Writing Lough Derg: From William Carleton to Seamus Heaney

(Part of the Irish Studies, Syracuse University Press Series)

by Peggy O'Brien

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0815630980

ISBN13:9780815630982

Release Date:September 2006

Publisher:Syracuse University Press

Length:342 Pages

Weight:1.33 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 7.1" x 10.1"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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