Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939

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Stephen Regan
Oxford University Press, 2004 - 549 páginas
'Can we not build up a national tradition, a national literature, which shall be none the less Irish in spirit from being English in language?' W. B. YeatsThis anthology traces the history of modern Irish literature from the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century to the early years of political independence. From Charlotte Brooke and Edmund Burke to Elizabeth Bowen and Louis MacNeice, the anthology shows how, in forging a tradition of theirown, Irish writers have continually challenged and renewed the ways in which Ireland is imagined and defined. The anthology includes a wide-ranging and generous selection of fiction, poetry, and drama. Three plays by W. B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory, and J. M. Synge are printed in their entirety, along with the opening episode of James Joyce's Ulysses. The volume also includes letters, speeches, songs,memoirs, essays, and travel writings, many of which are difficult to obtain elsewhere.'Stephen Regan's anthology vividly and valiantly presents a nation, and a national literature, coming into being.' Paul Muldoon

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Índice

Introduction
xiii
THOMAS DAVIS
xxvi
THOMAS MACDONAGH
xxx
Note on the Anthology
xl
Chronology of Key Events
lvii
POLITICAL WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
3
WOLFE TONE
13
DANIEL OCONNELL
23
EARNÁN OMALLEY
246
SHORT FICTION
252
SEAN OFAOLÁIN
260
FRANK OCONNOR
273
FICTION
282
JAMES JOYCE
293
ELIZABETH BOWEN
314
SAMUEL BECKETT
320

JAMES FINTAN LALOR
35
REFLECTIONS ON IRISH CULTURE
43
JOHN GAMBLE
57
FICTION
79
SYDNEY OWENSON LADY MORGAN
95
CHARLES ROBERT MATURIN
106
JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU
120
POETRY
130
THOMAS FURLONG
137
JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN
140
THOMAS DAVIS
159
POPULAR SONGS AND BALLADS
173
NATIONALIST WRITINGS AND THE EASTER RISING
183
JAMES CONNOLLY
189
CONSTANCE MARKIEWICZ
199
THOMAS MACDONAGH
212
MEMOIRS AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
220
SYNGE
232
GEORGE MOORE
240
POETRY
336
DOUGLAS HYDE
342
ETHNA CARBERY
365
LIONEL JOHNSON
371
Parnell 1893
377
OLIVER ST JOHN GOGARTY
384
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
389
PADRAIC COLUM
395
PATRICK KAVANAGH
401
LOUIS MACNEICE
405
DRAMA
412
W B YEATS AND AUGUSTA GREGORY
421
SYNGE
442
SEAN OCASEY
454
Explanatory Notes
472
Biographies
516
Publishers Acknowledgements
544
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Stephen Regan is a Lecturer in English, Royal Holloway, University of London.

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