A History of Irish Literature and the Environment

A History of Irish Literature and the Environment
Author: Malcolm Sen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 824
Release: 2022-07-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108802591

From Gaelic annals and medieval poetry to contemporary Irish literature, A History of Irish Literature and the Environment examines the connections between the Irish environment and Irish literary culture. Themes such as Ireland's island ecology, the ecological history of colonial-era plantation and deforestation, the Great Famine, cultural attitudes towards animals and towards the land, the postcolonial politics of food and energy generation, and the Covid-19 pandemic - this book shows how these factors determine not only a history of the Irish environment but also provide fresh perspectives from which to understand and analyze Irish literature. An international team of contributors provides a comprehensive analysis of Irish literature to show how the literary has always been deeply engaged with environmental questions in Ireland, a crucial new perspective in an age of climate crisis. A History of Irish Literature and the Environment reveals the socio-cultural, racial, and gendered aspects embedded in questions of the Irish environment.

The Cambridge History of Irish Literature:

The Cambridge History of Irish Literature:
Author: Margaret Kelleher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 682
Release: 2008-03-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781139055017

This comprehensive history of Irish literature is written in both its major languages, Irish and English. The twenty-eight chapters in the two-volume history provide an authoritative chronological survey of the Irish literary tradition. Spanning fifteen centuries of literary achievement, the two volumes range from the earliest medieval Latin texts to the late twentieth century. The contributors, drawn from a range of Irish, British and North American universities, are internationally renowned experts in their fields. Featuring a detailed chronology and guides to further reading for each chapter, this major project will become the key reference to Irish Literature.

A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature

A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature
Author: Heather Ingman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1010
Release: 2018-07-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108654584

This book offers the first comprehensive survey of writing by women in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present day. It covers literature in all genres, including poetry, drama, and fiction, as well as life-writing and unpublished writing, and addresses work in both English and Irish. The chapters are authored by leading experts in their field, giving readers an introduction to cutting edge research on each period and topic. Survey chapters give an essential historical overview, and are complemented by a focus on selected topics such as the short story, and key figures whose relationship to the narrative of Irish literary history is analysed and reconsidered. Demonstrating the pioneering achievements of a huge number of many hitherto neglected writers, A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature makes a critical intervention in Irish literary history.

The Cambridge History of Irish Literature

The Cambridge History of Irish Literature
Author: Margaret Kelleher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 760
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

A major event in Irish studies, this is the first comprehensive history of Irish literature over the past fifteen centuries.

A History of Irish Women's Poetry

A History of Irish Women's Poetry
Author: Ailbhe Darcy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 853
Release: 2021-07-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108802702

A History of Irish Women's Poetry is a ground-breaking and comprehensive account of Irish women's poetry from earliest times to the present day. It reads Irish women's poetry through many prisms – mythology, gender, history, the nation – and most importantly, close readings of the poetry itself. It covers major figures, such as Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, as well as neglected figures from the past. Writing in both English and Irish is considered, and close attention paid to the many different contexts in which Irish women's poetry has been produced and received, from the anonymous work of the early medieval period, through the bardic age, the coterie poets of Anglo-Ireland, the nationalist balladeers of Young Ireland, the Irish Literary Revival, and the advent of modernity. As capacious as it is diverse, this book is an essential contribution to scholarship in the field.

A History of Irish Working-Class Writing

A History of Irish Working-Class Writing
Author: Michael Pierse
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2018
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107149681

"Michael Pierse is Lecturer in Irish literature at Queen's University Belfast. His research mainly explores the writing and cultural production of Irish working-class life. Over recent years this work has expanded into new multidisciplinary themes and international contexts, including the study of festivals, digital methodologies in public humanities and theatre-as-research practices. Michael has contributed to a range of national and international publications, is the author of Writing Ireland's Working Class: Dublin after O'Casey (2011), and has been awarded several Arts and Humanities Research Council awards and the Vice Chancellor's Award at Queen's"--

The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 2, 1550–1730

The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 2, 1550–1730
Author: Jane Ohlmeyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1349
Release: 2018-04-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108651054

This volume offers fresh perspectives on the political, military, religious, social, cultural, intellectual, economic, and environmental history of early modern Ireland and situates these discussions in global and comparative contexts. The opening chapters focus on 'Politics' and 'Religion and War' and offer a chronological narrative, informed by the re-interpretation of new archives. The remaining chapters are more thematic, with chapters on 'Society', 'Culture', and 'Economy and Environment', and often respond to wider methodologies and historiographical debates. Interdisciplinary cross-pollination - between, on the one hand, history and, on the other, disciplines like anthropology, archaeology, geography, computer science, literature and gender and environmental studies - informs many of the chapters. The volume offers a range of new departures by a generation of scholars who explain in a refreshing and accessible manner how and why people acted as they did in the transformative and tumultuous years between 1550 and 1730.

A History of Irish Modernism

A History of Irish Modernism
Author: Gregory Castle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2019-01-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107176727

This book attests to the unique development of modernism in Ireland - driven by political as well as artistic concerns.

A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790–1829

A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790–1829
Author: Claire Connolly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2011-11-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139503227

Claire Connolly offers a cultural history of the Irish novel in the period between the radical decade of the 1790s and the gaining of Catholic Emancipation in 1829. These decades saw the emergence of a group of talented Irish writers who developed and advanced such innovative forms as the national tale and the historical novel: fictions that took Ireland as their topic and setting and which often imagined its history via domestic plots that addressed wider issues of dispossession and inheritance. Their openness to contemporary politics, as well as to recent historiography, antiquarian scholarship, poetry, song, plays and memoirs, produced a series of notable fictions; marked most of all by their ability to fashion from these resources a new vocabulary of cultural identity. This book extends and enriches the current understanding of Irish Romanticism, blending sympathetic textual analysis of the fiction with careful historical contextualization.