
Irelands of the Mind
Memory and Identity in Modern Irish Culture
Richard C. Allen(Author)
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published on 14. March 2008
Book
Hardback
235 pages
978-1-84718-422-1 (ISBN)
Description
Irelands of the Mind: Memory and Identity in Modern Irish Culture offers a compelling series of essays on changing images of Ireland from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It seeks to understand the various ways in which Ireland has been thought about, not only in fiction, poetry and drama, but in travel writing and tourist brochures, nineteenth-century newspapers, radio talk shows, film adaptations of fictional works, and the music and songs of Van Morrison and Sinead O'Connor. The prevailing theme throughout the twelve essays that constitute the book is the complicated sense of belonging that continues to characterise so much of modern Irish culture. Questions of nationhood and national identity are given a new and invigorated treatment in the context of a rapidly changing Ireland and a changing set of intellectual methods and approaches.
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Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Newcastle upon Tyne
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84718-422-1 (9781847184221)
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Persons
Richard C. Allen is Head of History at the University of Wales, Newport, and was formerly Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor of British History (2006-7) at Westminster College, Missouri. His most recent published work is Quaker Communities in Early Modern Wales: From Resistance to Respectability (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007). Stephen Regan is Professor of English at the University of Durham. He is the editor of Irish Writing 1789-1939: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).