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1000 Years of Irish Prose

Book by Vivian Mercier, David H. Greene; Devin-Adair, 1952

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English Prose Literature--Irish Authors, Irish Prose Literature

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...collection modestly entitled 1000 Years of Irish Prose , we had no hesitation in ignoring...broken sets and faded grandeur--Irish harps on the cover and blind Carolan...designed to show the world what the Irish have always known, that half of...
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Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790-1870: Politics, History, and the Family from Edgeworth and to Arnold

Book by Mary Jean Corbett; Cambridge University Press, 2000

Subjects:

England--Relations--Ireland, English Fiction--Irish Authors--History And Criticism, English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Prose Literature--Irish Authors--History And Criticism, Family In Literature, Imperialism In Literature, Ireland--In Literature, Ireland--Intellectual Life--19th Century, Ireland--Relations--England, Literature And History--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Literature And History--Ireland--History--19th Century, Nationalism In Literature, Politics And Literature--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Politics And Literature--Ireland--History--19th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...1868. 43 Matthew Arnold, Irish Catholicism and British Liberalism, Complete Prose Works IX. 322. 44 Arnold...within the text. 45 Steele, Irish Land 63. 46 Bew, National...substantial argument that Gladstones Irish policy was dictated by political...
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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

...ed. The Genius of Irish Prose . Dublin: Mercier, 1984...and Tradition in Anglo-Irish Literary History from 1739...Donegal Authors . Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1982. OLeary Philip. The Prose Literature of the Gaelic...
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Modern Irish Literature: Sources and Founders

Book by Vivian Mercier, Eilís Dillon; Clarendon Press, 1994

Subjects:

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

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...foreigner as Kuno Meyer upon the Irish literary scene, the Age of the Native...64 Meyer translated much early Irish prose and poetry into German, but he also...found in Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry 1911 ; almost every poem in...
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On the Continuity of English Prose from Alfred to More and His School: An Extract from the Introduction to Nicholas Harpsfield's Life of Sir Thomas More

Book by R. W. Chambers; Oxford University Press, 1957

Subjects:

English Prose Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700, Fiction, More, Thomas--Sir, Saint--1478-1535

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...they cannot have great prose. Prose is an institution, part of the...for this early development of prose in England. Greek prose and Latin prose were too firmly...1 The chronology of Old Irish prose, as Dr. Robin Flower has...

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Jennifer M. Jeffers: The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies, and Power

Journal article by C.J. Ganter; International Fiction Review, Vol. 31, 2004

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Books--Book reviews, The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century (Book)--Book reviews

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...concerns of most pre-1990s Irish writing. In chapter four...the author discusses prose that keeps on "slipping...concerns in contemporary Irish prose. A serious problem, however...of the fin-de-siecle Irish novel. While it is not...
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The Heroic Outlaw in Irish Folklore and Popular Literature

Journal article by Ray Cashman; Folklore, Vol. 111, 2000

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Heroes in literature--Ireland, Ireland--Folklore, legends, etc., Irish literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Outlaws--Folklore, legends, etc.

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...narrative is most likely a prose rendition of the first...the Moor." Popular in Irish broadsides and frequently...is one of few surviving Irish-language, prose accounts of a rapparee...archived at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin and...
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Irish Classics

Journal article by Lauren Onkey; Criticism, Vol. 44, 2002

Subjects:

Irish Classics (Book)

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...Kiberd, a Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at University College...intellectual because of his accessible prose and his cogent commentary on trends in Irish culture. Kiberds last book...study of twentieth-century Irish writing, has been the single...
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Rhetoric, Narrative, and Conceptions of History in the French Prose Brut

Journal article by Alan Maccoll; Medium Aevum, Vol. 74, 2005

Subjects:

Medieval poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Poetry, Medieval--Criticism and interpretation, Prose Brut (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Conceptions of History in the French Prose Brut. by Alan MacColl Scholars...Cited by Molly Lynde-Recchia, Prose, Verse and Truth-Telling...p. 174; Lynde-Recchia, Prose, Verse and Truth-Telling...Word-List from British and Irish Sources (London, 1980...
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Irish Voyages and Visions: Pre-Figuring, Re-configuring Utopia

Journal article by Tom Moylan; Utopian Studies, Vol. 18, 2007

Subjects:

Irish literature--Criticism and interpretation, Utopianism--Analysis, Utopianism--Influence

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...The Otherworld Voyage in Early Irish Literature. Ed. Jonathan Woodring...Socialism and Selected Critical Prose. London: Penguin, 2001...The Otherworld Voyage in Early Irish Literature. Ed. Jonathan Woodring...The Otherworld Voyage in Early Irish Literature. Ed. Jonathan Woodring...

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Irish-American Dreams

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

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...historical novels, what The Irish Novelists accomplished in the...year the first certifiably "Irish" novel, Castle Rackrent by...Kingdom of Ireland and melding the Irish nation with Great Britain...often informs and enlivens his prose. In a wonderful essay on the...
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The Poetry of Irish Murdoch

Magazine article by Geoffrey Heptonstall; Contemporary Review, Vol. 274, February 1999

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Murdoch, Irish--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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The poetry of Irish Murdoch. by Geoffrey Heptonstall Unusually, Iris Murdoch came late to...It is as close to poetry as narrative fiction may be while remaining prose. The poetry of Iris Murdoch is in the fictive use of symbols, and in...
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A Master Critic on Irish Literature

Magazine article by Chris Arthur; Contemporary Review, Vol. 293, Spring 2011

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Books--Book reviews, The Literature of Ireland: Culture and Criticism (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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...equally at home writing about prose, poetry, or drama. He handles...often neglected in accounts of Irish literature. Prof. Brown writes...he was Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at Trinity College...Picador Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction. (1993), Dermot...
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Not Green, Not Red Not Pink: Oscar Wilde Cannot Be Simplified into an Irish Rebel, a Subversive Socialist, of a Gay Martyr

Magazine article by Geoffre Wheatcroft; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 291, May 2003

Subjects:

English writers, Oscar Wilde

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...was matched by the leaden prose drama of Vera, ostensibly a...before she instead chose a young Irish civil servant named Bram Stoker...red, and pink: Wilde the Irish rebel, Wilde the subversive...one of the saner contemporary Irish historians, has called the...
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Not Green, Not Red, Not Pink: Oscar Wilde Cannot Be Simplified into an Irish Rebel, a Subversive Socialist, or a Gay Martyr

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

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Dramatists, English, Dramatists--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Criticism and interpretation, Wilde, Oscar--Criticism and interpretation

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...was matched by the leaden prose drama of Vera, ostensibly a...before she instead chose a young Irish civil servant named Bram Stoker...red, and pink: Wilde the Irish rebel, Wilde the subversive...one of the saner contemporary Irish historians, has called the...

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A NOVEL APPROACH; His Latest Book, Star of the Sea, Establishes Joseph O'Connor as One of Ireland's Foremost Literary Talents. but, He Tells Andrew Wilson, He Fears He Is Unlikely to Ever Write 'The Great Irish Novel'

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 2, 2004

Subjects:

O'Connor, Joseph (Irish writer)

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

...short story - Sierra Leone - by Irish writer John McGahern. A few...write the great novel of the Irish famine - and maybe at a later...familiar with literature on the Irish famine, but in order to widen...ofunflashy but deeply haunting prose. The last piece in this book...
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Irish Drama, Poetry, Song in Spotlight at KenCen

Newspaper article by Cathryn Donohoe; The Washington Times, May 13, 2000

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

...where capacity is 2,500. Four Irish and American prose writers - John McGahern, Jennifer...discuss their work Monday night. Irish poets Eavan Boland, Paul Durcan...Dhomhnaill do the same on Tuesday. * Irish film is represented by a collection...
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In Search of an Authentic Irish Pub

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), July 5, 2009

Subjects:

Barich, Bill

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

...descriptions and vivid, entertaining prose, all very Irish dont you know. The book also serves as a fine Baedeker for many things Irish, from its famous writers to its...what he called the most authentic Irish pub in New York, Kinsales Tavern...
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Irish Fiction

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), March 27, 2011

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

...of the short story, as well as Irish writers based abroad including...an updated, dizzyingly lyrical prose reworking of the old Irish poetry genre in which Ireland...whatever the state of the economy, Irish writing is as strong as ever.
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Celebrating Irish Heritage in Art, Story and Dance

Newspaper article by Patrick Butters; The Washington Times, January 22, 2000

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

...Beckett and Heaney: A Century of Irish Nobel Laureates" at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Politics Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse...throughout the week include Irish documentaries and shorts such as "Baseball in Irish History," "Ciderpunks...

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Gaelic Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Middle and Late Middle Irish manuscripts that are...miscellaneous collections of prose and verse in which legend...culture. The late medieval prose includes one of the most...Storytelling. Late Middle Irish and Modern Irish The 16th and 17th cent...
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Bowen, Elizabeth

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

BOWEN, ELIZABETH bo in, 1899 1973, Anglo-Irish novelist, b. Dublin. In impeccable prose she treated love and frustration through studies of complex psychological relationships. Her novels include The Hotel (1927...
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Yeats, W. B

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...were collected in 1895. Drama and Prose Yeatss efforts to foster Irish nationalism were inspired for years by Maud Gonne, an Irish patriot for whom he had a hopeless...and Edward Martyn he founded the Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin; their...
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Stephens, James

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...STEPHENS, JAMES 1882 1950, Irish poet and fiction writer, b...of the leading figures of the Irish literary renaissance , Stephens...fanciful and highly colored prose writings The Crock of Gold (1912), The Demi - Gods (1914), Irish Fairy Tales (1920), Deirdre...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...revolutionist, and visionary prophet. In prose fiction, departures from social realism...literary criticism and other nonfictional prose. Coleridge proposed an influential theory...simple survival, and Seamus Heaney , an Irish poet who is hailed for his exquisite style...

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