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Books on: irish poet

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Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook

Book by Alexander G. Gonzalez; Greenwood Press, 1997

Subjects:

Authors, Irish--Biography--Dictionaries, English Literature--Irish Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, English Literature--Irish Authors--Dictionaries, Fiction, Ireland--Biography--Dictionaries, Ireland--Intellectual Life--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 modern Irish writers. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of the author's major works and themes, an overview of the writer's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. An opening ...
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This reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 modern Irish writers. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of the author's major works and themes, an overview of the writer's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. An opening essay surveys the critical response to Irish literature after 1885, and an extensive bibliography concludes the volume.
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The First World War in Irish Poetry

Book by Jim Haughey; Bucknell University Press, 2002

Subjects:

English Poetry--20th Century--History And Criticism, English Poetry--Irish Authors--History And Criticism, Ireland--In Literature, War Poetry, English--History And Criticism, World War, 1914-1918--Ireland--Literature And The War

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...with the cultural and political. Irish poet-critic Gerald Dawe has rightly...commemorate the life and poetry of Irish soldier poet Francis Ledwidge, while in the...arguably the best poems written by any Irish poet about the war, these tributes to...
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America and Ireland, 1776-1976: The American Identity and the Irish Connection: the Proceedings of the United States Bicentennial Conference of Cumann Merriman, Ennis, August 1976

Book by Con Howard, David Noel Doyle, Owen Dudley Edwards; Greenwood Press, 1980

Subjects:

Ireland--Relations--United States--Congresses, Irish Americans--Congresses, United States--Relations--Ireland--Congresses

Collections: History, Entire Library

...collaborative effort. In 1976, the Merriman Summer School--taking its name from the brilliant eighteenth-century Irish poet Brian Merriman, and held annually in County Clare, Ireland--devoted itself to the theme "Ireland and America, 1776-1976...
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The Renaissance of Irish Poetry: 1880-1930

Book by David Morton; I. Washburn, 1929

Subjects:

English Poetry--Irish Authors--History And Criticism, Poetry

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...need it be assumed that the modern Irish poet has learned this exclusively from...scenes forms the theme of many an Irish poet who loves the setting in which his...and legendary significance that the Irish poet names in his verses. He likes to...
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Back to the Present, Forward to the Past: Irish Writing and History since 1798 - Vol. 1

Book by Patricia A. Lynch, Joachim Fischer, Brian Coates; Rodopi, 2006

Subjects:

English Literature--Irish Authors--19th Century--History And Criticism--Congresses, English Literature--Irish Authors--20th Century--History And Criticism--Congresses, History In Literature--Congresses, Ireland--History--Congresses, Literature And History--Ireland--Congresses

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...particular phase in Irish history, 1969-75...as they must if the poet is to continue...belief that only an Irish poet could have written...his reputation as a poet was revered there...to believe that the Irish, so long mistreated...

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Journal Articles on: irish poet

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The Textualizing of Sound: Romantic-Period Pseudo-Songs

Journal article by Terence Hoagwood; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 38, 2007

Subjects:

Ballads--Evaluation, Industrial development--Influence, Industrialization--Influence, Irish Melodies (Collection)--Criticism and interpretation, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation, Moore, Thomas (Irish poet)--Evaluation, Moore, Thomas (Irish poet)--Works, Romanticism (Literature)--Evaluation, Scott, Walter (British novelist)--Evaluation, Scott, Walter (British novelist)--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...consult, and he listened approvingly to her singing at her house; he sang himself, though, when the poet Thomas Campbell asked him to sing one of the Irish Melodies, Moore replied, "the air is not fit for words, I never sing it" (June 2, 1819; 1: 181...
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Zukovskij's Translation of Oliver Goldsmith's "The Deserted Village" (1)

Journal article by Kenneth H. Ober, Warren U. Ober; Germano-Slavica, Vol. 15, 2005

Subjects:

Goldsmith, Oliver (Irish poet)--Criticism and interpretation, Goldsmith, Oliver (Irish poet)--Works, Poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Poetry--Translations and translating, The Deserted Village (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, The Deserted Village (Poem)--Translations and translating, Zukovskij, Vasilij Andreevic--Criticism and interpretation, Zukovskij, Vasilij Andreevic--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...four pirated editions, two Irish editions, and a French translation...the Russian early Romantic poet-translator, who during a long...influence of his friend and fellow poet-translator Andrej Turgenev...is there a more distinguished poet-translator? KENNETH H. OBER...
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Gastro-Graphy: Food as Metaphor in Fred Wah's Diamond Grill and Austin Clarke's Pig Tails 'N Breadfruit

Journal article by Rosalia Baena; Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal, Vol. 38, 2006

Subjects:

Clarke, Austin (Irish poet)--Criticism and interpretation, Diamond Grill (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Imagery (Literature)--Analysis, Pig Tails 'n Breadfruit (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Wah, Fred--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...her daughter (8). The absence of food descriptions in the depictions of the non-Chinese side of the family, from the Scottish/Irish/Swedish background, nor other alimentary images of other cuisine, is very telling in this regard. No food traditions or memorable...
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Flora's Answer to the Irish Question: A Study of Mary Lavin's "The Becker Wives

Journal article by Mary Neary; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 42, 1996

Subjects:

Authors, Irish--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Ireland--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Lavin, Mary--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Nationalism and literature--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Women authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the old mythology, the old language, or forward into a nation state - just as mythic - free from outside influence. The Irish poet Eavan Boland paints the tortuous Irish quest for an identity eloquently: Across years of humiliation no people can...
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"Oh, God, What a Pity!": The Irish Brigade at Fredericksburg and the Creation of Myth

Journal article by Craig A. Warren; Civil War History, Vol. 47, 2001

Subjects:

History--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Irish in the United States--History, Military history--Race relations, Soldiers--Portrayals, depictions, etc., United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the "excellent performance of the band" overshadowed Irish poet John Savages requiem, which is recorded almost as...poem "At Fredericksburg--Dec. 13, 1862." OReilly, an Irish nationalist poet and Fenian, read the work in public at least as early...

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Magazine Articles on: irish poet

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Mystic Poet

Magazine article by Terry Eagleton; The Nation, Vol. 277, December 8, 2003

Subjects:

W.B. Yeats: A Life. Volume 2: The Arch-Poet (Book)

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...middle-class Anglo-Irish Protestant poet from the west of Ireland...would be not just poet and mystic but sage...clandestine member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood...staffed mostly by Anglo-Irish Protestant artists...magnificent biography of the poet, which this second...
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Irish-American Dreams

Magazine article by Richard Tillinghast; New Criterion, Vol. 24, June 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, There You Are: Writings on Irish and American Literature and History (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...one of several very good essays on Yeats, Flanagan helps us get to the core of the problem many Irish critics and writers have with this great poet. He points out that Yeats attempted to found an Irish national literature on myth, whereas those...
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Ireland at the Somme: John Horne Asks Why the Heroic Efforts of the Two Irish Divisions, the 16th (Irish) and the 36th (Ulster), in the Bloody Events on the Western Front in 1916, Have Been Viewed So Differently Both at the Time and Since

Magazine article by John Horne; History Today, Vol. 57, April 2007

Subjects:

British history--Analysis, Irish War of Independence, 1919-1921--History, Irish history--Analysis

Collections: History, Entire Library

...notable of these members was Thomas Kettle, former MP, lawyer, poet, journalist and a professor at the National University in Dublin...stand aside from a war in which the very values that justified Irish independence were at stake. Great Britain is right with the...
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Paddy Solemn and the Desperate Chancer: The Conflict between Two Eternal Irish Types

Magazine article by Geoffrey Wheatcroft; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 291, April 2003

Subjects:

Dunphy, Eamon--Behavior, Ireland--Social aspects, Irish (European people)--Social aspects, Irish--Social aspects

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...John Hume, the former President Mary Robinson, and even the poet Seamus Heaney, who is way beyond criticism in Dublin. Last...might have been designed to illustrate Johnsons saying that "the Irish are a fair people;--they never speak well of one another" and...
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Irish Imperialism: Confident and Glamorous, Emigres from Ireland Enriched the Culture of Victorian England

Magazine article by Simon Poe; New Statesman, Vol. 134, March 14, 2005

Subjects:

Art, Irish--Influence, Irish art--Influence

Collections: Entire Library

...son William. This is an image of "the dandy as Messiah". The poet leans forward, fixing the viewer with his glittering eyes. He...images of the show. Not all the artists in the exhibition are Irish, though many are. In the words of the ever-quotable Shaw, "every...

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Newspaper Articles on: irish poet

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NO PREDATOR; TOP IRISH POET SPEAKS OUT Gay Star Denies Exploiting Teen Boys for Sex in Nepal

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), February 6, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

NO PREDATOR; TOP IRISH POET SPEAKS OUT Gay Star...Searcaigh was passed to Irish authorities. In the...as an "ode" to the poet and his work helping...their motivation." The poet and broadcaster is...collections in the Irish language which have...
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Younger, Healthier in 2008; "I Am of a Healthy Long Lived Race, and Our Minds Improve with Age." - William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish Poet. Letter, June 24, 1935. the Letters of W.B. Yeats, Ed. Allan Wade (1954)

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 6, 2008

Subjects:

Poets

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Healthier in 2008; "I Am of a Healthy Long Lived Race, and Our Minds Improve with Age." - William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish Poet. Letter, June 24, 1935. the Letters of W.B. Yeats, Ed. Allan Wade (1954). Byline: DR. BRIX PUJALTE LETS start the...
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Women Just Keep Quiet (about These); "Although You Hide a Secret, Hopeless and Dear, or Terrible to Think on, Speak It, That I May Send through the Wide World for Medicine." - W.B. Yeats (1865-1939), Irish Poet Responsibilities and Other Poems. 1916

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, March 4, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Dear, or Terrible to Think on, Speak It, That I May Send through the Wide World for Medicine." - W.B. Yeats (1865-1939), Irish Poet Responsibilities and Other Poems. 1916. Byline: Dr. Jose Pujalte Jr. ABOUT these things, women seem to have lost...
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Betjeman's Mystery Irish Love Revealed Poet Changed Details to Hide Muse's Identity; Torn: John Betjeman with His Wife Penelope, Left,;the Poem He Penned for His 'Other Woman'

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 11, 2007

Subjects:

Poets

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Betjemans Mystery Irish Love Revealed Poet Changed Details to Hide Muses Identity; Torn: John...revealed her secret recently while opening a new Irish show in honour ofthe famous English poet, following the centenary last year of his birth...
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IRISH ARISTOCRAT GOES CRAZY WITH SMOKERS AT 35,000 FT; Poet Denies Making First Class Pest of Himself

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), June 23, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

IRISH ARISTOCRAT GOES CRAZY WITH SMOKERS AT 35,000 FT; Poet Denies Making First Class Pest of Himself...aboard a jumbo jet carrying 300 people, Irish aristocrat John Bagwell, 42, leapt to...the cockpit to confront the captain. Poet Bagwell, of Berkeley Street, Mayfair...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: irish poet

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Heaney, Seamus

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...m s he ne, 1939 , Irish poet, b. Londonderry (now...is a lyrical nature poet, writing with limpid...from Belfast to the Irish Republic in 1972...Irelands greatest poet since William Butler...including the medieval Irish Sweeney Astray...
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Yeats, W. B

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Butler Yeats), 1865 1939, Irish poet and playwright, b. Dublin. The greatest lyric poet Ireland has produced and...acknowledged leader of the Irish literary renaissance...He became fascinated by Irish legends and by the occult...
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Stephens, James

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

STEPHENS, JAMES 1882 1950, Irish poet and fiction writer, b. Dublin. One of the leading figures of the Irish literary renaissance , Stephens is...1912), The Demi - Gods (1914), Irish Fairy Tales (1920), Deirdre (1923...
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Synge, John Millington

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...JOHN MILLINGTON sing, 1871 1909, Irish poet and dramatist, b. near Dublin, of...He was an important figure in the Irish literary renaissance . As a young...depict the bleak and tragic lives of Irish peasants and fisherfolk. His first...
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Graves, Alfred Percival

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

GRAVES, ALFRED PERCIVAL 1846 1931, Irish poet. An inspector of schools, he was also twice president of the Irish literary society. He compiled several volumes of Irish music and folksongs. Included among his own...

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