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The Great War in Irish Poetry

W. B. Yeats to Michael Longley
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The Great War in Irish Poetry explores the impact of the First World War on the work of W.B. Yeats, Robert Graves, and Louis MacNeice in the period 1914-45, and on three contemporary Northern Irish poets, Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley. Its concern is to place their work, and memory of the Great War, in the context of Irish culture and politics in the twentieth century. The historical background to Irish involvement in the Great War is explained, as are the ways in which some of the events of 1912-1920 - the Home Rule crisis, the loss of the Titanic, the Battle of the Somme, the Easter Rising - still reverberate in the politics of remembrance in Northern Ireland. While the Great War is perceived as central to English culture, and its literature holds a privileged position in the English literary canon, the centrality of the Great War to Irish writing has seldom been acknowledged. This book is concerned with the extent to which recognition of the importance of the Great War in Irish writing has become a casualty of competing versions of the literary canon. It shows that, despite complications in Irish domestic politics which led to the repression of 'official memory' of the Great War in Ireland, Irish poets, particularly those writing in the 'troubled' Northern Ireland of the last thirty years, have been drawn throughout the century to the events and images of 1914-18.

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Fran Brearton is Lecturer in English, Queens University, Belfast
Release date Australia
June 1st, 2000
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  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
327
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145x225x22
ISBN-13
9780198186724
Product ID
2304273

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