Modern Irish Literature: Sources and Founders

by Eilis Dillon (Editor), Eil's Dillon (Editor), Vivian Mercier (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $201.54

  This is a major study of modern Irish literature by the distinguished scholar Vivian Mercier (1919-1989). Through highly readable analyses of such major figures as Yeats, Synge, Shaw, Joyce, and Beckett, Mercier shows how these writers made use of a Gaelic literary heritage to create a confident new tradition which has become the basis of modern Irish writing in English.