Writing Lough Derg

From William Carleton to Seamus Heaney

By:

Peggy O'Brien

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Irish Studies

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The overarching purpose of this volume is to show how a discrete tradition of writing about Lough Derg helped contemporary Irish poets rescue, metaphysical inquiry from the grip of nationalism. Linked with the supernatural from 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 literary treatments of Lough Derg from William Carleton through Denis Devlin, Patrick Kavanagh, and ultimately Seamus Heaney, Peggy O'Brien addresses the role of spirituality in an increasingly cosmopolitan, postmodern, post-Catholic Ireland. O'Brien's extended consideration of Heaney culminates in an insightful juxtaposition with Czeslaw Milosz, the Polish poet who also struggled with the conflation of Catholicism and patriotism.

Author Biography:

Peggy O'Brien is professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the editor of the Book of Irish Women's Poetry, 1969-2000, and regularly publishes essays on contemporary Irish poetry.

Release date Australia

September 30th, 2006

Author

Peggy O'Brien

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

342

Series

Irish Studies

Dimensions

178x254x18

ISBN-13

9780815630982

Product ID

2222601

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