A History Of Irish Autobiography
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| Author | : Liam Harte |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 2018-03-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1108548458 |
A History of Irish Autobiography is the first ever critical survey of autobiographical self-representation in Ireland from its recoverable beginnings to the twenty-first century. The book draws on a wealth of original scholarship by leading experts to provide an authoritative examination of autobiographical writing in the English and Irish languages. Beginning with a comprehensive overview of autobiography theory and criticism in Ireland, the History guides the reader through seventeen centuries of Irish achievement in autobiography, a category that incorporates diverse literary forms, from religious tracts and travelogues to letters, diaries, and online journals. This ambitious book is rich in insight. Chapters are structured around key subgenres, themes, texts, and practitioners, each featuring a guide to recommended further reading. The volume's extensive coverage is complemented by a detailed chronology of Irish autobiography from the fifth century to the contemporary era, the first of its kind to be published.
| Author | : Edna O'Brien |
| Publisher | : Plume Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Authors, Irish |
| ISBN | : 9780452280502 |
"Mother Ireland" includes seven essays seamlessly woven into an autobiographical tapestry. In her lyrical, sensuous voice, O'Brien describes growing up in rural County Clare, from her days in a convent school to her first kiss to her eventual migration to England. Weaving her own personal history with the history of Ireland, she effortlessly melds local customs and ancient lore with the fascinating people and events that shaped he young life. The result is a colorful and timeless narrative that perfectly captures the heart and soul of this harshly beautiful country.
| Author | : John Bowman |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 580 |
| Release | : 2016-09-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1844882837 |
Ireland in its own words: a dazzling compendium Over the past hundred years, Ireland has undergone profound political, social and cultural changes. But one thing that has not changed is the Irish genius for observation and storytelling, invective and self-scrutiny. Ireland: The Autobiography draws upon this genius to create a portrait of a century of Irish life through the words of the people who lived it. Broadcaster and historian John Bowman has mined archives, diaries and memoirs to create a remarkably varied and delightfully readable mosaic of voices and perspectives. Ireland: The Autobiography is a brilliantly selected, wide-ranging and engrossing take on the last century of Irish life. It gives us a portrait of Ireland unlike anything we've read before. 'Absorbing and illuminating . . . John Bowman has selected a range of accounts of Irish life that do justice to what happened, what it felt like, and the personal and societal experiences alongside the "official" version' Diarmaid Ferriter, Irish Times 'A treasure' Irish Examiner 'A whistle-stop tour of the seismic, seminal and explosive events which shaped the nation as we know it' Irish Independent 'Entertaining and informative' Sunday Business Post 'A remarkably varied and delightfully readable mosaic of voices and perspectives' Women's Way 'A thoughtful and eclectic collection' Irish Mail on Sunday
| Author | : Peig Sayers |
| Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 1974-10-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780815602583 |
A reprint of the Syracuse University Press edition of 1974.
| Author | : Kerby Miller |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2001-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
A three-dimensional book featuring images and documents of Irish immigrants.
| Author | : Bryan Fanning |
| Publisher | : Merrion Press |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2014-03-03 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1908928670 |
This engaging and provocative work consists of 29 chapters and discusses over 50 books that have been instrumental in the development of Irish social and political thought since the early seventeenth century. Steering clear of traditionally canonical Irish literature, Bryan Fanning and Tom Garvin debate the significance of their chosen texts and explore the impact, reception, controversy, debates and arguments that followed publication. Fanning and Garvin present these seminal books in an impelling dialogue with one another, highlighting the manner in which individual writers informed each other s opinions at the same time as they were being amassed within the public consciousness. From Jonathan Swift s savage indignation to Flann O'Brien s disintegrative satire, this book provides a fascinating discussion of how key Irish writers affected the life of their country by upholding or tearing down those matters held close to the heart, identity and habits of the Irish nation.
| Author | : Roy Flechner |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2021-03-02 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0691217467 |
Saint Patrick Retold draws on recent research to offer a fresh assessment of Patrick's travails and achievements. This is the first biography in nearly fifty years to explore Patrick's career against the background of historical events in late antique Britain and Ireland.
| Author | : John Boyne |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2015-02-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0374713022 |
Bestselling author John Boyne's A History of Loneliness tells the riveting narrative of an honorable Irish priest who finds the church collapsing around him at a pivotal moment in its history. Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When he arrives at Clonliffe Seminary in the 1970s, it is a time in Ireland when priests are highly respected, and Odran believes that he is pledging his life to "the good." Forty years later, Odran's devotion is caught in revelations that shatter the Irish people's faith in the Catholic Church. He sees his friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed, and grows nervous of venturing out in public for fear of disapproving stares and insults. At one point, he is even arrested when he takes the hand of a young boy and leads him out of a department store looking for the boy's mother. But when a family event opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within the church, and to recognize his own complicity in their propagation, within both the institution and his own family. A novel as intimate as it is universal, A History of Loneliness is about the stories we tell ourselves to make peace with our lives. It confirms Boyne as one of the most searching storytellers of his generation.
| Author | : Richard Tillinghast |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Richard Tillinghast writes vividly and evocatively about the land and people of his adopted home, its culture, its literature, and its long, complex history.
| Author | : Dan Breen |
| Publisher | : Childrens Press |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 1981 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780947962333 |
In 1919 a group of young men barely out of their teens, poorly armed, with no money and little training, renewed the fight, begun in 1916, to drive the British out of Ireland. Dan Breen was to become the best known of them. At first they were condemed on all sides. They became outlaws and My Fight describes graphically what life was like 'on the run,' with 'an army at one's heels and a thousand pounds on one's head'. A burning belief in their cause sustained them through many a dark and bitter day and slowly support came from the people.
