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The shattered worlds of Standish O'Grady : an Irish life in writing / Christopher Boettcher.
Van Pelt Library PR5112.O55 Z56 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boettcher, Christopher, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- O'Grady, Standish, 1846-1928.
- O'Grady, Standish.
- Authors, Irish.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- O'Grady, Standish, 1846-1928--Criticism and interpretation.
- Authors, Irish--19th century--Biography.
- Authors, Irish--19th century--Criticism and interpretation.
- Ireland--In literature.
- Ireland.
- Literature.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 207 pages ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Standish O'Grady
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin, Ireland ; Chicago, IL : Four Courts Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- A writer's life p. 9
- 1 A blaze of bardic light p. 18
- 'When Pears e summoned Cuchulain to his side ...' p. 18
- The Irish 'land of the dead' p. 20
- Standish James O'Grady, Esq. p. 25
- 'A confused and befogged state of mind' p. 31
- 'Arthur Clive' p. 36
- 2 Arthur Clives adventures in magazines p. 39
- Toward a theory of history p. 39
- Inventing Irish history p. 40
- The study of classics and Irish bardic storytelling p. 48
- A theory of history p. 55
- 3 Imagination and revision in the History of Ireland p. 61
- 'A sort of truth which is not true' p. 61
- The progress of the epic p. 67
- Druidic secrets veiled by time p. 75
- Shattered worlds p. 81
- 4 The father of the Irish literary revival p. 85
- The crisis in Ireland p. 85
- The Feudal feeling p. 91
- Young men with visions p. 95
- The 'bardic history' p. 100
- 5 All-Ireland p. 107
- Financial relations p. 107
- 'An address to friends' p. 113
- 'In celebration of masculine and heroic qualities' p. 116
- 'An original writer, with a strong native bias' p. 121
- 6 Self-reliance and leadership in Irish home industries p. 129
- 'So perfect a reflection of a personality' p. 129
- The question of questions p. 131
- 'Wider industrial heroism' p. 134
- 'We must put our house in order' p. 137
- The new chivalry p. 143
- 7 Agriculture, anarchism, and the devolution crisis p. 151
- Hydropathical experiences p. 151
- 'A remarkably clever and original book' p. 153
- Anarchism and nihilism p. 163
- 'The alphabet of our politics' p. 168
- 8 Estates of the New Order p. 172
- 'All politics are moonshine' p. 172
- 'And the way barred; and what then?' p. 176
- 'The destinies of the world' p. 181
- In the Garden City p. 185
- Trek! p. 189.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781846827853
- 184682785X
- OCLC:
- 1080081042
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