The Literature of Ireland: Culture and Criticism

Abstract

Introduction 1. The Literary Revival: historical reflections 2. Joyce's magic lantern 3. Music: the cultural issue 4. Modernism and revolution: re-reading Yeats's 'Easter 1916' 5. Shakespeare and the Irish self 6. Irish literature and the Great War 7. Irish modernism and the 1930s 8. Post-modernists: Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien 9. Patrick Kavanagh: religious poet 10. MacNeice's Ireland: MacNeice's Islands 11. Louis MacNeice and the Second World War 12. MacNeice and the Puritan tradition 13. John Hewitt and memory: a reflection 14. Michael Longley and the Irish poetic tradition 15. Seamus Heaney: the witnessing eye and the speaking tongue 16. Derek Mahon: the poet and painting 17. Telling tales: Kennelly's Cromwell and Muldoon's 'The More a Man Has the More a Man Wants' 18. Redeeming the time: the novels of John McGahern and John Banvillle 19. 'Have we a context': transition, self and society in the drama of Brian Friel 20. Hubert Butler and nationalism 21. The Irish Dylan Thomas: versions and influences.

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