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Finding Ireland : a poet's explorations of Irish literature and culture / Richard Tillinghast.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tillinghast, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literary landmarks--Ireland.
- Literary landmarks.
- Authors, Irish--Homes and haunts--Ireland.
- Authors, Irish.
- English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Ireland--Intellectual life.
- Ireland.
- Ireland--Description and travel.
- Tillinghast, Richard--Travel--Ireland.
- Tillinghast, Richard.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Richard Tillinghast writes vividly and evocatively about the land and people of his adopted home, its culture, its literature, and its long, complex history.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780268093709
- 0268093709
- OCLC:
- 694145912
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