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Binding: pb
Pages: 168
Size: 177x110 mm
ISBN-10 0-86278-502-2
ISBN-13 978-0-86278-502-4
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Since Irish writers first began to write in English, their presence on the stage of world literature has been astonishing, their achievements culminating in the awarding of four Nobel Prizes for Literature - to Yeats, Shaw, Beckett and Heaney.
In A Pocket of Irish Literature Professor Jeffares traces the long and noble list of Irish dramatists, poets, novelists and short story writers from Swift to the end of the twentieth century.
The story of Irish writing is followed, beginning with Jonathan Swift, and working through playwrights Synge and O'Casey to Beckett and Friel; in novels, from Maria Edgeworth, through James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O'Brien, Flann O'Brien, to contemporaries Julia O' Faolain and Roddy Doyle; from nineteenth-century poetry through Yeats to Paul Durcan.
All the leading writers, and some of the lesser known, are placed in context, and their works listed, while commentary provides brief but telling insights into their work and lives.
A readable, accessible overview of Irish literary achievement through the centuries.
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