There you are
Subtitle: writings on Irish and American literature and history
By: Thomas Flanagan ; edited and with an introduction by Christopher Cahill ; preface by Seamus Heaney.
Publisher: New York Review Books; Distributed by Publishers Group West; Brand: New York Review Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
Description: "In the nonfiction writings collected here, many of them unpublished in his lifetime, Thomas Flanagan brings what Christopher Cahill calls his "keen eye and strong gaze and sharp tongue" to reassessments of key figures of Irish culture. They range from Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Lord Edward Fitzgerald, through W.B. Yeats and James Joyce, Charles Stewart Parnell and Michael Collins, to contemporaries and friends like Brian Moore and Frank O'Connor, and American Irish like the Molly Maguires and the director John Ford."

"Flanagan probes the tragically intertwined origins of celebrity and literary modernism in the careers of Irish-American writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill, and John O'Hara. He reflects on what his own novels have taught him about the possibilities of historical fiction. And his thoughts on Irish-American identity sum up the long-pondered mixture of experience and scrutiny he brought to his heritage."--Jacket.