The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, 1800-2000
The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, 1800-2000

Author: Justin Quinn

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-04-07

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780521609258

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Over the last two centuries, Ireland has produced some of the world's most outstanding and best-loved poets, from Thomas Moore to W. B. Yeats to Seamus Heaney. This introduction not only provides an essential overview of the history and development of poetry in Ireland, but also offers new approaches to aspects of the field. Justin Quinn argues that the language issues of Irish poetry have been misconceived and re-examines the divide between Gaelic and Anglophone poetry. Quinn suggests an alternative to both nationalist and revisionist interpretations and fundamentally challenges existing ideas of Irish poetry. This lucid book offers a rich contextual background against which to read the individual works, and pays close attention to the major poems and poets. Readers and students of Irish poetry will learn much from Quinn's sharp and critically acute account.

The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets
The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets

Author: Gerald Dawe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 1108420354

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A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry

Author: Fran Brearton

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2012-10-25

Total Pages: 744

ISBN-13: 0199561249

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry consists of 40 essays by leading scholars and new researchers in the field. Beginning with W.B.Yeats, the figure who towers over the century's poetry, it includes chapters on the major poets to have emerged in Ireland over the last 100 years.

The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism
The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism

Author: Joseph N. Cleary

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-08-11

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1107031419

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This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to Irish modernism, offering readers an accessible overview of key writers and artists.

Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry
Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry

Author: Peter Mackay

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-04-14

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1139499947

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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.

Poetics of the Local
Poetics of the Local

Author: Shirley Lau Wong

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2023-07-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1438493835

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Poetics of the Local considers contemporary Irish poetry in light of transnational forces of globalization and financialization, showing how these conditions have shaped poetic innovation in Ireland from the 1960s to the present. The book is organized around different sites caught in the growing pains of a rapidly globalizing Ireland—from the "ghost estates," or housing projects abandoned after the economic boom of the 1990s, to the urban "regeneration" of Belfast after the Troubles, to the transformation of Dublin into a hub for creative economy programs like the UNESCO City of Literature. In readings of works by Thomas Kinsella, Paula Meehan, Seamus Heaney, John Montague, Ciaran Carson, Leontia Flynn, Alan Gillis, Sinéad Morrissey, and Paul Muldoon, Shirley Lau Wong argues that the enduring centrality of place in Irish poetry should be seen not as a hangover of nostalgic nationalism but rather as an exploration of the material and emplaced effects of the seemingly faraway processes of global capitalism.

The Writings of Padraic Colum
The Writings of Padraic Colum

Author: Pádraic Whyte

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-10

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1040028152

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This co-edited collection breaks new ground by bringing together several leading scholars to explore the substantial body of work produced by Padraic Colum (1881–1972) who was a poet, a novelist, a dramatist, a biographer, a writer of fiction for adults and children, and a collector of folklore. The awards, honours, and distinction conferred upon him and his work throughout his life and career, as well as retrospectively, give an indication of the significant and wide-ranging appeal and influence of Colum not only as an Irish writer and storyteller but also as a literary figure entrusted with the myths and legends of other cultures and nations. Despite such achievements, he has received comparatively little critical or scholarly attention to date. This volume showcases the richness of Colum’s work by subjecting it to a rigorous literary and theoretical examination and is the first combined and detailed analysis of both his children’s and adult texts.

Literary Coteries and the Irish Women Writers' Club (1933-1958)
Literary Coteries and the Irish Women Writers' Club (1933-1958)

Author: Deirdre F. Brady

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1789622468

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This book is an original account of coterie culture in twentieth-century Ireland and the networks and connections which fostered women's writing. It paints a vivid portrait of the inspirational women involved in the Women Writers' Club, showcasing their influence and achievements in literature and their political campaigning for intellectual and creative freedom.

The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney
The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney

Author: Bernard O'Donoghue

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0521838827

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An up-to-date overview of Heaney's career thus far, with detailed readings of all his major publications.