Research Catalog

Title

After Ireland : writing the nation from Beckett to the present / Declan Kiberd.

Author

Kiberd, Declan

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2018]
• ©2017

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Subject

• English literature > Irish authors > 20th century > History and criticism
• Irish literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• National characteristics, Irish, in literature
• National liberation movements in literature
• Nationalism in literature

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Literary criticism.
• Literary criticism
• Critiques littéraires.

Note

• "First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Head of Zeus Ltd, First Floor East, 5-8 Hardwick Street, London ECIR 3RG"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-528) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : After Ireland? -- Beckett's inner exile -- Interchapter : A neutral Ireland? -- 'Gaeldom is over' : The bell -- A talking corpse? : Sáirséal agus Dill -- A parrot in Ringsend : Máire Mhac an tSaoi -- Growing up absurd : Edna O'Brien and The country girls -- Frank O'Connor : a mammy's boy -- Interchapter : Secularization -- Richard Power and The hungry grass -- Interchapter : Emigration -- Emigration once again : Friel's Philadelphia -- Interchapter : Northern troubles -- Seamus Heaney : the death of ritual and the ritual of death -- Interchapter : Europeanization -- The art of science : Banville's Doctor Copernicus -- The double vision of Michael Hartnett -- Brian Friel's Faith healer -- Theatre as opera : The Gigli concert -- Frank McGuinness and Observe the sons -- Derek Mahon's lost worlds -- Interchapter : Irish language -- Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill : Pharaoh's daughter -- Interchapter : Women's movement -- Eavan Boland : Outside history -- John McGahern's Amongst women -- Between first and third world : Friel's Lughnasa -- Roddy Doyle : Paddy Clarke ha ha ha -- Interchapter : Peace comes dropping slow -- Seamus Deane : Reading in the dark -- Reading Éilis Ní Dhuibhne -- Making history : Joseph O'Connor -- Fallen nobility : McGahern's Rising sun -- Conor McPherson : The seafarer -- Claire Keegan : Foster -- Kate Thompson and The new policeman -- Conclusion. Going global?

ISBN

• 9780674976566
• 0674976568

LCCN

• 2017050680
• 40028319214

OCLC

• 1012656704
• SCSB-10818243

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library