Tragedy And Irish Literature
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Author | : R. McDonald |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2001-12-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 140391365X |
In Tragedy and Irish Literature, McDonald considers the culture of suffering, loss, and guilt in the work of J.M. Synge, Sean O'Casey and Samuel Beckett. He applies external ideas of tragedy to the three dramatists and also discerns particular sorts of tragedy within their own work. While alert to the real differences between the three writers, the book also traces common themes and preoccupations. It identifies a conflict between form and content, between heightened language and debased reality as the hallmark of Irish tragedy.
Author | : Tim Pat Coogan |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2016-07-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1474605087 |
The Easter Rising began at 12 noon on 24 April, 1916 and lasted for six short but bloody days, resulting in the deaths of innocent civilians, the destruction of many parts of Dublin and the true beginning of Irish independence. The 1916 Rising was born out of the Conservative and Unionist parties' illegal defiance of the democratically expressed wish of the Irish electorate for Home Rule; and of confusion, mishap and disorganisation, compounded by a split within the Volunteer leadership. Tim Pat Coogan introduces the major players, themes and outcomes of a drama that would profoundly affect twentieth-century Irish history. Not only is this the story of a turning point in Ireland's struggle for freedom, but also a testament to the men and women of courage and conviction who were prepared to give their lives for what they believed was right.
Author | : Declan Kiberd |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 555 |
Release | : 2018-01-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0674976568 |
Ireland is suffering from a crisis of authority. Catholic Church scandals, political corruption, and economic collapse have shaken the Irish people’s faith in their institutions and thrown the nation’s struggle for independence into question. While Declan Kiberd explores how political failures and economic globalization have eroded Irish sovereignty, he also sees a way out of this crisis. After Ireland surveys thirty works by modern writers that speak to worrisome trends in Irish life and yet also imagine a renewed, more plural and open nation. After Dublin burned in 1916, Samuel Beckett feared “the birth of a nation might also seal its doom.” In Waiting for Godot and a range of powerful works by other writers, Kiberd traces the development of an early warning system in Irish literature that portended social, cultural, and political decline. Edna O’Brien, Frank O’Connor, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Hartnett lamented the loss of the Irish language, Gaelic tradition, and rural life. Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Eavan Boland grappled with institutional corruption and the end of traditional Catholicism. These themes, though bleak, led to audacious experimentation, exemplified in the plays of Brian Friel and Tom Murphy and the novels of John Banville. Their achievements embody the defiance and resourcefulness of Ireland’s founding spirit—and a strange kind of hope. After Ireland places these writers and others at the center of Ireland’s ongoing fight for independence. In their diagnoses of Ireland’s troubles, Irish artists preserve and extend a humane culture, planting the seeds of a sound moral economy.
Author | : Marianne McDonald |
Publisher | : Methuen Drama |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2002-06-27 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
This collection of provocative essays reveals how some of the great Irish poets and dramatists of the past and present, have drawn on Greek myths and used these stories to bring new insights on the world in which we now live.
Author | : Tim Pat Coogan |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2012-11-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137045175 |
During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you can walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this grand, sweeping narrative, Ireland''s best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, gives a fresh and comprehensive account of one of the darkest chapters in world history, arguing that Britain was in large part responsible for the extent of the national tragedy, and in fact engineered the food shortage in one of the earliest cases of ethnic cleansing. So strong was anti-Irish sentiment in the mainland that the English parliament referred to the famine as "God's lesson." Drawing on recently uncovered sources, and with the sharp eye of a seasoned historian, Coogan delivers fresh insights into the famine's causes, recounts its unspeakable events, and delves into the legacy of the "famine mentality" that followed immigrants across the Atlantic to the shores of the United States and had lasting effects on the population left behind. This is a broad, magisterial history of a tragedy that shook the nineteenth century and still impacts the worldwide Irish diaspora of nearly 80 million people today.
Author | : Sarah Gilmartin |
Publisher | : Pushkin Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2023-03-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 191159057X |
A remarkable Irish family saga about the messiness of modern family life—a major debut from a blazing new talent that’s already an international sensation “Sarah Gilmartin gives us terrific, complex characters and strong themes, in prose that is charged with insight.” —Anne Enright “The search is off -- here is our next read. Here is an expert writer.” —Meg Mason A riveting, beautifully written, and poignant coming-of-age story about the heartrending complications of sibling relationships and the trauma of family secrets, perfect for fans of Kate Atkinson, Maggie O’Farrell, and Anne Enright. Kate has taught herself to be careful, to be meticulous. To mark the anniversary of a death in the family, she plans a dinner party - from the fancy table settings to the perfect Baked Alaska waiting in the freezer. Yet by the end of the night, old tensions have flared, the guests have fled, and Kate is spinning out of control. But all we have is ourselves, her father once said, all we have is family. Set between the 1990s and the present day, from a farmhouse in Carlow to Trinity College, Dublin, Dinner Party is a dark, sharply observed debut told with sharp, elegant humour that thrillingly unravels into family secrets and tragedy.
Author | : Dermot Healy |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2011-05-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1446475433 |
Ollie Wing is barely surviving. Back home in Sligo, he collects trolleys in a supermarket car park and lives in a run-down house with a group of art students. He can't escape what has happened in London and is tormented by old fears and regrets. Finally, he decides to confront his demons.
Author | : John McCourt |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 019872960X |
Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland explores Trollope's relationship with Ireland, offering an in-depth exploration of his time in Ireland, contextualising his Irish novels and short stories and examining his ongoing interest in the country, its people, and its relationship with Britain.
Author | : Melvyn Bragg |
Publisher | : Sceptre |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2013-05-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1444762362 |
By 'quite simply one of the best writers we have' (Sunday Telegraph), a profoundly moving story spanning three generations. 'It is a gem' Independent 'I loved it' Pat Barker Reaching from late 19th-century Cumbria to the present, this elegiac novel celebrates two spirited women: Grace, a farm labourer's daughter who fatefully followed her heart, and Mary, the child she was forced to give up. Unsung heroines according to Mary's son who, as his elderly mother's mind begins to fail, lovingly recreates their lives and the vanished country of their pasts, linking three generations in a chain of enduring love, loss and courage.
Author | : Anne Enright |
Publisher | : Granta Books (Uk) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 9781847080974 |
The Man Booker prize-winning author's selection of the best Irish short stories of the last sixty years, following Richard Ford's bestselling Granta Book of the American Short Story.