Apocryphal and literary influences on Galway diasporic history
By: by Gay Lynch
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781443825603
Subjects: Collective memory; Historiography; Intertextuality; History and criticism; Australian literature; Irish; Literatur; Kollektives Gedächtnis; Emigration and immigration; Emigration and immigration in literature; Irish in literature
Notes: A critical examination of the author's novel, Unsettled, in the context of other apocryphal stories about the Irish in Australia.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1: The magistrate of Galway; title: Chapter 2: Edward Geoghegan and The Hibernian father (1844); title: Chapter 3: Apocryphal stories generated by the wreck of the Admella (1859); title: Chapter 4: Apocryphal stories in historical fiction: Kate Grenville's The secret river (2005) and Searching for the secret river (2006); title: Chapter 5: Architextuality, genre, the Australian fiction tradition.