| Description |
ix, 285 pages ; 23 cm |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Finding Ireland -- Letter from Galway, 1990 -- Letter from Dublin, 1998 : the Celtic tiger-- Letter from Dublin, 2005 : Wilde, Synge, and Orpen -- Who were the Anglo-Irish? -- The uneasy world of Somerville and Ross -- Travels through Somerville and Ross's Ireland -- The asymmetrical George Moore -- Elizabeth Bowen : the house, the hotel, and the child -- William Trevor : "they were as good as we were" -- Listening to Irish traditional music -- Flann O'Brien : no laughing matter -- Brian Friel : transcending the Irish national pastime -- Seamus Heaney's "middle voice" -- Derek Mahon : exile and stranger -- The future of Irish poetry? -- Mount Stewart : its gardens, house, and family -- W.B. Yeats : the labyrinth of another's being -- Looking for Yeats in Yeats country -- From Venice to Tipperary. |
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Literary landmarks -- Ireland.
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Authors, Irish -- Homes and haunts -- Ireland.
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English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
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Ireland -- Intellectual life.
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Tillinghast, Richard -- Travel -- Ireland.
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Ireland -- Description and travel.
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| ISBN |
9780268042325 paperback alkaline paper |
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0268042322 paperback alkaline paper |
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