| Description |
xx, 281 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: London ; New York : Allen Lane, 2001. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-266) and index. |
| Contents |
The story of Ireland -- Theme-parks and histories -- "Colliding cultures" : Leland Lyons and the reinterpretation of Irish history -- Yeats at war : poetic strategies and political reconstruction -- "When the newspapers have forgotten me" : Yeats, obituarists, and Irishness -- The normal and the national : Yeats and the boundaries of Irish writing -- Square-built power and fiery shorthand : Yeats, Carleton, and the Irish nineteenth century -- Stopping the hunt : Trollope and the memory of Ireland -- Prints on the scene : Elizabeth Bowen an the landscape of childhood -- Selling Irish childhoods : Frank McCourt and Gerry Adams -- The salamander and the slap : Hubert Butler and his century -- Remembering 1798. |
| Subject |
Ireland -- Historiography.
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Historiography -- Ireland.
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Storytelling -- Ireland.
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Ireland -- History.
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| ISBN |
0195159020 (acid-free paper) |
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