Record Nr.

UNINA9910973625003321

Autore

Tillinghast Richard

Titolo

Finding Ireland : a poet's explorations of Irish literature and culture / / Richard Tillinghast

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008

ISBN

9780268093709

0268093709

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/9415

Soggetti

Literary landmarks - Ireland

Authors, Irish - Homes and haunts - Ireland

English literature - Irish authors - History and criticism

Ireland Intellectual life

Ireland Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Richard Tillinghast writes vividly and evocatively about the land and people of his adopted home, its culture, its literature, and its long, complex history.