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	Irish fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, there are aspects of Early Irish prose that appear to have had some influence on the Irish novel: the use of exaggeration for humorous effect, a near obsession with lists, and a strong sense of satire.
		Irish fiction can be said to begin with the publication in 1726 of Jonathan Swift's masterpiece Gulliver's Travels.
		O'Nolan was bilingual and his fiction clearly shows the mark of the native tradition, particularly in the imaginative quality of his storytelling and the biting edge of his satire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_fiction (1996 words)

	Irish literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The generation of Irish poets that followed Yeats were, to simplify, divided between those who were influenced by his early Celtic style and those who followed such modernist figures as James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, both of whom wrote poetry as well as their better known fiction and drama.
		Although the documented history of Irish theatre began at least as early as 1601, the earliest Irish dramatists of note were William Congreve, one of the most interesting writers of Restoration comedies, and Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who were two of the most successful playwrights on the London stage in the 18th century.
		However, it was in the last decade of the century that the Irish theatre finally came of age with the emergence of George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde and the establishment in Dublin in 1899 of the Irish Literary Theatre.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_literature (1284 words)

	Contemporary Irish Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Contemporary Irish Fiction on the other hand as at last count only three general surveys Gerry Smyth's, The Novel and the Nation; a collection of essays edited by Michael Parker and Ian Harte and a recent issue of the Irish University Review was devoted to contemporary Irish fiction.
		Irish fiction on the other hand is concerned as Irish writing in general is concerned with imagining the world in new ways.
		The Irish have always resided in a problematic world or space: in terms of physical space within Ireland and in relation to vexed problem of emigration, of being Irish in Berlin or Boston; in terms of cultural belonging because of being physically in Berlin or Boston.
	www.writerscentre.ie /anthology/dhand.html (6255 words)

	Irish Fiction - Northbrook Public Library
		An Irish woman whose husband left her trades houses for the summer with an American woman grieving for her son.
		An ancient corpse found in an Irish peat bog may be linked to a modern-day disappearance of a woman and her child.
		A girl growing up on the Irish coast loses her twin and yearns for the love of her mother, whose secret sorrow she is determined to understand.
	www.northbrook.info /lib_fiction_irish.php (1161 words)

	The Richmond Review, Essay, The Furies of Irish Fiction by Julia O'Faolain
		Irish ideology is in flux - which may be why rage in Irish fiction has developed ways of wavering off target.
		The high incidence of lunacy in recent Irish fiction does seem to be indicative of a loss of bearings outside the narratives as well as within.
		For Irish Catholics the jolt at leaving the British Empire in 1921 - I am thinking of those who did not actively welcome this - must have been softened by the sustaining networks of family-solidarity, local community and the Church - all of which were still strong.
	www.richmondreview.co.uk /library/ofaola01.html (4078 words)

	Contemporary Irish Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For Longley, Irish poetry issues forth not in glorious blossoms but 'tuberous clottings', is 'a muddy /Accumulation' rather than a spontaneous overflow, to be found in 'specializations of light' distilled from the everyday kind, or, in Joycean style, 'dialects of silence' rather than the spoken word.
		Another aspect of the 'nowhere' of Southern Irish identity in Barry's anthology is the place it assigns writing by women precisely nowhere, placing the book at a somewhat coy angle to the explosive sexual politics of the 1980s, with its constitutional referendums on divorce and abortion.
		The reflex assignment of Irish writers to one of two broadly defined camps (unionist or nationalist, Protestant or Catholic, theorist or liberal humanist for critics) continues to possess a baleful tenacity in Irish debate.
	www.writerscentre.ie /anthology/wheatleyessay.html (5748 words)

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		But for Smyth, the Irish fiction which has emerged over the last fifteen years, especially since Mary Robinson's election, is the most appropriate literary genre for coming to terms with the rapid developments in Irish culture, economics, and society.
		Doyle is crucial to the new Irish fiction, according to Smyth, because of his duality of quintessential realism and postmodernity, the latter created by the juxtaposition of "the effects of mass international culture with a residual local culture" (67).
		What it does represent apparently, is the coronation of Roddy Doyle as the king of current Irish fiction, a title which Doyle himself probably would not accept, given his relative surprise at being studied by critics and students in the lengthy interview appended to this chapter.
	social.chass.ncsu.edu /jouvert/v4i1/russ.htm (2764 words)

	Modern Irish Fiction Since 1960 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This collection of fourteen substantial essays has been designed to map the landscape of Irish fiction since 1960, and to assess the extraordinary literary achievement of Irish novelists and short story writers, North and South of the border, over the last forty years.
		As this volume demonstrates, Irish novelists and short story writers since 1960 have both continued and challenged conventional notions of Irish fiction; and they have contributed, in stimulating and inventive style, to the continuous examination of Irish identity, culture and politics, while making their fiction resonate with wide cultural, intellectual and human interest.
		There are also general essays of a more explicitly comnparative and thematic nature covering such topics as the impact of modernisation on Irish fiction, the contemporary ‘Big House’ novel, the Proestant imagination, the ‘Troubles’ Novel, the importance of the past, childhood and women’s narratives, constructions of masculinity, and women short story writers.
	www.colin-smythe.com /books/mofic.htm (331 words)

	Amazon.com: Irish Fiction, The Penguin Book of (Penguin Books): Books: Various,Colm Toibin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It's hard to keep up with Irish literature, and it's difficult to take stock of; the backlist, as it were, shifts constantly, being a cultural tradition subject to the winds of politics and whatever a nation's self-image is at the moment.
		An awareness of the proximity of England and France makes the Irish writer aware of what is missing; and the three subjects that dominate Irish fiction are fire, men killing women, and fathers and sons.
		The Penguin book of Irish Fiction is a fine way to sample a variety of works by Irish writers, ranging from an excerpt of Gullivers Travels by Swift to James Joyce's The Dead.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670891088?v=glance (1025 words)

	Park Ridge Public Library -- Irish Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On the eve of its destruction, seven Irish novelists use their imaginations to relive one last night at the once-famous, but now decrepit Dublin Hotel.
		In this very Irish atmosphere, each writer brings to life a chapter in the tale of seven different guests and their eclectic evening filled with nostalgia, humor and love.
		Through flashbacks full of folklore, a tale is told of a simple life and the changes brought to the Irish countryside by the twentieth century.
	www.park-ridge.il.us /library/irishfiction.html (514 words)

	Representing the Troubles in Irish Short Fiction
		In doing so, it demonstrates how Irish writers have embraced a variety of literary modes and techniques in order to track the varied and changing attitudes of the Irish toward every aspect of the Troubles, including revolution, violence, sectarianism, terrorism, and identity-thinking.
		Stories about the Troubles began as the romantic expression of the intense nationalism felt by the rebels of the Easter Rising, but the violence and betrayal of the Civil War of 1922-23 led writers to adopt the mode of literary naturalism to express their disillusionment with nationalism.
		As tensions increased in the middle decades of the century, culminating in a renewal of violence in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s and extending into the 1990s, writers turned their attention to realistic depictions of sectarian tensions and then to more graphic portrayals of violence and terrorism.
	cuapress.cua.edu /BOOKS/viewbook.cfm?Book=STRT (536 words)

	Cardiff Corvey Articles, IV.2: J. BELANGER. Fiction Relating to Ireland, 1800—29 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In part, this increase may be attributed to the attention given to Irish issues in Britain (in parliamentary reports, newspapers, and literary reviews and magazines, for example) as a result of the growing political agitation for Catholic Emancipation and the rising incidence of agrarian violence in Ireland throughout the 1820s.
		The general pattern for fiction reveals that the 1810s were dominated by women authors, as were the 1800s to a lesser degree, while for fiction relating to Ireland, women authors predominated during the 1800s but the 1810s were largely balanced between male and female authorship.
		Her research interests include Irish literature, and literary reviews of the Romantic Period, and a proposal for a monograph study of the British critical reception of Anglo-Irish writing, 1800–30, is currently under preparation.
	www.cf.ac.uk /encap/corvey/articles/cc04_n02.html (8095 words)

	Irish American Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Synopsis: During the sweltering summer of 1963, a woman from a close-knit Irish family living in an insulated New York community struggles through her tenth month of pregnancy, family problems, and her own fears of the future.
		Synopsis: A fictional retelling of the brutal fight for the Fredericksburg wall follows the experiences of the soldiers under General Ambrose Burnside's Army of the Potomac and the Irish Brigade.
		This book is fiction but is based on stories my father told meabout my Irish grandmother who with her father emigratedfrom Ireland in the 1800s.
	www.pacificnet.net /~ianet/Bookstore/novelia.html (2965 words)

	irish fiction - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		Irish culture in general and at Irish fiction in particular.
		In both the fiction and the nonfiction...on Frank OConnors fiction and presented papers on Irish literature, the novels...
		To explain the Irish being at the forefront of modern poetry, theater and fiction, McCourt focuses on William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett and James Joyce.
	www.questia.com /search/irish-fiction (1837 words)

	Criticism: Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories. - book review
		This is a collection of a dozen essays, by as many different scholars, on Irish fiction (mostly novels) since about 1960, particularly of the 1980s and 1990s, with some references back to earlier parts of the twentieth century.
		This is not a book destined to make contemporary Irish fiction more accessible to a wider readership; these are specialist critics talking only to other specialist critics.
		Whereas Weekes concentrates on mothers and daughters, Christine St Peter's complementary essay, "Petrifying Time: Incest Narratives from Contemporary Ireland," is devoted to "father-daughter incest in Irish fiction" (125), showing how Edna O'Brien, for example, has become increasingly politicized in her attacks on that problem in such novels as Down by the River (1996).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2220/is_2_43/ai_83794826 (793 words)

	Teenreads.com -- THE PENGUIN BOOK OF IRISH FICTION edited by Colm Toibin
		Toibin, born in Ireland and hailed by the Irish Independent as "the best Irish writer of his generation," knows Irish fiction.
		His introduction detailing the history of Irish literature is itself a fine piece of work.
		In between, you have not only the best Irish fiction written, you have some of the best fiction written, period.
	www.teenreads.com /reviews/0670891088.asp (254 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Charles Joseph Kickham
		He joined the Fenians about 1860, and was appointed one of the editors of "The Irish People", the organ of the Fenian Party, along with John O'Leary and T. Luby.
		Kickham contributed largely to Irish national periodicals, such as "The Nation" (1848), "The Irishman" (1849-50), "The Celt" (1857), another paper called "The Irishman" (1858), "The Irish People" (1865), "The Shamrock", "The Irish Monthly" (1881).
		During his imprisonment he wrote his first novel, "Sally Cavanagh or the Untenanted Graves" (published in 1869 with a portrait of the author), a simple tale of love among the small farmer class, describing the tragic results of landlordism and emigration but enlivened with touches of humour.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/16049b.htm (726 words)

	ipedia.com: Irish literature Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Irish literature For a comparatively small country, Ireland has made a disproportionate contribution to world literature in all its branches.
		During the course of the 20th century, the influence of Yeats has tended to dominate.
		Catleton was an exception, and his and Stories of the Irish Peasantry'' showed life on the other side of the social divide.
	www.ipedia.com /irish_literature.html (1293 words)

	A world of Irish Regency fiction
		Set at sea and ashore in Co Cork, Ireland during the Wars against Napoleon, the writer uses a subtle blend of genres, Regency, Humour and Historical to cast a spell of real charm in this wry and sometimes alarmingly dark tale.
		This town with three names has a spectacular maritime history with connections to both the Titanic and the Lusitania as well as having been a major port of embarkation for thousands of Irish looking for a new life.
		That history, however, is well documented and well written elsewhere; my work concentrates on a more flamboyant, eccentric age when the worlds most dominant nation was ruled by a mad King, tall-ships ruled the waves and intrigue, fancy and eloquence ruled the heart.
	dadelacy.tripod.com (507 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Contemporary British and Irish Fiction: An Introduction Through Interviews: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A critical introduction traces contemporary British and Irish literary cartography focusing on roots and region, dialect and dialogue, national identity and the transnational context, myth and religion, and a favourite national pastime: bemoaning the end and celebrating the resurrection of the novel.
		Contemporary British and Irish Fiction: Novelists in Interview is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary writing.
		This critical introduction traces contemporary British and Irish literary cartography focusing on roots and region, dialect and dialogue, national identity and the transnational context, myth and religion.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0340760877 (366 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: After the Wake (Classic Irish Fiction): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From the song's of Shane McGowan to the wall's of any Irish theme pub across the world, Behan is quite literally plastered into the Celtic myth, as a hell raising boozer who drank himself to death at the age of 41.
		In 'After the Wake', edited by Peter Fallon it's a rare treat to find some of Behan's fiction gathered together, short stories of an autobiographical nature, charting the politics and ritual of Irish life in the 30's and 40's.
		While Yeats conjured visions of Cuchalainn and Joyce abhorred the Irish heroics, Behan lived it and wrote it with a skill averev born from experience.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0862780314 (602 words)

	Irish Sci-Fi News: News from Irish Sci-Fi News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At present, only news stories back to June 2004 are available, although we will be including archived stories back to 2002 in the near future.
		If you are already getting the Irish Sci-Fi News by e-mail - (and at last count, that was almost 300 of you) -, fear not.
		The Irish Sci-Fi News was, and still is, an e-mail newsletter covering the latest science fiction, fantasy, horror and comics news from Ireland and beyond.
	www.slovobooks.com /irishsfnews (704 words)

	Irish Literature Bibliography
		Summary: The story of two Irish girls, Kate, and Baba, who are sent to a convent school.
		Summary: Set in the Irish Civil War, this is the story of a poor man who accepts money for "informing" on a friend.
		Fifteen-year-old Cormac, longing to fulfill his artistic inclinations, leaves his family farm in ninth-century Ireland and joins a monastery, where he creates an illuminated manuscript to be treasured by generations to come.
	www.mtsu.edu /~vvesper/irish.html (1305 words)

	Irish Non-Fiction Books on the Internet.
		Gangland is an explosive exposé of the Irish criminal underworld, where fear and murder form part of everyday life.
		Some are notorious some less well known: all reveal that the dark forces which drive men to murder are fully shared by women.
		Moytura's Irish Books - offers a large selection of Irish books in over 33 different categories.
	www.shopirishwithmoytura.com /books/non-fiction.html (452 words)

	MGPL Webrary® - Irish Fiction
		Gill, Death of a Joyce Scholar Death of an Irish Seawolf, Peter McGarr mysteries
		Roberts, Nora Born in Fire; Born in Ice; Born in Shame, Irish Thoroughbred and Irish Rose, Irish Rebel
		Irish Magic: 4 Tales of Romance and Enchantment.
	www.webrary.org /rs/flbklists/Irish.html (354 words)

	Irish Non-Fiction Writers Forum
		The Irish shop is being added to daily so keep looking in.
		Irish Culture has never been so popular, but what do ye really know?
		Specific Irish heritage search engine, search for your Irish family surname roots, find out if your family have a Irish clan organisation.
	www.sceala.com /phpBB2/forum-32.html (366 words)

	IRISH FICTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Recognized as one of the great writers of the 20th-century, Beckett's Waiting for Godot revolutionized contemporary theater and his fiction is ranked by many with that of Joyce and Proust.
		Told by means of letters interwoven with comments of Connie's next-door neighbor, the novel describes her blossoming romance with the imprisoned Sean and the consequences of their affair.
		Written by a total of fifteen different Irish author, YEATS IS DEAD presents the reader with an eclectic range of characters as the story progresses.
	www.pacificnet.net /~ianet/Bookstore/novelirl.html (3333 words)

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