Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation
by Declan Kiberd
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Just as Ireland has produced many brilliant writers in the past century, so these writers have produced a new Ireland. In a book unprecedented in its scope and approach, Declan Kiberd offers a vivid account of the personalities and texts, English and Irish alike, that reinvented the country after centuries of colonialism. The result is a major literary history of modern Ireland, combining detailed and daring interpretations of literary masterpieces with assessments of the wider role of show more language, sport, clothing, politics, and philosophy in the Irish revival. Inventing Ireland restores to the Irish past a sense of openness that it once had and that has since been obscured by narrow-gauge nationalists and their polemical revisionist critics. In closing, Kiberd outlines an agenda for Irish studies in the next century and detects the signs of a second renaissance in the work of a new generation of authors and playwrights, from Brian Friel to the younger Dublin writers. show lessTags
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Declan Kiberd is the author of Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation, which won the Irish Times Prize. He lives in Dublin.
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- Canonical title
- Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation
- People/Characters
- Samuel Beckett; Brendan Behan; Elizabeth Bowen; Eamon de Valera; Brian Friel; Lady Gregory (Isabella Augusta, nee Persse) (show all 17); Seamus Heaney; Douglas Hyde; James Joyce; Flann O'Brien; Sean O'Casey; Patrick Pearse; George Bernard Shaw; Edith Somerville; J. M. Synge; Oscar Wilde; William Butler Yeats
- Important places
- The Abbey Theatre, Dublin; Ireland
- Important events
- Easter Rising (1916)
- Dedication
- For Lucy, Amy, Rory -- and the coming times
- First words
- INTRODUCTION -- If God invented whiskey to prevent the Irish from ruling the world, then who invented Ireland?
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Nonfiction, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 820.9 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures History, description, critical appraisal of works in more than one form
- LCC
- PR8753 .K53 — Language and Literature English English Literature English literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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- English
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