The Ireland anthology
By: edited by Seán Dunne ; introduction and notes by George O'Brien.
Contributors: Dunne, Seán, 1956-; O'Brien, George, 1945-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
Subjects: English literature -- Irish authors; Ireland -- Literary collections; Ireland -- In literature; Ireland -- History
Description: The Ireland Anthology is the most ambitious one-volume anthology of Irish prose and poetry to appear in over thirty years. There are more than 200 separate entries, drawn from indigenous authors as well as from those who have visited the country, and covering the whole span of written Irish history. As a result, works by Jonathan Swift, Maria Edgeworth and W. B.

Yeats are represented alongside authors as diverse as the medieval Welsh monk Giraldus Cambrensis, the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser, and the French dandy Chevalier de La Tocnaye. There are also extracts from the works of distinguished contemporary writers like Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland and Colm Tolbin.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain by Gill & Macmillan Ltd."--T.p. verso.
Includes index.