading in the Dark is one of the finest books about growing up--in Ireland or anywhere--that has ever been written.

The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets

The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets PDF Author: Gerald Dawe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108420354
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 473

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A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.

Field Day and the Translation of Irish Identities

Field Day and the Translation of Irish Identities PDF Author: A. O'Malley
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230229693
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book examines Field Day's cultural intervention into the Northern Irish 'Troubles' through individual readings of the fourteen plays produced by the enterprise. It argues that at the heart of this project were performances, in a variety of different forms and registers, of an ethics of translation that disrupted notions of Irish identity.

A Century of Irish Drama

A Century of Irish Drama PDF Author: Stephen Watt
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253214195
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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This book traces a significant shift in 20th century Irish theatre from the largely national plays produced in Dublin to a more expansive international art form. Confirmed by the recent success outside of Ireland of the "third wave" of Irish playwrights writing in the 1990s, the new Irish drama has encouraged critics to reconsider both the early national theatre and the dramatic tradition it fostered. On the occasion of the centenary of the first professional production of the Irish Literary Theatre, the contributors to this volume investigate contemporary Irish drama's aesthetic features and socio-political commitments and re-read the plays produced earlier in the century. Although these essayists cover a wide range of topics, from the productions and objectives of the Abbey Theatre's first rivals to mid-century theatre festivals, to plays about the "Troubles" in the North, they all reassess the oppositions so commonplace in critical discussions of Irish drama: nationalism vs. internationalism, high vs. low culture, urban experience vs. rural or peasant life. A Century of Irish Drama includes essays on such figures as W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness, Christina Read, Martin McDonagh, and many more. Stephen Watt is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington, and author of Postmodern/Drama: Reading the Contemporary Stage, Joyce, O'Casey, and the Irish Popular Theatre, and essays on Irish and Irish-American culture. He has also written extensively on higher education, most recently Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education (with Cary Nelson). Eileen M. Morgan is a lecturer in English and Irish Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is currently working on Sean O'Faolain's biographies of De Valera and on Edna O'Brien's 1990s trilogy, and is preparing a book-length study on the influence of radio in Ireland. Shakir Mustafa is a Visiting Instructor in the English department at Indiana University. His work has appeared in such journals as New Hibernia Review and The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, and he is now translating Arabic short stories into English. Drama and Performance Studies--Timothy Wiles, general editor

Mere Irish & Fíor-ghael

Mere Irish & Fíor-ghael PDF Author: Joseph Theodoor Leerssen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027221987
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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The aim of this investigation is to reconsider the cultural confrontation between England and Ireland from a new methodological perspective, and to trace how this confrontation resulted in a particular notion, literary as well as political, of Irish nationality.

Autobiography of a Child

Autobiography of a Child PDF Author: Hannah Lynch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autobiographical fiction, Irish (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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This powerful first-person narrative follows the story of a young Irish girl from her earliest memory to around twelve years of age, tracing the shaping of "the Dublin Angela" into "the English Angela" and ultimately Angela of Lysterby, "the Irish rebel." This tale is told from the perspective of her older self, now "a hopeless wanderer" with youth and optimism behind her.