Working in Cork Everyday life in Irish Steel, Sunbeam-Wolsey and the Ford Marina Plant, 1917-2001 / Liam Cullinane.F

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cullinane, Liam, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Steel industry and trade--Ireland--Cork--History--20th century.

Steel industry and trade.

Iron and steel workers--Ireland--Cork.

Iron and steel workers.

Automobile industry and trade--Ireland--Cork--History--20th century.

Automobile industry and trade.

Automobile industry workers--Ireland--Cork.

Automobile industry workers.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : Cork University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"The book is arranged into sections by place, in order to best describe Devlin's life and diplomatic career: Paris, Dublin, Washington, London and Rome. Devlin's 1930s letters show his efforts to enter and energise literary society in Dublin, his subsequent disillusionment with the state of the arts in a newly independent Ireland, his struggle to find employment, and his wavering between academia and a career as a diplomat. The letters to Thomas MacGreevy, in particular, are replete with critical reflections on Devlin's own work and the poetry of his time. In wartime Washington Devlin forms lasting friendships with the most influential American poet-critics of the time, Allen Tate and Robert Penn Warren, and begins work on translations from the poems of exiled French poet-diplomat Alexis Leger, a project partly conducted through correspondence. In his final decade in Rome international poetry networks are cultivated, notably that surrounding Princess Marguerite Caetani and her magazine Botteghe Oscure. These letters reveal the pleasures and insecurities of diplomatic life, and the difficulties in conducting an active creative life in tandem. Following Devlin's death in 1959, the edition concludes with a "coda" of letters from his wife Caren concerning the foundation of the Denis Devlin Memorial Award"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Maps, Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Narrators

Introduction

1. 'The towering giant of the Irish automotive industry': The Ford Marina plant, 1917-84

2. 'Giving the nation socks': Sunbeam Wolsey, 1927-90

3. 'Endeavour, struggle and survival': Irish Steel, 1939-2001

4. Working for Fords, 1917-84

5. Working for Sunbeam Wolsey, 1927-90

6. Working for Irish Steel, 1939-2001

7. Employment, Inequality and Emigration

8. Gender, Status and Resistance

Conclusion

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index

Backcover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782054153

1782054154

9781782054146

1782054146

9781782054139

1782054138

OCLC:

1200808927