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A Fantastic Introduction to Irish Literature
When I picked up this book in the Trinity University book store, I was just bored and looking for something to distract me from final exams. If not for the fact that it was on clearance, I probably wouldn't have bothered. But I started in on the introduction, kept going, and only looked at a clock after more than two hours had slipped by without my noticing.

Boland's introduction is funny and insightful in places, and the editorial selection beautifully illustrates the back and forth nature of the dialogue between authors. She describes Irish literature as an evolving conversation, and the book does meander around at times, but I enjoyed the diversions.

If you have access to a well-stocked library, you'll probably find that this book adds another ten or twenty to your reading list. Any one of these selections could have you combing through an author's body of work, looking for more.

The one theme that emerges more than any, at least to my mind, is the Irish tendency towards word play as they reconcile the introduction of the English language and the suppression of Irish--making the most of an unfortunate situation by using their new language in interesting ways. I don't know that this book will make you a better writer, but the florid prose and astute social commentary will be interesting and set you down new roads of thought.
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Ireland's greatest poet, William Butler Yeats, was also perhaps the most outstanding poet to have written in English since Wordsworth. Many of his early poems--wistful, mysterious, and suffused with Pre-Raphaelite imagery--are of haunting beauty. But in the early 1900s Yeats became disillusioned with this twilight, imaginary world and turned his thoughts increasingly to reality. Directing his energies to the twin causes of the Irish literary renaissance and Irish national independence, he evolved a new style: austere but capable of sustained magnificence. Michel Mac Liammir and Eavan Boland trace Yeats's long and eventful career, covering such episodes as his directorship of the Abbey Theatre and service in the Irish Senate, as well as his poetic activities. They analyze, with acuteness and humor, the contradictory qualities of a genius who was both lovable and forbidding, sophisticated and unworldly, a practical mystic and a superstitious realist. ... Read more

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To mark the centenary of the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin, where Eavan Boland is writer in residence throughout 1994, Carcarnet are reissuing this book. These poems were first published in 1982, and are a commentary in the sensual and visionary world which opens out in the connection between language and motherhood, celebrating moments of great intensity. ... Read more

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The enormous talent of celebrated Irish Padraic Fallon is demonstrated in this volume, which includes early poems (1930-1945), poems of maturity (1946-1959), late poems (1960-1974), and poems from plays, translations, and versions of Homeric Hymns and Ballads. ... Read more

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In this radical anthology, the work of three of Ireland's most important and best-loved contemporary poets is featured. Each has, in a different way, cleared new creative space from which to speak and to sing. The anthology comprises an essential selection of some 40 pages from the work of the poets. Each contributes a short personal statement and a bibliography. ... Read more

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From Publishers WeeklyWith this volume Boland, an Irish poet, establishes herself as an important voice in contemporary poetry. Through close attention to the specific details of women's domestic lives, she transcends minutiae and gives shape to the larger emotions and truths of those lives. In "Woman in Kitchen,"sic where the "tropic of the dryer tumbling clothes / the round lunar window of the washer / . . . in a room white and quiet as a mortuary," she exposes the inner vitality of her subject by evoking the exterior. The theme of both the creative and the imprisoning power of myth recurs throughout. In the excellent title sequence, Boland explores the movement of women from myth to history, evoking the painful awareness implicit in any move toward self-determination: "Out of myth into / history I move to be / part of that ordeal / whose darkness is / only now reaching me from the field." Her sharpened skill with language, rhythm and form permeates each poem in a collection that is a delight to ear and mind.Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. ... Read more

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Chapters: Maria Edgeworth, Lola Ridge, Caroline Norton, Augusta, Lady Gregory, Dervla Murphy, Maeve Brennan, Eavan Boland, Celia de Fréine, Elizabeth Griffith, Amanda Mckittrick Ros, Margaret Anna Cusack, Amy Carmichael, Emma Donoghue, Sister Nivedita, Jessie Louisa Rickard, Cecelia Ahern, Elizabeth Bowen, Helena Sheehan, Fanny Parnell, Edna O'brien, Constantia Grierson, Katharine Tynan, Mary Leadbeater, Maeve Binchy, Ethel Lilian Voynich, Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, Liz Mcmanus, Laetitia Pilkington, Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, Mary Anne Sadlier, Jane Wilde, Patricia Lynch, Nuala O'faolain, Eileen Shanahan, Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, Margaretta Eagar, Marian Keyes, Emily Lawless, Mary Lavin, Monica Loughman, Pauline Mclynn, Lady Morgan, Frances Browne, Helen Waddell, Mary Barber, Edith Anna Somerville, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Mary Tighe, Sarah Grand, Charlotte Riddell, Violet Florence Martin, Nell Mccafferty, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Mary O'malley, Marina Carr, Eva Gore-Booth, Patricia Burke Brogan, Nora J Murray, Molly Keane, Kate O'brien, Henrietta Battier, Máire Mhac an Tsaoi, Jennifer Johnston, Mary Letitia Martin, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Arlene Hunt, Clare Boylan, Ella Young, Mary Davys, Blanaid Salkeld, Roma Ryan, Eilís Dillon, Maura Murphy, Marita Conlon-Mckenna, Anna Maria Hall, Mary Devenport O'neill, Deirdre Purcell, Caitlín Maude, L. T. Meade, Mary Mccarthy, Grace Rhys, Claire Hennessy, June Levine, Jacinta Mcdevitt, Siobhán Parkinson, Anna Mcpartlin, Caitriona O'reilly, Ethna Carbery, Anne Marie Forrest, Mary O'donoghue, Sheila O'hagan, Máire Bhuí Ní Laoghaire, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Sarah Green, Maeve Kelly, Deborah Alcock, Liz Allen, Charlotte Brooke, Margot Ruddock, Moira O'neill, Elizabeth Sican, Niníne Éces, Selina Bunbury, Baroness Tautphoeus, Mary Stanislaus Maccarthy. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 367. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1189627 ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Eavan (Aisling) Boland, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2060 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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This digital document is an article from Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies, published by Irish University Review on September 22, 2009. The length of the article is 5646 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: 'Mise Eire', Eavan Boland.(Critical essay)
Author: Catriona Clutterbuck
Publication: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2009
Publisher: Irish University Review
Volume: 39Issue: 2Page: 289(12)

Article Type: Critical essay

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This digital document is an article from Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies, published by Irish University Review on September 22, 2008. The length of the article is 1958 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Pilar Villar-Argaiz, The Poetry of Eavan Boland: A Postcolonial Reading.(Book review)
Author: Jody Allen Randolph
Publication: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2008
Publisher: Irish University Review
Volume: 38Issue: 2Page: 464(5)

Article Type: Book review

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This digital document is an article from Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2007. The length of the article is 8280 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Recording the unpoetic: Eavan Boland's silences.
Author: Pilar Villar-Argaiz
Publication: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 37Issue: 2Page: 472(20)

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A new look at forgotten poets
The translations in After Every War are lovely and lyrical.The poems are translated from the German. It is interesting that several of the poets were German-speaking Jewish poets who faced great hardships.I particularly liked the work of Else Lasker-Schuler (1869-1945)


"Sweet angels, I have eaten
such bitter bread. push open
The door of heaven. For me, for now --

Although I am still alive --
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