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Inventing Ireland

The Literature of a Modern Nation

by Declan Kiberd ...

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 ... Read more

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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
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England and Eternity

A Book of Cricket

by Declan Kiberd ...

A teasing but affectionate celebration of cricket through the ages, written by one of Ireland's greatest living critics.Cricket is the strangest game. It features idealism, brutality, low comedy, high intelligence, luck and sheer bravery in equal measure – and often achieves the condition of art.Declan Kiberd's remarkable book is a celebration of cricket through the ages, and of the peculiarities ... Read more

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A teasing but affectionate celebration of cricket through the ages, written by one of Ireland's greatest living critics.Cricket is the strangest game. It features idealism, brutality, low comedy, high intelligence, luck and sheer bravery in equal measure – and often achieves the condition of art.Declan Kiberd's remarkable book is a celebration of cricket through the ages, and of the peculiarities
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Ulysses and Us

The Art of Everyday Living

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In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life under the dreadful pressures of the modern world. As much a guide to contemporary life as it is virtuoso work of literary criticism, Ulysses and Us offers revolutionary insights to the scholar and the first-time reader alike.Leopold Bloom, the half-Jewish Irishman who is the ... Read more

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In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life under the dreadful pressures of the modern world. As much a guide to contemporary life as it is virtuoso work of literary criticism, Ulysses and Us offers revolutionary insights to the scholar and the first-time reader alike.Leopold Bloom, the half-Jewish Irishman who is the
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Ulysses

The 1922 Text

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For Joyce, literature is 'the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. An undisputed modernist classic, its ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishing wide-ranging allusions confirm its standing as an imperishable monument to the human condition.A new edition of one of the twentieth ... Read more

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For Joyce, literature is 'the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. An undisputed modernist classic, its ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishing wide-ranging allusions confirm its standing as an imperishable monument to the human condition.A new edition of one of the twentieth
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After Ireland

Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present

by Declan Kiberd ...

Ireland is suffering from a crisis of authority. Catholic Church scandals, political corruption, and economic collapse have shaken the Irish people’s faith in their institutions and thrown the nation’s struggle for independence into question. While Declan Kiberd explores how political failures and economic globalization have eroded Irish sovereignty, he also sees a way out of this crisis. After ... Read more

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Ireland is suffering from a crisis of authority. Catholic Church scandals, political corruption, and economic collapse have shaken the Irish people’s faith in their institutions and thrown the nation’s struggle for independence into question. While Declan Kiberd explores how political failures and economic globalization have eroded Irish sovereignty, he also sees a way out of this crisis. After
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The Book About Everything

Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses

Edited by Declan Kiberd, Catherine Wilsdon, Professor Enrico Terrinoni ...

To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text.Each essayist is an expert in one of the subjects treated in the novel, but what brings them together is a common love of Ulysses.Joseph O'Connor considers the music-saturated Sirens ... Read more

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To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text.Each essayist is an expert in one of the subjects treated in the novel, but what brings them together is a common love of Ulysses.Joseph O'Connor considers the music-saturated Sirens
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Ulysses

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‘It is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape’ T. S. EliotFollowing the events of one single day in Dublin, 16 June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, Ulysses has been censored, attacked, and deemed profoundly subversive and blasphemous. Ceaselessly inventive, hilarious, garrulous, sorrowful, vulgar, ... Read more

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‘It is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape’ T. S. EliotFollowing the events of one single day in Dublin, 16 June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, Ulysses has been censored, attacked, and deemed profoundly subversive and blasphemous. Ceaselessly inventive, hilarious, garrulous, sorrowful, vulgar,
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From Enlightenment to Rebellion

Essays in Honor of Christopher Fox

by Paul William Child, Aedín Ní Bhróithe Clements, Carole Fabricant, Declan Kiberd, Mary McAleese, Patrick McCabe, Barry McCrae, Joseph McMinn, Peter McQuillan, Kurt Edward Milberger, Amy C. Mulligan, Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, Diarmuid Ó Giolláin, Dirk Friedrich Paßmann, Hermann Josef Real, John Sitter, Jim Smyth ...

This book is a collection of essays and a short story written to honor Christopher Fox of Notre Dame, arguably the most influential figure in Irish Studies for the past quarter century. The essays address topics in which Professor Fox has made his own enduring scholarly contributions, and subjects to which he has made enduring contributions through his academic leadership, from the development of ... Read more

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This book is a collection of essays and a short story written to honor Christopher Fox of Notre Dame, arguably the most influential figure in Irish Studies for the past quarter century. The essays address topics in which Professor Fox has made his own enduring scholarly contributions, and subjects to which he has made enduring contributions through his academic leadership, from the development of
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Ulysses

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Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Patrick Gibson, known for his roles in The OA, The Tudors and The Passing Bells. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Declan Kiberd'Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century' Anthony Burgess, ObserverFollowing the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th June 1904, and what happens to th ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Patrick Gibson, known for his roles in The OA, The Tudors and The Passing Bells. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Declan Kiberd'Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century' Anthony Burgess, ObserverFollowing the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th June 1904, and what happens to th
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Dubliners

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Behind every ordinary street in Dublin lies a story of longing, struggle, and quiet revelation. Dubliners (1914), by James Joyce, is a landmark collection of short stories that captures the spirit, struggles, and hidden depths of early 20th-century Dublin. Through fifteen finely crafted tales, Joyce introduces readers to priests, workers, dreamers, and families caught between tradition and change. ... Read more

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Behind every ordinary street in Dublin lies a story of longing, struggle, and quiet revelation. Dubliners (1914), by James Joyce, is a landmark collection of short stories that captures the spirit, struggles, and hidden depths of early 20th-century Dublin. Through fifteen finely crafted tales, Joyce introduces readers to priests, workers, dreamers, and families caught between tradition and change.
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A Little History of Literature

by John Sutherland, John ...

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A much-loved author brings the world of literature alive for all agesThis 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task. He has researched, taught, and written on virtually every area of literature, and his infectious passion for books and ... Read more

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A much-loved author brings the world of literature alive for all agesThis 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task. He has researched, taught, and written on virtually every area of literature, and his infectious passion for books and
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The Secret Life of Plays

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A guide to the hidden workings of plays and the trade secrets that govern their writing - by the acclaimed playwright Steve Waters.Drawing on a wide range of drama, both historical and modern, Waters takes the reader through the key elements of dramatic writing – scenes, acts, space, time, characters, language and images – to show how a play is more than the sum of its parts, with as much inner ... Read more

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A guide to the hidden workings of plays and the trade secrets that govern their writing - by the acclaimed playwright Steve Waters.Drawing on a wide range of drama, both historical and modern, Waters takes the reader through the key elements of dramatic writing – scenes, acts, space, time, characters, language and images – to show how a play is more than the sum of its parts, with as much inner
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