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04785aam a22004338i 4500 001 C745AA22F11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180104010254 008 171102s2018 mau b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017050680 020 $a 0674976568 020 $a 9780674976566 035 $a (OCoLC)1012656704 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d HLS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR8753 K52 2018 100 1 $a Kiberd, Declan, $e author. 245 10 $a After Ireland : $b writing the nation from Beckett to the present / $c Declan Kiberd. 250 $a First Harvard University Press edition. 263 $a 1801 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a xiii, 540 pages ; $c 22 cm 500 $a "First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Head of Zeus Ltd First Floor East London ECIR 3RG." 520 $a Ireland is suffering from a crisis of authority. Catholic Church scandals, political corruption, and economic collapse have shaken the Irish people's faith in their institutions and thrown the nation's struggle for independence into question. While Declan Kiberd explores how political failures and economic globalization have eroded Irish sovereignty, he also sees a way out of this crisis. After Ireland surveys thirty works by modern writers that speak to worrisome trends in Irish life and yet also imagine a renewed, more plural and open nation. After Dublin burned in 1916, Samuel Beckett feared "the birth of a nation might also seal its doom." In Waiting for Godot and a range of powerful works by other writers, Kiberd traces the development of an early warning system in Irish literature that portended social, cultural, and political decline. Edna O'Brien, Frank O'Connor, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Hartnett lamented the loss of the Irish language, Gaelic tradition, and rural life. Nuala NiÌ Dhomhnaill and Eavan Boland grappled with institutional corruption and the end of traditional Catholicism. These themes, though bleak, led to audacious experimentation, exemplified in the plays of Brian Friel and Tom Murphy and the novels of John Banville. Their achievements embody the defiance and resourcefulness of Ireland's founding spirit--and a strange kind of hope. After Ireland places these writers and others at the center of Ireland's ongoing fight for independence. In their diagnoses of Ireland's troubles, Irish artists preserve and extend a humane culture, planting the seeds of a sound moral economy.-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: After Ireland? -- Beckett's inner exile -- Interchapter: A neutral Ireland? -- 'Gaeldom is over': The bell -- A talking corpse? SaÌirseÌal agus Dill -- A parrot in Ringsend -- MaÌire Mhac an tSaoi -- Growing up absurd: Edna O'Brien and The country girls -- Frank O'Connor: A mammy's boy -- Interchapter: Secularization -- Richard Power and The hungry grass -- Interchapter: Migration -- Emigration once again: Friel's Philadelphia -- Interchapter: Northern troubles -- Seamus Heaney: The death of ritual and the ritual of death -- Interchapter: Europeanization -- The art of science: Banville's Doctor Copernicus -- The double vision of Michael Hartnett -- Brian Friel's Faith healer -- Theatre as opera: The Gigli concert -- Frank McGuinness and The sons of Ulster -- Derek Mahon's Lost worlds -- Interchapter: Irish language -- Nuala NiÌ Dhomhnaill: Pharaoh's daughter -- Interchapter: Women's movement -- Eavan Boland: Outside history -- John McGahern's Amongst women -- Between First and Third World: Friel's Lughnasa -- Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clarke ha ha ha -- Interchapter: Peace comes dropping slow -- Seamus Deane: Reading in the dark -- Reading EÌilis NiÌ Dhuibhne -- Making history: Joseph O'Connor -- Fallen nobility: McGahern's Rising sun -- Conor McPherson: The seafarer -- Claire Keegan: Foster -- Kate Thompson and The new policeman -- Conclusion: Going global?. 650 0 $a English literature $x History and criticism. $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Irish literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a National characteristics, Irish, in literature. 650 0 $a National liberation movements in literature. 650 0 $a Nationalism in literature. 775 08 $i Preceded by (expression): $a Kiberd, Declan. $t After Ireland. $d London : Head of Zeus, 2017 $z 9781786693228 $w (OCoLC)1007888055 941 $a 4 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214023245.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20221117010835.0 952 $l UUAX975 $d 20190403010730.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190103014644.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C745AA22F11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search