An edition of The Irish story (2001)

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telling tales and making it up in Ireland

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An edition of The Irish story (2001)

The Irish story

telling tales and making it up in Ireland

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English
Pages
281

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Cover of: The Irish story
The Irish story: telling tales and making it up in Ireland
2002, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: Irish story
Irish story: telling tales and making it up in Ireland
2001, Allen Lane
in English

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1 The Story of Ireland
2 Theme-parks and Histories 23
3 'Colliding Cultures': Leland Lyons and the Reinterpretation of Irish History 37
4 Yeats at War: Poetic Strategies and Political Reconstruction 58
5 'When the Newspapers Have Forgotten Me': Yeats, Obituarists and Irishness 80
6 The Normal and the National: Yeats and the Boundaries of Irish Writing 95
7 Square-built Power and Fiery Shorthand: Yeats, Carleton and the Irish Nineteenth Century 113
8 Stopping the Hunt: Trollope and the Memory of Ireland 127
9 Prints on the Scene: Elizabeth Bowen and the Landscape of Childhood 148
10 Selling Irish Childhoods:' Frank McCourt and Gerry Adams 164
11 The Salamander and the Slap: Hubert Butler and His Century 187
12 Remembering 1798 zII.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-266) and index.
Originally published: London ; New York : Allen Lane, 2001.

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Oxford, [U.K.], New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
941.5/007/2
Library of Congress
DA908 .F66 2002, DA908.F66 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 281 p. ;
Number of pages
281

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3562879M
Internet Archive
irishstorytellin00rffo
ISBN 10
0195159020
LCCN
2002030770
OCLC/WorldCat
50447588
Library Thing
340256
Goodreads
2430930

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