Inventing Ireland

The Literature of a Modern Nation

By: Declan Kiberd

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Paperback | 10 January 1997 | Edition Number 1

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INVENTING IRELAND is the most ambitious critical history of modern Irish literature to have been published for many years. Declan Kiberd argues that the Irish literary revival of the 1890-1922 period embodied a spirit and a revolutionary, generous vision of Irishness that is still relevant to post-colonial Ireland. He develops his story through subtle and surprising readings of Lady Gregory, Synge, O'Casey, Joyce, Beckett, Flann O'Brien, Elizabeth Bowen, Heaney, Friel and younger writers to Roddy Doyle.

Kiberd - one of Ireland's leading critics and a central figure in the FIELD DAY group with Brian Friel, Seamus Deane and the actor Stephen Rea - argues that the Irish Literary Revival of the 1890-1922 period embodied a spirit and a revolutionary, generous vision of Irishness that is still relevant to post-colonial Ireland. This is the perspective from which he views Irish culture. His history of Irish writing covers Yeats, Lady Gregory, Synge, O'Casey, Joyce, Beckett, Flann O'Brien, Elizabeth Bowen, Heaney, Friel and younger writers down to Roddy Doyle.

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"A masterpiece...Kiberd is surely the finest critic of Irish literature." -- Owen Dudley Edwards * Scotsman * "A critical study laced with wit, energy and unrelenting adroitness of discourse...A remarkable achievement." -- Thomas Flanagan * New York Times * "Provocative, contentious, sly, tendentious, challenging, witty...A resounding success." -- Gerry Dukes * Irish Independent * "Blessedly jargon-free, easy to read and - like all of Kilberd's work - full of bravura cleverness." -- Roy Foster * The Times *

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
A New England Called Ireland?
Ireland--England's Unconscious? Interchapter
Oscar Wilde--The Artist as Irishman
John Bull's Other Islander--Bernard Shaw
Anglo-Ireland: The Woman's Part Interchapter
Tragedies of Manners--Somerville and Ross
Lady Gregory and the Empire Boys
Yeats: Looking Into the Lion's Face Interchapter
Childhood and Ireland
The National Longing for Form
Return to the Source? Interchapter
Deanglicization
Nationality or Cosmopolitanism?
J. M. Synge--Remembering the Future
Revolution and War Interchapter
Uprising
The Plebeians Revise the Uprising
The Great War and Irish Memory
Worlds Apart?
Ireland and the End of Empire
Inventing Irelands Interchapter
Writing Ireland, Reading England
Inventing Irelands
Revolt Into Style--Yeatsian Poetics
The Last Aisling--A Vision
James Joyce and Mythic Realism
Sexual Politics Interchapter
Elizabeth Bowen--The Dandy in Revolt
Fathers and Sons
Mothers and Daughters
Protestant Revivals Interchapter
Protholics and Cathestants
Saint Joan--Fabian Feminist, Protestant Mystic
The Winding Stair
Religious Writing: Beckett and Others
Underdevelopment Interchapter
The Periphery and the Centre
Flann O'Brien, Myles, and The Poor Mouth
The Empire Writes Back--Brendan Behan
Beckett's Texts of Laughter and Forgetting
Post-Colonial Ireland--"A Quaking Sod"
Recovery and Renewal Interchapter
Under Pressure--The Writer and Society 1960-90
Friel Translating
Translating Tradition
Reinventing Ireland
Imagining Irish Studies
Notes
Index
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