Readers of this volume will be struck by the pervasiveness of the connections between the medieval and the modern in Ireland and the Irish, artists in particular, and realize why James Joyce could hardly avoid linking the modern Irish ...

Reprint of the 1883 first edition which was published in Paris.

This book offers a new perspective on the "otherworlds" of medieval literature.

This work explores the interrelation of Irish political history and Irish literature.

Heathcliff and the Great Hunger examines Irish culture from Swift to Joyce, in the light of the tortuous, often tragic, history that conditioned it.

This is an ambitious, comparative study, which will interest literary and political historians.

A survey of 200 years of Irish writing, this book offers analytic accounts of key Irish works and authors.

This book uses J.M. Synge's plays, prose, and photography to explore the cultural life of Edwardian Ireland.

Lady Gregory, Synge, Yeats, O'Casey and Myles na Gopaleen are among the poets, playwrights, critics, and authors treated in the book. The essays are written from both a personal and a scholarly perspective.

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