The Books That Define Ireland
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The Books That Define Ireland

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The Books That Define Ireland

About this book

This engaging and provocative work consists of 29 chapters and discusses over 50 books that have been instrumental in the development of Irish social and political thought since the early seventeenth century. Steering clear of traditionally canonical Irish literature, Bryan Fanning and Tom Garvin debate the significance of their chosen texts and explore the impact, reception, controversy, debates and arguments that followed publication.

Fanning and Garvin present these seminal books in an impelling dialogue with one another, highlighting the manner in which individual writers informed each other s opinions at the same time as they were being amassed within the public consciousness.

From Jonathan Swift s savage indignation to Flann O'Brien s disintegrative satire, this book provides a fascinating discussion of how key Irish writers affected the life of their country by upholding or tearing down those matters held close to the heart, identity and habits of the Irish nation.

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Information

Publisher
Merrion Press
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781908928528
eBook ISBN
9781908928672
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Irish History
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. 1 Irish Arguments
  6. 2 Geoffrey Keating, Foras Feasa ar Éirinn/The History of Ireland (1634)
  7. 3 William Molyneux, The Case of Ireland’s being bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated (1698)
  8. 4 Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal (1729)
  9. 5 Andrew Dunleavy, The Catechism of Christian Doctrine (1742)
  10. 6 William Theobald Wolfe Tone (ed.), The Autobiography of Wolfe Tone (1826)
  11. 7 John Mitchel, The Jail Journal (1861)
  12. 8 Horace Plunkett, Ireland in the New Century (1904); Michael O’Riordan, Catholicity and Progress in Ireland (1905)
  13. 9 James Connolly, Labour in Irish History (1910)
  14. 10 Patrick A. Sheehan, The Graves at Kilmorna (1913)
  15. 11 Desmond Ryan (ed.), Collected Works of Padraic H. Pearse (1917)
  16. 12 Daniel Corkery, The Hidden Ireland (1924)
  17. 13 P.S. O’Hegarty, The Victory of Sinn Fein: How it Won It and How it Used It (1924)
  18. 14 Tomás O Criomhthain, An tOileánach/The Islandman (1929)
  19. 15 Frank O’Connor, Guests of the Nation (1931)
  20. 16 Sean O’Faoláin, King of the Beggars (1938)
  21. 17 Flann O’Brien, At Swim-two-Birds (1939)
  22. 18 James Kavanagh, Manual of Social Ethics (1954)
  23. 19 Paul Blanshard, The Irish and Catholic Power: An American Interpretation (1954)
  24. 20 Michael Sheehy, Divided We Stand (1955)
  25. 21 Edna O’Brien, The Country Girls (1960); John McGahern, The Dark (1965)
  26. 22 Cecil Woodham-Smith, The Great Hunger (1962)
  27. 23 Conor Cruise O’Brien, States of Ireland (1972)
  28. 24 A.T.Q. Stewart, The Narrow Ground (1977)
  29. 25 C.S. Andrews, Dublin Made Me (1979)
  30. 26 Nell McCafferty, A Woman to Blame: The Kerry Babies Case (1985)
  31. 27 Noel Browne, Against the Tide (1986)
  32. 28 Fintan O’Toole, Meanwhile Back at the Ranch: The Politics of Irish Beef (1995)
  33. 29 Mary Raftery and Eoin O’Sullivan, Suffer the Little Children: The Inside Story of Ireland’s Industrial Schools (1999)
  34. 30 Elaine A. Byrne, Political Corruption in Ireland: A Crooked Harp? (2012)
  35. Publishing References
  36. Index