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Irish classics
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Declan Kiberd
This lively literary history of Ireland from the early 17th century to the Belfast Agreement in 1998 pauses to discuss Swift, Burke, Wilde, Shaw, Synge, and others, including Irish-language poets Dáibhi Ó Braudair and Aogán Ó Rathaille, as well as the 18th-century female poet Eibhlín Dhubh Ní Chonailll and the important Gaelic poet of the 20th ...
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Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece
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Why James Joyce's great modernist masterpiece is a book that can teach ordinary people to live better lives.
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York Notes on William Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" (Longman Literature Guides)
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The Irish Writer and the World
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The Irish Writer and the World is a major new book by one of Ireland's most prominent scholars and cultural commentators. Declan Kiberd, author of the award-winning Irish Classics and Inventing Ireland, here synthesises the themes that have occupied him throughout his career as a leading critic of Irish literature and culture. Kiberd argues that ...
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Inventing Ireland
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An account of the personalities and texts--English and Irish alike--that reinvented Ireland as a self-conscious cultural entity after centuries of colonialism. Kiberd, a professor of English at University College, Dublin, is the author of "Synge and the Irish Language".
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Inventing Ireland : the literature of the modern nation
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Declan Kiberd
A critical history of modern Irish literature. Kiberd develops his story through subtle readings of such writers as Joyce, O'Casey, Beckett and Bowen. Giving a controversial interpretation of post-colonial Ireland, he then surveys more recent works, from Brian Friel to the younger Dublin writers.
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The Flowering Tree/An Crann Faoi Blath: Contemporary Irish Poetry with Verse Translations
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George Fitzmaurice, Declan Kiberd, Declon Kiberd (Editor)
This volume covers all the major Irish-language poets of the twentieth century from O Direain to Ni Dhomhnaill. These contemporary Irish poems with verse translations provide access to the thoughts, experiences and modes of expression of a separate literary tradition within Ireland. Editor Gabriel Fitzmaurice is an award-winning poet and is well ...
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Reading the Future: Irish Writers in Conversation with Mike Murphy
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Cliodhna Ni Anluain (Editor), Declan Kiberd (Introduction by)
"Who are the Irish writers working today who will be read in one hundr ed year's time?" That was the question that RTE put to a panel of scholars, editors and others. The result is a list of writers, each of whom will have a dialogue with Mike Murphy for a forthcoming television and radio series "reading the future". This work includes an incisive ...
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New Voices in Irish Criticism
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P J Matthew (Editor), Declan Kiberd (Foreword by)
Providing a snapshot of the current state of Irish studies, this collection testifies that a broad range of Irish cultural activity is now being analyzed by a diversity of scholars. Topics covered include: Politics and Revival, Theorizing the Novel, New Directions in Irish Studies, Women and Fiction, Imagining Northern Ireland, Literary Journalism ...
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1916 Easter Rebellion Handbook
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Weekly Irish Times, Declan Kiberd
The 1916 Easter Rebellion unleashed events that would lead to Irish independence in 1921. Soon after the rebellion, Ireland's leading newspaper, the Weekly Irish Times, published this handbook containing eyewitness reporting on the revolt and its aftermath, and on the Irish rebels and British forces at the center of the conflict.
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The merchant of Venice : notes
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La Invencion de Irlanda
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Declan Kiberd
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Multi-Culturalism: The View from Thetwo Irelands
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Edna Longley, Declan Kiberd, Andy Pollak (Editor)
Two of Ireland's most outspoken critics and cultural commentators put forward views on the contrasting directions in which the two societies on the island are moving
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Men and Feminism in Modern Literature
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Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Living
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Declan Kiberd
Ulysses continues to be one of the central books of the twentieth century and this is an audacious new take on it. It was never meant to be an abstruse a book for the elite, argues Declan Kiberd. It is a book for the common people, and offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life under the dreadful pressures of the modern world. ...
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Synge and the Irish language
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Declan Kiberd
J.M. Synge's first play to be produced in Dublin was rejected as "a slander on Irish womanhood", and his major drama, "The Playboy of the Western World", caused rioting inside and outside the theatre. With the energy of a powerful reticence, he told the newspapers that he "did not care a rap" for the rioters and retired for a week to bed. But he ...
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Anglo-Irish attitudes
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