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Author | : Patrick J. Mahoney |
Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1574418351 |
Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier is a bilingual compilation of stories by Eoin Ua Cathail, an Irish emigrant, based loosely on his experiences in the West and Midwest. The author draws on the popular American Dime Novel genre throughout to offer unique reflections on nineteenth-century American life. As a member of a government mule train accompanying the U.S. military during the Plains Indian Wars, Ua Cathail depicts fierce encounters with Native American tribes, while also subtly commenting on the hypocrisy of many famine-era Irish immigrants who failed to recognize the parallels between their own plight and that of dispossessed Native peoples. These views are further challenged by his stories set in the upper Midwest. His writings are marked by the eccentricities and bloated claims characteristic of much American Western literature of the time, while also offering valuable transnational insights into Irish myth, history, and the Gaelic Revival movement. This bilingual volume, with facing Irish-English pages, marks the first publication of Ua Cathail’s work in both the original Irish and in translation. It also includes a foreword from historian Richard White, a comprehensive introduction by Mahoney, and a host of previously unpublished historical images. “Ua Cathail’s Irish-language tales anticipate Twain and Hemingway in a multicultural world of settlers, shysters, and simple idealists still confronted by the challenge of Native Americans.”—Declan Kiberd, author of Inventing Ireland: The Literature of a Modern Nation
Author | : Charles Fanning |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 2021-10-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813184061 |
In this study, Charles Fanning has written the first general account of the origins and development of a literary tradition among American writers of Irish birth or background who have explored the Irish immigrant or ethnic experience in works of fiction. The result is a portrait of the evolving fictional self-consciousness of an immigrant group over a span of 250 years. Fanning traces the roots of Irish-American writing back to the eighteenth century and carries it forward through the traumatic years of the Famine to the present time with an intensely productive period in the twentieth century beginning with James T. Farrell. Later writers treated in depth include Edwin O'Connor, Elizabeth Cullinan, Maureen Howard, and William Kennedy. Along the way he places in the historical record many all but forgotten writers, including the prolific Mary Ann Sadlier. The Irish Voice in America is not only a highly readable contribution to American literary history but also a valuable reference to many writers and their works. For this second edition, Fanning has added a chapter that covers the fiction of the past decade. He argues that contemporary writers continue to draw on Ireland as a source and are important chroniclers of the modern American experience.
Author | : Paul McVeigh |
Publisher | : Unbound Publishing |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2021-07-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 180018025X |
We read because we want to experience lives and emotions beyond our own, to learn, to see with others’ eyes. The 32 is a celebration of working-class voices from the island of Ireland. Edited by award-winning novelist Paul McVeigh, this intimate and illuminating collection features memoir and essays from established and emerging Irish voices including Kevin Barry, Dermot Bolger, Roddy Doyle, Lisa McInerney, Lyra McKee and many more. Too often, working-class writers find that the hurdles they come up against are higher and harder to leap over than those faced by writers from more affluent backgrounds. As in Common People – an anthology of working-class writers edited by Kit de Waal and the inspiration behind this collection – The 32 sees writers who have made that leap reach back to give a helping hand to those coming up behind. Without these working-class voices, without the vital reflection of real lives or role models for working-class readers and writers, literature will be poorer. We will all be poorer.
Author | : Niall O'Dowd |
Publisher | : The O'Brien Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2010-03-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1847172202 |
How a typical Irish emigrant rose to a position of influence at the highest levels of US and Irish politics. A remarkable firsthand account of an Irish emigrant who began as a part-time footballer and house-painter and became a journalist, author, founder and publisher of two newspapers, a magazine and website, as well as a leading advocate for immigration reform for the 'illegal' Irish in the United States. He played a pivotal role in the Northern Ireland peace process, securing a US visa for Gerry Adams in 1994 and acting as intermediary between the White House and Sinn Féin during a critical time in the peace negotiations. Niall O'Dowd has been described as: 'the authentic voice of the Irish in America, who has more knowledge of this community than almost anyone else alive,' by Jim Dwyer, New York Times and Pulitzer Prize winner.
Author | : Gerry Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Northern Ireland |
ISBN | : 9781568332024 |
In 1992, Gerry Adams was invited by Niall O'Dowd to write a weekly column for the Irish Voice.
Author | : Gerry Adams |
Publisher | : Roberts Rinehart Publishers |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
In 1992, while unable to get an American Visa, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was invited to write a series of columns for the Irish Voice newspaper and the Irish American magazine. They began as reports from Belfast but soon developed into a chronicle of the emerging peace process. An Irish Voice seamlessly collects many of these important articles under one cover to provide a first-hand account of the modern Republican movement and the ongoing peace process in Ireland.
Author | : Gerard Reid |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001-09-30 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : 9780716527442 |
This compilation brings together a selection of speeches, sermons and addresses from some of Ireland's greatest statesmen and women over the last 1,000 years. They are arranged in chronological order, with an introduction giving the background to each one.
Author | : Andrew Higgins Wyndham |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780813925448 |
Accompanying DVD is a videorecording of the television program produced by Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Paul Wagner Productions in association with Radio Telefís Éireann, and originally broadcast in 2004.
Author | : Paul Meier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : English language |
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Publisher | : Barefoot Books |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781902283975 |
And so it was that when he met Aoife, a stranger to those parts, he was struck by her beauty and blind to her evil.