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Language: en
Pages: 726
Pages: 726
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 356
Pages: 356
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
The stories collected here demonstrates the richness of the short story tradition in Ireland from the end of the last century to the period following the Second
Language: en
Pages: 321
Pages: 321
Type: BOOK - Published: 1981-09-17 - Publisher: Penguin UK
First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and a
Language: en
Pages: 628
Pages: 628
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
'Can we not build up a national tradition, a national literature, which shall be none the less Irish in spirit from being English in language?' W. B. YeatsThis
Language: en
Pages: 289
Pages: 289
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-12 - Publisher: Routledge
'...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called ‘path breaking,’ ‘seminal,’ ‘essential,’ a ‘must read.’ How the Irish Became