Writing Lough Derg

Writing Lough Derg
Author :
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Total Pages : 352
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0815630735
ISBN-13 : 9780815630739
Rating : 4/5 (739 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Writing Lough Derg by : Peggy O'Brien

Download or read book Writing Lough Derg written by Peggy O'Brien and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overarching purpose of this volume is to show how a discrete tradition of writing about Lough Derg, a pilgrimage site in northwest Ireland, helped contemporary Irish poets rescue free, metaphysical inquiry from the grip of nationalism. Linked with the supernatural pagan times, Lough Derg had by the early twentieth century become an icon of the fusion of the Catholic Church and the Irish nation. Surveying treatments of Lough Derg from William Carleton through Denis Devlin, Patrick Kavanaugh, and ultimately Seamus Heaney, Peggy O'Brien addresses the role of spirituality in an increasingly cosmopolitan, postmodern, post-Catholic Ireland. Her extended treatment of Heaney culminates in an insightful juxtaposition with the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, who also struggled with the conflation of Catholicism and patriotism.


Writing Lough Derg Related Books

Writing Lough Derg
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Peggy O'Brien
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-09-18 - Publisher: Syracuse University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The overarching purpose of this volume is to show how a discrete tradition of writing about Lough Derg, a pilgrimage site in northwest Ireland, helped contempor
Lough Derg
Language: en
Pages: 165
Authors: Eamonn Conway
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Passage to the Center
Language: en
Pages: 349
Authors: Daniel Tobin
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-11 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, author of nine collections of poetry and three volumes of influential essays, is regarded by many as the greatest Irish poet since
Pilgrimage in Ireland
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Peter Harbison
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-06-01 - Publisher: Syracuse University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The landscape of Ireland is rich with ancient carved stone crosses, tomb-shrines, Romanesque churches, round towers, sundials, beehive huts, Ogham stones and ot
Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century
Language: en
Pages: 1380
Authors: David Pierce
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Cork University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

With five Nobel Prize-winners, seven Pulitzer Prize-winners and two Booker Prize-winning novelists, modern Irish writing has contributed something special and p