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W.J.McCormack (b.1947) Professor of English at Goldsmiths College, University of London, is the author of many studies of Irish literature and culture, including SHERIDAN LEFANU AND VICTORIAN IRELAND(1978) ,ASCENDANCY AND TRADITION(1985); Recent publications include THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO MODERN IRISH CULTURE (1999) and THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY(2000) a biography of J.M. Synge. He is also an acclaimed poet, writing under the name of Hugh Maxton (THE ENGRAVED PASSION: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1970-1991) PUBLISHED IN 1992.This is the first collection of the major essays and writings of this important Irish critic and scholar.

One of medieval Ireland's greatest collections of stories and poems, THE COLLOQUY OF OLD MEN (12 th century by anonymous bards and compilers)is an extraordinary fictive accountant of journeys made by saint Patrick and the pagan Cailte, a survivor from an earlier epoch. The contrast between Druidic paganism and Christianity permeates the collection It is seen in accounts of Patrick's miracles, his success as a missioner, his claims to authority both moral and secular. In Cailte, ancient Ireland gives as good as it gets. His accounts are detail elopements, single heroic combats, and adventures in the Otherworld amongst the ancient gods and goddesses. This wealth of literary, cultural and folkloric material is retold in a fresh modern idiom and is complete with the full armature of scholarly research material.

This makes a major contribution to the "New Military History" of Ireland and adds the memory of the First World War of one of the "small nations" that emerged in the wake of that conflict to the numerous memory studies that exist for the primary combatant nations (Britain, France, and Germany).

This text discusses Swift's influence on German classicists and romantics as well as the reception theory behind Swift's success in 18th century Germany.

This late 19th century novel was one of the first to deal with crime and punishment in Ireland, as well as a host of other issues from a feminist as well as socially progressive point of view. Long out of print, Professor Murphy makes the case for its inclusion in the canon of Irish literature via a superbly written Introduction and an extensive series of notes and text discussions. Full text reproduced.

C.C.O'Brien's early writings contain the early on the mature, magisterial style and substance that have made him one of the finest political philosophers alive and active today. Edited with notes by Professor Edwards, this is the first collection of O'Brien's precient discourses on Ireland, Ulster, diplomacy,the UNO ,the UN and Africa and more.

C.C.O'Brien's extremely provocative and prolific literary criticism has been edited into a well organized study emphasizing the various writers and genres that have fascinated this great Irish statesman and writer. With notes and extensive introduction by Professor Skelly. This work is very useful(and revealing) of the currents in midcentury Irish and British writing and is particularly revealing discussing the origins of the new Irish literary renaissance in poetry and theatre that has emerged in the last two decades. Discusses Yeats, Joyce, O'Connell, Dublin as a literary center, censorship, Murphy, Bell, Fallon ,Heaney and others.

Dublin Magazine was a leading 19th journal of literature and politics in Ireland. Professor Hall discusses the influence and scope of the magazine via selections and edited pieces. And shows how it helped to form and frame literary and political opinion. Among the suprises is the interest evinced by the Bronte family in the magazine and their contributions to it. Indeed the readership was "the respectability of Ireland" and its influence was particularly strong during the mid century battles for Catholic Emancipation and Land Reform.

New approaches to the Augustan concept of madness and Swift's own as well as material on Gulliver's Travels and other key Swiftian works. Madness and memory in Swift explored in hitherto unpublished material by the author."...highly recommended. First rate discussion of crucial Swift themes."Professor Robert Mahony, CUA

Deals with the topic of the literature of the Irish Argentine. This work features material on specific authors, their economic and their demographic milieu as well as assessments on Irish allied cultural activities (journalism, politics and music).

William Carelton is a survivor. He lives through the pages of his poetry, short stories and novels and he reveled in his sobiquet "Father of Modern Irish Literature". A careful reading and analysis of his numerous works prove, according to Professor Sullivan, that Carleton actually was worthy of the title ascribed. Carelton wished to record the real Ireland of the agricultural drudges and the rural magnates, the native speakers and the British overseers Sullivan's work based on her own original research and that of Andre Boue is the first major study of Carelton since 1896. It covers Carelton's four "Realistic" novels of the Irish peasantry and clears up many mysteries, major and minor, dealing with the parentage, birth, education and political orientation of this writer: errors introduced by the author himself and his first biographer for a variety of reasons. Carelton's stance as pro rural and anti town was to echo in Irish poetry and drama and even influence the emergent nationalist rulers of Ireland 1921-1964. The author also discusses Carelton's truly complex financial and cultural relationships with Protestant, Catholic, Nationalist and Unionist patrons/sources and their influence on his work. Professor Sullivan also expands the literary horizon of Carelton's Ireland to discuss the influence on W.C. of Scots and English authors as well as the three great events of his lifetime: the loss of the Irish language, The Catholic Emancipation and the Great Famine. This biography will be sought out for its wealth of insight and research plus its unrivaled mastery of Carelton bibliography.

Most full length critical and biographical studies of Flann O'Brien(the nom de plume of Brian O' Nolan an otherwise inoffensive Irish public servant) tend to push aside the leviathan of "Cruiskeen Lawn"a commodious, encyclopedic work of some two million words and focus instead on his novels in English. Dr. Donohue in this important new study considers all of O' Nolan's work including college writings, letters to the editor(raised to a form of national genius by F O'B.) and works in Irish. It draws upon the research and biographical material of Anthony Cronin's NO LAUGHING MATTER along with new research and criticism and takes issue with some of the conclusions reached in Keith Hopper's A PORTRAIT OF A POSTMODERNIST. By tracing O'Nolan's development as an artist over time, this new study uncovers the relentless anatomist and post modernist in Flann O'Brien, a man of genius dissecting and exposing life and custom in mid 20th century Dublin. O'Nolan's views on the arts and the novel are carefully discussed along with his relation to the literary Ireland of the deValera years.

James Joyce's Giacomo Joyce has generated considerable interest since its posthumous publication in 1968 and this new, ground-breaking work addresses that interest. Giacomo Joyce has provoked widely differing opinions amongst Joyce scholars. But while critical attention has increased, little if anything has been done to draw together the various commentaries, document and exegeses related to this work in anything like a coherent manner. It is clear that in this absence of any full-length critical study that the emerging critical interest stands in need of a volume which would draw together existing scholarship and provide a basis for an ongoing critical project. This project has so far met with very positive responses from the community of Joyce scholars, and is widely considered to be a necessary and long over-due effort at presenting the last of Joyce's published texts within a broad scholarly apparatus. Both the authors have published extensively on Irish Literature and James Joyce and have presented papers at numerous Joyce conferences, symposia and summer schools.

Irish criticism of Jonathan Swift's work during his lifetime contributed to the formation of a uniquely Irish public sphere of letters- a public for whom the literary artist stood as the symbol and representative in the absence of empowered political institutions. This spirit was marked in Kathleen Williams' collection of eighteenth century criticism of Swift's work, entitled JONATHAN SWIFT: The Critical Heritage (Routledge, 1970). However, a number of recent critical, historical and biographical studies have expanded enormously our understanding of the growth of Swift's reputation during his lifetime while developments in critical theory, such as the New Historicism, Postcolonialism, and studies in print culture, have renewed interest in colonial cultures such as eighteenth-century Ireland. Professor Moore has compiled an advance upon the work of Kathleen Williams by expanding the range of materials considered to be critiques and focusing the volume's attention on contemporary Irish critical responses.

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna(1790-1846) is remembered for her religious tracts and her commentaries on Industrial Britain, but her writings on Ireland of the 1820s to the 1840s have largely been neglected. Her Irish reflections cover a range of topics from agrarian violence, landlordism, Daniel O' Connell, Catholic Emancipation, tithes, restrictions on the Church of Ireland in the 1830s, to national schools, the Irish Poor Law, Father Matthew, Repeal, the Orange Order, the Irish language, and, of course, the necessity of converting Irish Catholics. Her writing had several purposes, to support herself, to convey her religious ideas, to enlighten English readers about a country she had become fond of, and to gain their financial support for the evangelical cause. A book about Charlotte Elizabeth would serve a number of purposes. It could be construed as a biography, a history of pre-Famine Ireland, and an examination of the Second Reformation. It would allow for analysis of many of the pertinent issues such as the passing of Catholic Emancipation and its consequences, the introduction of the national schools, the eroding of the power of the Church of Ireland, agrarian violence, the Tithe War and the various reactions to Repeal. Finally, such a book is an addition to Irish History, religious history and women's history by placing the writings of Charlotte Elizabeth in the context of the history and historiography of the period.

This work is the study of a family's century long involvement with Irish self rule and political freedom. Joe Johnston (1890-1972), from a Tyrone Presbyterian small-farm background, had 3 elder brothers who made their careers in the Indian Civil Service. The family were 'Home Rule within the Empire' supporters in the Ulster liberal tradition. After studying classics and ancient history in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and then in Oxford, JJ became a Fellow of Trinity in 1913. He then published his anti-Carson book Civil War in Ulster, attacking the process which culminated in the 1914 Larne gun-running. He contributed significantly to the emergent national movement. He wrote critically about 1930s economic policies, and went on the serve in the Irish Senate/Sennad from 1939 to 1954. His son RJ (b.1929) was a pioneer of the student left in TCD in the 1940s, and was associated with the post-war attempt to bring European Marxist thinking into the Irish labour movement, with the foundation of the Irish Workers League in 1948. After a period in London in the early 1960s, he returned to Dublin, this time as a research scientist, and helped Cathal Goulding in his attempt to get the 1960s generation of republicans to go political, in a democratic left-wing mode, decoupling from the Stalinist incubus. He helped set the stage for the emergence of the Civil Rights approach to reform in Northern politics, as a means of opening up an all-Ireland perspective. His opponents in the Republican movement,the Provisionals, opted for violence . In the ensuing decades he participated in various politicising processes which may, in the end, show the counter-productive nature of the role of the gun in politics, in Ireland and elsewhere. Roy Johnston lives in Dublin and continues to be politically active. "An important addition to any library of 20th century Irish Studies" Professor J.Skelly

This research monograph a takes a bracing new look at the pieties and received scholarship dealing with the Irish Dramatic Revival of the late 19th and early 20 th century. Dr Vandevelde has reexamined the non canonical Irish theatre world and focuses on the understudied and the misunderstood world of commercial Dublin theatres, The Gaelic League and Daughters of Erin, National Players, The Player's Club, Ulster Literary Theatre among numerous amateur, semi-professional and professional companies. She has a closely argued reinterpretation of the dramas of Padraic Pearse, the Markieviczes and Johanna Redmond. Besides discussing the plays and playwrights of Ireland who wrote in English and Irish and were not involved with the well know Abbey Theatre world, Dr Vandevelde also investigates six key plays (all are reprinted here, some for the first time since 1913). These include Padraic Colum's THE FIDDLER'S HOUSE, Count Casimir Markevicz's THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD, Seamus MacManus THE LAD FROM LARGYMORE, Gerald MacNamara's THOMPSON IN TIR-NA-OG, Seamus O 'Beirn's AN DOICHTAIR,and Johanna Redmond's FALSELY TRUE." ..(A) major contribution to the understanding of Irish-language and English-language players and plays. Posits a more inclusive and intellectually stimulating theatre world than the usual Abbey-centric hagiography. Inclusion of the plays is a marvelous help to our understanding."Dr.James Murphy, NYCIS

Offers new theories of interpretation and analysis of the Gaelic sources dealing with the peopling of the Europe's Atlantic frontiers by the Celts [Kelts]. Important scholarly work is achieved in discussions of Celtic origins, linguistic development, cultural ethos, religion and history. The theoretical intersection of linguistics, anthropology and history is supplemented by a close reading of the ancient Gaelic sources contained in The Leabhar Gabhala.

Informed by analysis from classic and state of the art folklore scholarship, anthropological poetics, ethnic studies and recovery research on the Great Irish Famine (1845-1852), this monograph offers a collection and analysis of 'as-remembered' Irish-American folklore from New England and as such is a study of Irish-American historical memory.

A critical study of one of Ireland's most significant and abmitious living poets. Her collected writings seek nothing less than a redefinition of the myths structuring the cureent understanding of Ireland.

Discusses a critical element in the early poetry of Seamus Heaney: the question of poetic duty and responsibility, with specific reference to the poetry he published before moving from Ulster to the Irish Republic. The work demonstrates how his first four poetry collections exhibit a progression in how the poet, after coming to grips with his artistic vocation, finally discovers the means by which to address the terrible events that afflicted Northern Ireland at the time.

Ella Young (1867-1956) the Irish poet, Celtic mythologist and author lived an Irish life of almost 60 years, and then went on to have a dramatically different life in California that lasted over 30 years until her death. Using family papers, letters and diaries, this research monograph discusses Young's relationship with W. B. Yeats, George Moore and J.M.Synge, as well as her California academic world and the influence she exerted on Robinson Jeffers, Alan Watts, Ansel Adams and Harry Partch.

This two-volume work is an edited version of O'Grady's great achievements: "History of Ireland: The Heroic Period," "History of Ireland: Cuculain and His Contemporaries" and "A History of Ireland: Critical and Philosophical." Professor McNamara has edited the works not only in order to provide the scholarly reader with insights into O'Grady's subjects and methods but also to help restore the luster due to the progenitor of the Irish Revival (in the opinion of W.B. Yeats and many others). Original introductory material by Professor McNamara is included together with extensive notation and emendation.In nineteenth-century Ireland, Irish myth and legend were considered to be the interests of the uneducated poor living in remote rural areas. Standish James O'Grady, a young Anglo-Irish aristocrat, changed that. He complied fragmentary material into a comprehensive work and gave Irish legends a place of eminence and distinction they had lacked. Although he presented mythical/legendary/fictional events as historical fact, he reawakened in Irish people of all ranks an appreciation of the rich tradition and linguistic vitality of their native land. McNamara's editing and informative research will be indispensable for university and scholarly collections.

This two-volume work is an edited version of O'Grady's great achievements: History of Ireland: The Heroic Period, History of Ireland: Cuculain and His Contemporaries and A History of Ireland: Critical and Philosophical. These edited works provide the scholarly reader with insights into O'Grady's subjects and methods, and help restore the luster due to the progenitor of the Irish Revival (in the opinion of W.B. Yeats and many others).

Offers a study of poetry as an alternative way of seeing the world and of obtaining insights into realities that enable the reader to see the vast otherness that usually eludes. The process of creativity is discussed. The influences of other disciplines on the heightening of consciousness are described as are methodologies of observation that have been employed in the last 100 years.

This monograph investigates the inherent conflict between the literary awakening and the growth of republican nationalism in early 20th century Ireland. Professor Krause is one of the most distinguished students of Irish Literature in America.