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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.

A major contribution to the study of Swift and Irish politics and life in the early 18th century. A scholarly study, contains critical new research as well as over 100 reprints of documents, broadsides, ballads that comprise the heart of the pamphlet controversy aroused by Wood's halfpenny scheme.

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.

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.

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.

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.