Irish literature exists in two languages. A dual approach is necessary if the tradition, with its historical, political and semantic tensions is to be understood and appreciated. This text presents the two traditions of Irish poetry - Gaelic and English - and their connections. Poetry is Ireland is presented from the earliest times to the present day, concentrating on periods of radical change: the coming of Christianity; Norman and later settlements; colonialism and dispossession; the end of the bardic period; politics before the Famine and in the 19th and 20th centuries. The book includes Yeats and Joyce and considers in detail the work of Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh and Samuel Beckett.
- ISBN10 1857541820
- ISBN13 9781857541823
- Publish Date 18 May 1995
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 30 August 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 140
- Language English