The Irish story
Subtitle: telling tales and making it up in Ireland
By: R.F. Foster.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford, [U.K.]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Historiography -- Ireland; Storytelling -- Ireland; Ireland -- Historiography; Ireland -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-266) and index.
Originally published: London ; New York : Allen Lane, 2001.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 The Story of Ireland; title: 2 Theme-parks and Histories 23; title: 3 'Colliding Cultures': Leland Lyons and the Reinterpretation of Irish History 37; title: 4 Yeats at War: Poetic Strategies and Political Reconstruction 58; title: 5 'When the Newspapers Have Forgotten Me': Yeats, Obituarists and Irishness 80; title: 6 The Normal and the National: Yeats and the Boundaries of Irish Writing 95; title: 7 Square-built Power and Fiery Shorthand: Yeats, Carleton and the Irish Nineteenth Century 113; title: 8 Stopping the Hunt: Trollope and the Memory of Ireland 127; title: 9 Prints on the Scene: Elizabeth Bowen and the Landscape of Childhood 148; title: 10 Selling Irish Childhoods:' Frank McCourt and Gerry Adams 164; title: 11 The Salamander and the Slap: Hubert Butler and His Century 187; title: 12 Remembering 1798 zII.