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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821012403321

Titolo

Irelands of the mind : memory and identity in modern Irish culture / / edited by Richard C. Allen and Stephen Regan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, UK, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008

ISBN

1-282-03583-5

9786612035838

1-4438-0442-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AllenRichard C

ReganStephen <1957->

Disciplina

306.4/209415

Soggetti

Group identity - Ireland

Collective memory - Ireland

English literature - Irish authors - History and criticism

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Arts, Irish - 19th century

Arts, Irish - 20th century

Ireland Civilization 19th century

Ireland Civilization 20th century

Ireland In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Irelands of the Mind: Memory and Identity in Modern Irish Culture offers a compelling series of essays on changing images of Ireland from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It seeks to understand the various ways in which Ireland has been thought about, not only in fiction, poetry and drama, but in travel writing and tourist brochures,



nineteenth-century newspapers, radio talk shows, film adaptations of fictional works, and the music and songs of Van Morrison and SineĢad O'Connor. The ...