A Short History of Ireland's Writers

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
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Author: Prof. A. Norman Jeffares, Muriel Bolger ISBN: 9781847176615
Publisher: The O'Brien Press Publication: September 1, 2014
Imprint: The O'Brien Press Language: English
Author: Prof. A. Norman Jeffares, Muriel Bolger
ISBN: 9781847176615
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
Publication: September 1, 2014
Imprint: The O'Brien Press
Language: English

An introduction to all the leading Irish writers and some of the lesser known playwrights, novelists, short story writers, poets, placing them in context and providing a list of their works. Commentaries give brief but telling insights into their work.

The story of Irish writing is followed, beginning with Swift, and working through playwrights Synge and O’Casey to Beckett and Friel; from nineteenth-century poetry through Yeats to Seamus Heaney and Paul Durcan; in novels, from Maria Edgeworth, through Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O’Brien, Flann O’Brien to contemporaries Julia O’Faolain, Roddy Doyle and Anne Enright.

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An introduction to all the leading Irish writers and some of the lesser known playwrights, novelists, short story writers, poets, placing them in context and providing a list of their works. Commentaries give brief but telling insights into their work.

The story of Irish writing is followed, beginning with Swift, and working through playwrights Synge and O’Casey to Beckett and Friel; from nineteenth-century poetry through Yeats to Seamus Heaney and Paul Durcan; in novels, from Maria Edgeworth, through Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O’Brien, Flann O’Brien to contemporaries Julia O’Faolain, Roddy Doyle and Anne Enright.

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