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Irish Classics

Irish Classics

by Declan Kiberd (Author)

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    Hardcover 2000

    $39.16
Synopsis

In this survey of enduring Irish classics, Declan Kiberd offers a discussion of the greatest work since 1600 in the two languages, Irish and English, that have shaped one of the world's literary cultures. Kiberd provides translations that seek to bring the texts alive for the English-speaking reader. He covers the bitter poetry of Seathrun Ceitinn and Dabhi O'Bruadair and the prose of Jonathan Swift and Edmund Burke; links the modern achievements of O'Riordain and O'Cadhain with Yeats, Joyce and the other familiar figures of Irish modernism; and shows how all of them draw on early Irish themes.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 704
 Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 10 Oct 2000
ISBN 10: 1862073864
ISBN 13: 9781862073869
Book Overview: Declan Kiberd's last work, Inventing Ireland , won the Irish Times Literature Prize.

Media Reviews
The most immediately striking aspect of Kiberd's brave enterprise is the sheer accessibility of the texts selected. There is never a suggestion of unworthiness in this ambitious survey of the enduring Irish classics, and the author's avowed intention of choosing works that challenge each successive generation is effortlessly fulfilled. To the non-specialist, his translations of the text extracts appear idiomatic and contemporary, but it is his enthusiasm for the great Irish writers that is communicated at every opportunity. For the modern reader, the early Gaelic writers will be unfamiliar, but Kiberd is adroit at conveying their special qualities. Nevertheless, we are on comfortable ground when we reach Jonathan Swift and Gulliver's Travels, and the author is able to deal intelligently with issues that remain paramount in any discussion of Irish writing, such as the necessity for exile, silence and cunning, exemplified in the brilliantly written chapter on Joyce and Ulysses. For those interested in the field, this book can open many new vistas.
Author Bio
Declan Kiberd is Professor of Anglo-Irish literature at University College Dublin.