
After Ireland
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He describes the young Samuel Beckett witnessing the burning of Dublin in 1916 and realising that 'the birth of a nation might also seal its doom.' Surveying thirty works by modern Irish writers, Kiberd traces the response to the crisis of Irish Statehood in the work of Seamus Heaney, Edna O'Brien, Joseph O'Connor, Tom Murphy, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Derek Mahon and John Banville, among others. Placing these writers at the centre of Ireland's on-going exploration of the true meaning of freedom, Kiberd shows how Irish artists preserve and extend a humane culture that imagines a renewed, more plural and open nation.
Kiberd's Inventing Ireland, originally published in 1995 is a dazzlingly ambitious critical history of modern Irish literature and the standard work on the Irish Literary Revival. In After Ireland, Kiberd responds to the next generation of Irish writers, in this second renaissance of Irish literature.
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- Intro
- Welcome Page
- About After Ireland
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Epigraph
- 1. Introduction: After Ireland?
- 2. Beckett's Inner Exile
- A Neutral Ireland?
- 3. 'Gaeldom is Over': The Bell
- 4. A Talking Corpse? Sáirséal agus Dill
- 5. A Parrot in Ringsend: Máire Mhac an tSaoi
- 6. Growing Up Absurd: Edna O'Brien and The Country Girls
- 7. Frank O'Connor: A Mammy's Boy
- Secularization
- 8. Richard Power and The Hungry Grass
- Emigration
- 9. Emigration Once Again: Friel's Philadelphia
- Northern Troubles
- 10. Seamus Heaney: The Death of Ritual and the Ritual of Death
- Europeanization
- 11. The Art of Science: Banville's Doctor Copernicus
- 12. The Double Vision of Michael Hartnett
- 13. Brian Friel's Faith Healer
- 14. Theatre as Opera: The Gigli Concert
- 15. Frank McGuinness and Observe the Sons
- 16. Derek Mahon's Lost Worlds
- Irish Language
- 17. Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill: Pharaoh's Daughter
- Women's Movement
- 18. Eavan Boland: Outside History
- 19. John McGahern's Amongst Women
- 20. Between First and Third World: Friel's Lughnasa
- 21. Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
- Peace Comes Dropping Slow
- 22. Seamus Deane: Reading in the Dark
- 23. Reading Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
- 24. Making History: Joseph O'Connor
- 25. Fallen Nobility: McGahern's Rising Sun
- 26. Conor McPherson: The Seafarer
- 27. Claire Keegan: Foster
- 28. Kate Thompson and The New Policeman
- 29. Conclusion: Going Global?
- Notes
- 1. Introduction: After Ireland?
- 2. Beckett's Inner Exile
- Interchapter: A Neutral Ireland?
- 3. 'Gaeldom is Over': The Bell
- 4. A Talking Corpse? Sáirséal agus Dill
- 5. A Parrot in Ringsend: Máire Mhac an tSaoi
- 6. Growing Up Absurd: Edna O'Brien and The Country Girls
- 7. Frank O'Connor: A Mammy's Boy
- 8. Richard Power and The Hungry Grass
- 9. Emigration Once Again: Friel's Philadelphia
- 10. Seamus Heaney: The Death of Ritual and the Ritual of Death
- 11. The Art of Science: Banville's Doctor Copernicus
- 12. The Double Vision of Michael Hartnett
- 13. Brian Friel's Faith Healer
- 14. Theatre as Opera: The Gigli Concert
- 15. Frank McGuinness and Observe the Sons
- 16. Derek Mahon's Lost Worlds
- 17. Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill: Pharaoh's Daughter
- 18. Eavan Boland: Outside History
- 19. John McGahern's Amongst Women
- 20. Between First and Third World: Friel's Lughnasa
- 21. Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
- 22. Seamus Deane: Reading in the Dark
- 23. Reading Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
- 24. Making History: Joseph O'Connor
- 25. Fallen Nobility: McGahern's Rising Sun
- 26. Conor McPherson: The Seafarer
- 27. Claire Keegan: Foster
- 28. Kate Thompson and The New Policeman
- 29. Conclusion: Going Global?
- Index
- About Declan Kiberd
- An Invitation from the Publisher
- Copyright
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