num_pages: 624
description: This anthology traces the history of modern Irish literature from the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century to the early years of political independence. It covers 150 years, from the writings of Charlotte Brooke and Edmund Burke to those of Elizabeth Bowen and Louis MacNeice, andit shows how these writings continually challenge and renew the ways in which Ireland is imagined and defined. The anthology includes a wide-ranging and generous selection of fiction, poetry, and drama. Three plays by W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory, and J.M. Synge are printed in their entirety, alongwith the opening episode of James Joyce's Ulysses .The volume also includes letters, speeches, songs, memoirs, essays, and travel writings, many of which are difficult to obtain elsewhere.
language: English
title: Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939
titlecomplete: Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939 (Oxford World's Classics)
genres: Irish Literature, School
ratings_count: 43
publisher: Oxford University Press