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Books on: irish writer

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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

...roles Corkery plays in the Irish short story tradition is his role as mentor to younger writers such as Frank OConnor and Sean...model, encouraging younger writers to explore various literary...the first important fiction writer to portray Cork realistically...districts where traditional rural Irish life remained. Corkery was...
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The Comic Tradition in Irish Women Writers

Book by Theresa O'Conner; University Press of Florida, 1996

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Comic, The, In Literature, English Literature--Irish Authors--History And Criticism, English Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, English Wit And Humor--Irish Authors--History And Criticism, Humorous Stories, English--Irish Authors--History And Criticism, Ireland--In Literature, Women And Literature--Ireland--History

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Keanes tragicomic portraits of Anglo-Irish society in its death throes. Keanes...authentic" from an "inauthentic" Irish writer? Flora Alexanders essay, "Iris...in Dublin. Alexander examines the Irish element in the work of this writer...
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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

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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

...Gothic has been for some Anglo-Irish writers. For Sheridan Le Fanu, Elizabeth...particular problems of the Anglo-Irish in Ireland, what are the attractions of the Gothic to a writer such as John Banville? He...novel as he does the Anglo-Irish Big House novel. However...
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Back to the Present, Forward to the Past: Irish Writing and History since 1798 - Vol. 2

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

...apparently opposing polarities of the Irish and the European Joyce both...each other. There is no other writer who can exemplify better the...otherness. Joyces identity as an Irish writer is inseparable from his...past and the revival of the Irish language, Irish myths and Irish...
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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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Swift is the only great Irish writer associated with an intact...Glendaloch. Recent writers whose fame is something...I believe the Irish writer is slowly but surely...saint had no skill in Irish verse, there were always...to become his ghost-writers. Kenney lists seventy-nine Irish poems attributed to

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Journal Articles on: irish writer

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From the Uninvited to the Visitor: The Post-Independence Dilemma Faced by Irish Women Writers

Journal article by Abigail L. Palko; Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 31, 2010

Subjects:

Authors, Irish--Social aspects, Authors, Irish--Works, Irish history--Research, Irish writers--Social aspects, Irish writers--Works, Women authors--Social aspects, Women authors--Works, Women writers--Social aspects, Women writers--Works, Women's rights--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Independence Dilemma Faced by Irish Women Writers. by Abigail L. Palko The...befallen so many other popular Irish women writers of the first half of the twentieth...Sentimental: Contemporary Irish American Women Writers, ed. Sally Barr Ebest and...
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'Companions of the Cheshire Cheese': Epistolary Lives of Contemporary Irish Poets

Journal article by Taura S. Napier; Journal of European Studies, 2002

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Authors, Irish--Criticism and interpretation, Irish poetry--Personalities, Irish writers--Criticism and interpretation, Letters (Correspondence)--Criticism and interpretation, Letters--Criticism and interpretation

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...autobiography, modernism, and Irish literature of the nineteenth and...autobiography and correspondence of Irish writer Mary Colum, and has also written...contemporary autobiographies by Northern Irish writers and life-writing in the American...
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"Preying on Foresaid Remains": Irish Identity, Obituaries, and the Limits of Mourning

Journal article by Duncan Greenlaw; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 34, 2001

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Authors, Irish--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Beckett, Samuel--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Grief--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Group identity--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Ireland--Literature, Joyce, James--Criticism, interpretation, etc., National characteristics--Ireland, Obituaries--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Beckett was not "an Irish writer in any narrow sense of...on a string. Becketts Irish obituarists join in...through Beckett, as the Irish Times says, it gains a voice through the writers voice, which, like...as the representative writer of "an age which has...
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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

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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

...Conyngham was the first important Irish writer to reinterpret Fredericksburg...credence to the heroism promoted by Irish Brigade writers. The Lee quotation, in particular...strikingly similar to that of Irish writers: "But hark, what cheer is...
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Murray Pittock, Scottish and Irish Romanticism

Journal article by Laura Dabundo; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 39, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Scottish and Irish Romanticism (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...confreres, as well as contemporary Irish writers. The book finds some...lies in Pittocks concern with Irish and Scottish writers in their...dialogues among and between these writers (the Wordsworth presented...might think, Scottish and Irish Romanticism asserts that "Burns is a sophisticated writer, and writing in Scots is always...

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Magazine Articles on: irish writer

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Regarding Henry: Irish Novelist Colm Toibin Talks about Writing the Master, His Riveting Journey into the Mind of America's Great Gay Writer Henry James

Magazine article by Michael Giltz; The Advocate, June 8, 2004

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Authors--Interviews, Toibin, Colm--Interviews, Writers--Interviews

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Regarding Henry: Irish Novelist Colm Toibin Talks about...the Mind of Americas Great Gay Writer Henry James. by Michael Giltz Perhaps it was fate. Acclaimed Irish author thor Colm Toibin was...chance to reclaim the life of a writer who removed almost all traces...
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First Annual Irish Writers Guild Awards

Magazine article; Film Ireland, January 2008

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First Annual Irish Writers Guild Awards Micro-budget Irish feature film Once has added to...of prizes with a ZeBBie - an Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters...Whitehead (aka Zebby), actor and writer, who sponsored playwriting awards...
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Ireland's Contemporary Writers: An Exploration

Magazine article by Liam Heaney; Contemporary Review, Vol. 291, Autumn 2009

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Authors, Irish--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, Irish--Works, Irish writers--Criticism and interpretation, Irish writers--Works, Literature, Modern--Criticism and interpretation, Modern literature--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...context for the writers, poets and playwrights...the outcome of the Irish Civil War declaring...1973) is another writer who had a unique...extraordinary talent as a writer, William Trevor...Achievement Award in Irish Literature in 2008...exceptional talent as a writer. Her work explores in detail Irish society and family...There are some writers whose lives are...
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The Irish in Paris: For Centuries, the Passionate and Sometimes Persecuted Irish Have Felt a Peculiar Sympathy with Europe's Self-Anointed Capital of Sophistication

Magazine article by Max Byrd; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 34, Summer 2010

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Irish (European people)--Emigration and immigration, Irish--Emigration and immigration, Nationalism, Paris, France--Appreciation, Paris, France--Social aspects

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...entertaining volume by the same writer, rather suggestively rifled Irish Swordsmen of France, recounts the lives of six notable Irish generals who fought in the...three great modern Anglo-Irish writers who, though astonishingly...
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The Blarney Beat: The Press Just Can't Get Enough of Those Witty, Charming Irish Americans

Magazine article by Michael Mcgough; American Journalism Review, Vol. 15, March 1993

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Irish Americans--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Journalists--Practice

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...do it, and being Irish, they might even...only New York Times writer to use Irishness...thoroughly assimilated Irish Americans and for profile writers for whom Irishness...exception for the Irish. Perhaps profile writers should attach more...

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Newspaper Articles on: irish writer

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SHOWBITCH IRELAND: GAMBLING MAN IS THE TOP DOG; with a Life-Time of Experiences to Draw on, Irish Writer Pearse Elliott Beats Top Hollywood Movies to the Number One Film Slot

Newspaper article; The People (London, England), October 24, 2004

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

...EXCLUSIVE TINA CALDER IRISH writer Pearse Elliott has revealed...Paltrow and Jude Law in the Irish box office charts. The...Dublin-based Belfastborn writers success, the film...nominated for TEN coveted Irish Film amp; TV Awards this month. Last night the writer told how he was delighted...
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AUTHORS MADE OF WRITE STUFF; Irish Writers Have Turned a New Leaf with Stories of the Land of the Celtic Tiger. but They Remain Wary of the Modern Country That Inspires Them

Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), June 27, 1999

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

...next book. "I am proud to be Irish and I get most of my inspiration...think like that in any stage of Irish history we will make mistakes...is not a big fan of classic Irish writers like WB Yeats and Patrick Kavanagh...love." But the curly haired writer is not as optimistic about...
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My Ma Rubbed Up X-Files Beauty the Right Way! IRISH WRITER TELLS HOW MASSAGES HELPED STAR GILLIAN STAY WARM

Newspaper article; The People (London, England), February 13, 2005

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Anderson, Gillian

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

...X-Files Beauty the Right Way! IRISH WRITER TELLS HOW MASSAGES HELPED STAR GILLIAN...Anderson had her feet MASSAGED by an Irish housewife during a break in filming...hilarious Man About Dog. The surprise Irish box office hit came in eighth place...
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OUR OSTRICH NATION; in America, Where This Irish Writer Is Based, Vast Swathes of the Electorate Are Protesting at Tax Rises and Bank Bailouts. after a Visit Home, Where Our Crisis Is Manifestly Worse, He Asks Why on Earth Do We Bury Our Heads in the Sand?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 17, 2010

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Bank bailouts--Demonstrations and protests, Banks (Finance)--Demonstrations and protests, Banks (Finance)--Taxation, Tax policy--Demonstrations and protests

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

...NATION; in America, Where This Irish Writer Is Based, Vast Swathes of the Electorate...one that should resonate most with Irish people. Think about it. These activists...willing to apportion guilt but too many Irish people are too lazy or disinterested...
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Monday Books: Irish out of the Reckoning; Famous Irish Writers by Martin Wallace Appletree Press. Pounds 7.99

Newspaper article by Paul Cormicain; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), February 28, 2000

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

...by Paul Cormicain FAMOUS Irish Writers needs to be approached...smugness. Was I not familiar with Irish writers and even more with Anglo-Irish writers? Did I not know famous "English" writers like George Bernard Shaw actually...Travels? Perhaps the greatest writer of the last century of the...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: irish writer

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O'FaolÁin, SeÁn

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

OFAOLAIN, SEAN shon ofal n, 1900 1991, Irish writer. The relation of the individual to society was often...of Ireland, notably Song of Ireland (1943) and The Irish (1948). See study by M. Harmon (1967...
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Maginn, William

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

MAGINN, WILLIAM m gin , 1793 1842, Irish writer. Some of his best stories and essays appeared in Blackwoods...Duel with Ensign Brady" is considered one of the most humorous Irish tales ever written. In 1830 he established the highly successful...
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O'Brien, Edna

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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OBRIEN, EDNA 1932 , Irish writer, b. Twamgraney. After living in Dublin, she moved (1954) to...vicissitudes of womens lives while treating larger themes of the Irish experience. The semiautobiographical The Light of Evening (2006...
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Trevor, William

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

TREVOR, WILLIAM 1928 , Anglo-Irish fiction writer, b. Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, as William Trevor Cox, grad. Trinity College, Dublin (1950). He settled in London in 1960...
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O'Connor, Frank

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

OCONNOR, FRANK 1903 66, Irish short-story writer, whose name originally was Michael...tender, and penetrating studies of Irish life. He also published poetry, critical works, and volumes of Irish history. See his autobiography...

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