About this book
INVENTING IRELAND is the most ambitious critical history of modernIrish literature to have been published for many years. DeclanKiberd argues that the Irish literary revival of the 1890-1922period embodied a spirit and a revolutionary, generous vision ofIrishness that is still relevant to post-colonial Ireland. Hedevelops his story through subtle and surprising readings of LadyGregory, Synge, O'Casey, Joyce, Beckett, Flann O'Brien, ElizabethBowen, Heaney, Friel and younger writers to Roddy Doyle.
Subjects
History and criticismEnglish literatureHistoryNationalism in literatureNationalismIrish literatureNational characteristics, Irish, in literatureIrish authorsIntellectual lifeRelationsLiterature and societyPolitics and literatureIn literatureNonfictionEnglish literature, irish authorsEnglish literature, history and criticism, 20th centuryIrish literature, history and criticismNational characteristics in literatureNationalism, irelandEnglish literature--irish authors--history and criticismEnglish literature--history and criticismEnglish literature--20th century--history and criticismIrish literature--history and criticismIrish literature--20th century--history and criticism