The Irish Art of Controversy
1st Edition
Published on 5. July 2018
304 pages
978-1-5017-2869-3 (ISBN)
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Controversies are high drama: in them people speak lines as colorful and passionate as any recited on stage. In the years before the 1916 Rising, public battles were fought in Ireland over French paintings, a maverick priest, Dublin slum children, and.
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The Irish Art of Controversy
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Lucy McDiarmid is Professor of English at Villanova University. She has been the Carole and Gordon Segal Visiting Professor of Irish Literature at Northwestern University and Visiting Professor of English at Princeton. A former president of the American Conference for Irish Studies, McDiarmid is also author of Saving Civilization: Yeats, Eliot, and Auden between the Wars and Auden's Apologies for Poetry, and coeditor of High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture 1889-1939 and Lady Gregory: Selected Writings. She is a fellow of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library for 2005-2006.
Content
- Cover
- The Irish Art of Controversy
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Irish Controversy
- 1. Hugh Lane and the Decoration of Dublin, 1908-
- 2. The Man Who Died for the Language: Rev. Dr. O'Hickey and the Irish Language Controversy, 1908-9
- 3· The Shewing-up of Dublin Castle: Lady Gregory, Shaw, and Blanco Posnet, August 1909
- 4· Hunger and Hysteria: The "Save the Dublin Kiddies" Campaign, October-November 1913
- 5· The Afterlife of Roger Casement: Memory, Folklore, Ghosts, 1916-
- Epilogue: Controversy as "Heritage
- Chronologies of the Controversies
- Notes
- Sources
- Index
