This collection of essays views Irish culture from the 18th century to the end of the 20th century. Among the writers are Bishop Berkeley, Thomas Moore, Oliver Goldsmith, Maria Edgeworth, W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett and Kate O'Brien. Also included are a number of neglected Irish writers such as William Dunkin, John Toland, Frederick Ryan, "Father Prout", and George Birmingham. The topics range from 18th-century satire and sentimentalism to the modern Irish novel, the carnivalesque in early 19th-century Cork to the philosophy of Tolan and Berkeley. The book concludes with an intervention into the ongoing debate surrounding revisionism in Irish studies.
- ISBN10 0268008329
- ISBN13 9780268008321
- Publish Date 1 January 1999 (first published 1 January 1998)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 1 April 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Edition 2nd ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 355
- Language English