Research Catalog

Title

Irish writers on writing / edited by Eavan Boland.

Publication

San Antonio, Tex. : Trinity University Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Boland, Eavan.

Description

xvii, 327 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Drawing on sources such as the land, the Church, the past, changing politics, and literary styles, Irish writers ranging from W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Augusta Gregory to Roddy Doyle, Kate O'Brien, Colm Toibin, John Banville, and Seamus Heaney explore what it means to be a writer in Ireland"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

The writer's world

Uniform Title

Writer's world (San Antonio, Tex.)

Subjects

• Ireland > In literature
• Ireland > Intellectual life
• Civilization, Modern, in literature
• English literature > Irish authors > History and criticism
• Politics and literature > Ireland > History
• Literature and history > Ireland > History
• Authors, Irish > Political and social views

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

"The Galway plains" / William Butler Yeats -- Excerpt from our Irish theatre : a chapter of autobiography / Augusta Gregory -- Excerpt from John Bull's Other island / George Bernard Shaw -- Excerpt from Hail and farewell / George Moore -- "On behalf of some Irishmen not followers of tradition" / A. E. Russell -- Excerpt from the Aran Islands / John Millington Synge -- "Thomas McDonagh" / Francis Ledwidge -- Excerpt from Autobiographies / Sean O'Casey -- "Poor scholar" / Padraic Colum -- Excerpt from A portrait of the artist as a young man / James Joyce -- Excerpt from The hidden Ireland / Daniel Corkery -- Excerpt from A penny in the clouds / Austin Clarke -- Excerpt from Black list, section H / Francis Stuart -- Excerpt from Collected prose / Patrick Kavanagh -- "A hedge schoolmaster" / Padraic Fallon -- Excerpt from Malone dies / Samuel Beckett -- Excerpt from My Ireland / Kate O'Brien -- Excerpt from "The Gaelic cult" / Sean O'Faolain -- Excerpt from "Pride in the language" / Conor Cruise O'Brien -- Excerpt from Two years / Liam O'Flaherty -- Excerpt from The mulberry tree / Elizabeth Bowen -- Excerpt from An only child / Frank O'Connor -- Excerpt from "Elizabeth of Bowen's Court" / Molly Keane -- "An Irishman in coventry" / John Hewitt -- "Dublin" / Louis MacNeice -- Excerpt from "Waama, etc." / Myles na Gopaleen -- Excerpt from "The will" / Mary Lavin -- Excerpt from Confessions of an Irish rebel / Brendan Behan -- Excerpt from The same age as the state / Maire Mhac an tSaoi -- Excerpt from The waves behind us / Benedict Kiely -- "Wellington testimonial" / Richard Murphy -- Excerpt from Self-portrait / John B. Keane -- Excerpt from Home before night / Hugh Leonard -- Excerpt from Dead as doornails / Anthony Cronin -- Excerpt from Excursions in the real world / William Trevor -- Prologue / Thomas Kinsella -- An interview with Des Hickey and Gus Smith / Brian Friel -- "A grafted tongue" / John Montague -- Introduction to Selected short plays / Jennifer Johnston -- Foreword to Mary Lavin's In a cafe / Thomas Kilroy -- "God and me" / John McGahern -- An interview by Maria Kurdi / Tom Murphy -- "Dear Mr. Joyce" / Edna O'Brien -- "Am" / Brendan Kennelly -- "In memoriam Francis Ledwidge" / Seamus Heaney -- "Pygmalion's image" / Eilean Ni Chuilleanain -- "Return" / Seamus Deane -- "In Carrowdore churchyard" / Derek Mahon -- "Wounds" / Michael Longley -- "A visit to Croom 1745" / Michael Hartnett -- "Bloomsday, bloody bloomsday" / John Banville -- "Tight-wire" / Micheal O'Siadhail -- "Desertmartin" / Tom Paulin -- "Gateposts" / Medbh McGuckian -- "Anseo" / Paul Muldoon -- Excerpt from "Anecdotes over far" / Gerald Dawe -- "Our Lady of Kylemore Abbey" / Frank McGuinness -- "Twentieth-century Irish-language poetry" / Theo Dorgan -- Excerpt from "Lady Gregory's toothbrush" / Colm Toibin -- "Leavetaking" / Greg Delanty -- "Making love outside Aras an Uachtarain" / Paul Durcan -- "Belfast confetti" / Ciaran Carson -- Excerpt from "Why I choose to write in Irish, the corpse that sits up and talks back" / Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill -- Excerpt from "Driving Mrs. Synge" / Sebastian Barry -- Excerpt from "Locus pocus" / Mary O'Malley -- "Black flags at a party meeting" / Thomas McCarthy -- "I asked him about the horses" / Rita Ann Higgins -- "Wild and perfect : teaching The playboy of the western world" / Roddy Doyle -- Introduction to As music and splendour by Kate O'Brien / Anne Enright -- "Poem for a newspaper" / Dermot Bolger -- "The statue of the virgin at Granard speaks" / Paula Meehan -- Excerpt from "Reading John McGahern" / Joseph O'Connor -- Introduction to Marina Carr : plays one / Marina Carr -- Excerpt from "Some strange vessel" / Colum McCann -- "Future perfect : talking with Irish lesbian author Emma Donoghue," by Owen Keehnen / Emma Donoghue -- "Chronicles of the human heart" / Conor McPherson.

ISBN

• 9781595340290 (alk. paper)
• 1595340297 (alk. paper)
• 9781595340320 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1595340327 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006037075

OCLC

• OCM76074210
• 76074210
• SCSB-5326838

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries