Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry

Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry
Author: Peter Mackay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2011-04-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139499947

The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of modern Irish and Scottish poetry, featuring close readings of texts within broad historical and political contextualisation. Playing on influences, crossovers, connections, disconnections and differences, the 'affinities' and 'opposites' traced in this book cross both Irish and Scottish poetry in many directions. Contributors include major scholars of the new 'archipelagic' approach, as well as leading Irish and Scottish poets providing important insights into current creative practice. Poets discussed include W. B. Yeats, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Louis MacNeice, Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn, Seamus Heaney, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala ni Dhomhnaill, Don Paterson and Kathleen Jamie. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of poetry from these islands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Gaelic in Contemporary Scotland

Gaelic in Contemporary Scotland
Author: Marsaili MacLeod
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2018-01-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1474420672

Examines the politics of female ship in relation to contemporary documentary practices

Modern Irish

Modern Irish
Author: Mícheál ósiadhail
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1991-08-29
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521425193

This comparative overview of modern Irish dialects surveys the phonology, morphology and syntext of the various dialects and contains a wealth of empirical data organized in an accessible way for the nonspecialist.

Modern Irish

Modern Irish
Author: Nancy Stenson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2019-10-28
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1315302012

Modern Irish: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to modern Irish grammar, providing a thorough overview of the language. Key features include: highly systematic coverage of all levels of structure: sound system, word formation, sentence construction and connection of sentences authentic examples and English translations which provide an accessible insight into the mechanics of the language an extensive index, numbered sections, cross-references and summary charts which provide readers with easy access to the information. Modern Irish: A Comprehensive Grammar is an essential reference source for the learner and user of Irish. It is ideal for use in schools, colleges, universities, and adult classes of all types.

Community in Modern Scottish Literature

Community in Modern Scottish Literature
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2016-04-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004317457

Community in Modern Scottish Literature is the first book to examine representations and theories of community in Scottish writing of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries across a broad range of authors and from various conceptual perspectives. The leading scholars in the field examine work in the novel, poetry, and drama, by key Scottish authors such as MacDiarmid, Kelman, and Galloway, as well as less well known writers. This includes postmodern and postcolonial readings, analysis of writing by gay and Gaelic authors, alongside theorists of community such as Nancy, Bauman, Delanty, Cohen, Blanchot, and Anderson. This book will unsettle and yet broaden traditional conceptions of community in Scotland and Scottish literature, suggesting a more plural idea of what community might be.

Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems

Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems
Author:
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1977
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780811206310

Although the number of Gaelic speakers has declined during the twentieth century, the last forty years have seen an astonishing flowering of Scottish Gaelic poetry, much of it in the modern idiom. This bilingual anthology provides a selection of the best work of poets who have contributed most to that revival--Sorely Maclean, George Campbell Hay, Derick Thomson, Iain Crichton Smith, and Donald MacAulay.

Basic Irish: A Grammar and Workbook

Basic Irish: A Grammar and Workbook
Author: Nancy Stenson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2007-12-24
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1134129262

Basic Irish: A Grammar and Workbook provides a jargon-free introduction to the most commonly used grammatical structures within the Irish language. Focusing on the repeated use of grammatical patterns, this Workbook develops an understanding of the structures presented, making the forms familiar and automatic for learners. This user-friendly workbook includes: terminology introduced and explained with multiple examples exercises in the grammatical forms introduced in the text translation exercises an exercise key.

The Making of Modern Irish History

The Making of Modern Irish History
Author: D. George Boyce
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2006-09-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134807627

This volume brings together distinguished historians of Ireland, each of whom tackles a key question, issue or event in Irish history since the eighteenth century and: * examines its historiography * assesses the context of new interpretations * considers the strengths and weaknesses of revisionist ideas * offers their own interpretation. Topics covered are not only of historical interest but, in the context of recent revisionist debates, of contemporary political significance. These original contributions take account of new evidence and perspectives, as well as up-to-date historical methodology. Their combination of synthesis and analysis represent a valuable guide to the present state of the writing of modern Irish history.

Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Modern Transformations: New Identities (from 1918)

Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Modern Transformations: New Identities (from 1918)
Author: Ian Brown
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2006-11-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0748630651

In almost a century since the First World War ended, Scotland has been transformed in many rich ways. Its literature has been an essential part of that transformation. The third volume of the History, explores the vibrancy of modern Scottish literature in all its forms and languages. Giving full credit to writing in Gaelic and by the Scottish diaspora, it brings together the best contemporary critical insights from three continents. It provides an accessible and refreshing picture of both the varieties of Scottish literatures and the kaleidoscopic versions of Scotland that mark literary developments since 1918.

Christianities in the Early Modern Celtic World

Christianities in the Early Modern Celtic World
Author: T. O' Hannrachain
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2014-07-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137306351

Ranging from devotional poetry to confessional history, across the span of competing religious traditions, this volume addresses the lived faith of diverse communities during the turmoil of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Together, they provide a textured understanding of the complexities in religious belief, practice and organization.