Irish Literature and Language (Irish Studies)

Essays on Irish culture in a historical context, exploring cultural and theoretical debates.

Aims "to show how literature has been inescapably allied with historical interpretation and with political allegiance." Emphasizes literature in English, and the "revivals and collapses" of a body of literature "centred upon an idea of Ireland."

Essays on writers and genres of modern poetry and fiction.

In over 2,000 entries, the Companion to Irish Literature surveys the Irish literary landscape across some sixteen centuries, describing its features and landmarks.Entries range from ogham writing, developed in the 4th century, to the fiction, poetry, and drama of the l990s.The majority of entries include a succinct bibliography, and the volume also provides a chronology and maps.

The survey of Irish literature in this two-volume set begins in the sixth century, with essays on literature in Irish and English and their interrelationships. Volume 1 goes to 1890, and volume 2 covers 1890-2000. The detailed chronology offers scholars the ability to verify information on specific authors and titles.

This text addresses topics such as: debates within the Gaelic literary movement in the new state; the Gaelic author and the heroic tradition; relationships between Gaelic and English language literature; and Gaelic drama. Philip O'Leary fills a large gap and will raise scholarly awareness of a major neglected aspect of the Irish cultural renaissance. The many quotations from the works discussed have been translated into English by the author, with the original Irish versions provided in the notes.

Offers concise and current information on Irish literature in three categories: significant writers, from the 7th century to contemporary poets and novelists; major literary works of quality and influence; and places and institutions that have helped shape Irleand's literary heritage.

This text examines the links between high art and popular culture in the decades surrounding independence.
Declan Kiberd offers a vivid account of the personalities and texts, English and Irish alike, that reinvented the country after centuries of colonialism.

This text examines the genesis and politicization of the late-nineteenth century Gaelic Literary Revival, which he dates from the 1881 publication of An Gaodhal to the 1916 Easter Rising. This book also presents the lively debates within the language movement in their full complexity, citing documents such as editorials, columns, speeches, letters, and literary works that were influential at the time but all too often were published only in Irish or were difficult to access.

Based on literature in Irish. Forty-four chapters range from a discussion of the reliability of sources to Irish as a spoken language.

Dictionary format, in two volumes.
A substantial number of entries discuss earlier authors who were omitted from the first edition. Introductory material discusses the principal themes of Irish writing, the history of Irish writing in English, and literature written in the Irish language.

Ryan examines the literary revival and re-emergence of Irish, spanning from the 1636 completion of The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland from the Flood until the Death of Hugh O'Neill through Hyde's death in the middle of the twentieth century.

In To Ireland, I, the Clarendon Lectures in English 1998, Paul Muldoon produces a firework display of scholarship, wit, and intrigue, in an idiosyncratic wander through the alphabet of Irish literature. From a mischievous beginning in Amergin-the first poet of Ireland-Muldoon forges link afterlink between the disparate and the unlikely, until modernists and medievalists appear as congenial neighbours on the half-lit, literary streets of Ireland.

Multiliterate Ireland examines a selection of Irish literature to illuminate a legacy of a multilingual history, demonstrated through works that range from past centuries to the present era. This study examines authors who utilized two or more languages in the same poem, play, or work of fiction, also known as "code-mixing" and "code-switching," of primarily English and Irish Gaelic languages.

This book seeks to address this question by firstly locating revivalism within the broader history of ideas and, secondly, undertaking a conceptual case study of revivalism within Modern Irish literature.

This book elucidates the ways the pained and suffering body has been registered and mobilized in specifically Irish contexts across more than four hundred years of literature and culture. This collection offers new paradigms for understanding Ireland's literary and cultural history.

This text affords and accounts for different interpretations of the Irish bardic tradition of poetry through close textual analysis. Primarily in English, aside from source material.

This text traces the roots of Irish literature in myth and legend and explores ancient and pre-Celtic deposits and remembrances; saga literature, as well as devotional writing; the bardic heritage and the cycles of tales of early Ireland; the importance and survival of folklore; and the later phases of Irish literature, from the seventeenth century onwards. Welch frames his study around themes and clusters rather than chronology, seeking to retain coherence by means of a sustained attention to the thematic strains.

Text in Irish, with some English. This text accounts for the literary and historical usage of the Irish language with an international scope.

Text in Irish. Offers a historical overview of aesthetic and cultural concepts in Ireland over time.