When James Joyce called Irish the most belated race in Europe, he stated a complex truth about history of his people and nation they had been creating since 18th century. The Irish would, in Joyce's liftime, write many of masterpieces of modernism in English, while at same time forging a nation-state in many ways still backward-looking and traditionalist. The paradox of Irish history is one of many topics addressed in this book. It explores interrelation of Irish political history and Irish literature, and reconfigures contours of Irish cultural history. Including an examination of Anglo-Irish novel from Swift to George Moore, book discusses a host of unusual topics, from Shaw and science and Irish attitudes, to nature and question of language, and a full-scale investigation of Celtic revival. Terry Eagleton is author of Ideology, Marxism and Criticism, Criticism and Iedology, Walter Benjamin and Literary Theory: An Introduction.
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