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The Irish story : telling tales and making it up in Ireland / R.F. Foster.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foster, R. F. (Robert Fitzroy), 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography--Ireland.
- Historiography.
- Storytelling--Ireland.
- Storytelling.
- Ireland--Historiography.
- Ireland.
- Ireland--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Roy Foster is one of the leaders of the iconoclastic generation of Irish historians. In this opinionated, entertaining book he examines how the Irish have written, understood, used, and misused their history over the past century. Varied, surprising, and funny, the interlinked essays examine the stories that people tell each other in Ireland and why, providing an unsparing view of the way Irish history has been manipulated. The Irish Story will essential reading for all who care about Irish history and literature.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London ; New York : Allen Lane, 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-266) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-803607-8
- 1-280-53434-6
- 1-60256-689-5
- OCLC:
- 646787613
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