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Book 1995
Inventing Ireland
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- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Nationalism in literature.
- Ireland -- In literature.
- Ireland -- Relations -- England.
- England -- Relations -- Ireland.
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.