- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Gaelic Ireland: Apocalypse Now?
- 2. Bardic Poetry: The Loss of Aura
- 3. Saving Civilization: Céitinn and Ó Bruadair
- 4. Dying Acts: Ó Rathaille and Others
- 5. Endings and Beginnings: Mac Cuarta and After
- 6. Jonathan Swift: a Colonial Outsider?
- 7. Home and Away: Gulliver’s Travels
- 8. Nostalgia as Protest: Goldsmith’s “Deserted Village”
- 9. Radical Pastoral: Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer
- 10. Sheridan and Subversion
- 11. Eibhlín Dhubh Ní Chonaill: The Lament for Art Ó Laoghaire
- 12. Brian Merriman’s Midnight Court
- 13. Burke, Ireland and Revolution
- 14. Republican Self-Fashioning: The Journal of Wolfe Tone
- I5. Native Informants: Maria Edgeworth and Castle Rackrent
- 16. Confronting Famine: Carleton’s Peasantry
- 17. Feudalism Falling: A Drama in Muslin
- 18. Love Songs of Connacht
- 19. Anarchist Attitudes: Oscar Wilde
- 20. George Bernard Shaw: Arms and the Man
- 21. Somerville and Ross: The Silver Fox
- 22. Undead in the Nineties: Bram Stoker and Dracula
- 23. Augusta Gregory’s Cuchulain: The Rebirth of the Hero
- 24. Synge’s Tristes Tropiques: The Aran Islands
- 25. W.B. Yeats: Building Amid Ruins
- 26. Ulysses, Newspapers and Modernism
- 27. After the Revolution: O’Casey and O’Flaherty
- 28. Gaelic Absurdism: At Swim-Two-Birds
- 29. The Blasket Autobiographies
- 30. Incorrigibly Plural: Louis MacNeice
- 31. Kate O’Brien: The Ante-Room
- 32. All the Dead Voices: Cré Na Cille
- 33. Underdeveloped Comedy: Patrick Kavanagh
- 34. Anglo-Gaelic Literature: Seán Ó Ríordéin
- 35. Irish Narrative: A Short History
- Notes
- Index
CONVERGENCES: INVENTORIES OF THE PRESENT
Irish Classics
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Publication Date: 10/30/2002
Awards & Accolades
- 2001 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin, Truman Capote Estate and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa
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