Finding Ireland : a poet's explorations of Irish literature and culture /

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Author / Creator:Tillinghast, Richard.
Imprint:Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008.
Description:ix, 285 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7478523
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ISBN:9780268042325 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0268042322 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes index.
Table of Contents:
  • Finding Ireland
  • Letter from Galway, 1990
  • Letter from Dublin, 1998 : the Celtic tiger-- Letter from Dublin, 2005 : Wilde, Synge, and Orpen
  • Who were the Anglo-Irish?
  • The uneasy world of Somerville and Ross
  • Travels through Somerville and Ross's Ireland
  • The asymmetrical George Moore
  • Elizabeth Bowen : the house, the hotel, and the child
  • William Trevor : "they were as good as we were"
  • Listening to Irish traditional music
  • Flann O'Brien : no laughing matter
  • Brian Friel : transcending the Irish national pastime
  • Seamus Heaney's "middle voice"
  • Derek Mahon : exile and stranger
  • The future of Irish poetry?
  • Mount Stewart : its gardens, house, and family
  • W.B. Yeats : the labyrinth of another's being
  • Looking for Yeats in Yeats country
  • From Venice to Tipperary.