Exile Emigration and Irish Writing

by Ward, Patrick

• ISBN13: 9780716526582
• ISBN10: 0716526581
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-25
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press

Summary

Exile, Emigration and Irish Writing is the first book to analyze the experience of exile and emigration in Irish writing. It traces the origin of the concept of exile from Columcille and early Christian Ireland through the centuries to the present. In tracing the origins, mutations and representations of exile and emigration, the author draws on modern post-colonial theory to contribute to the re-reading of Irish writing that is now under way.

Author Biography

Patrick Ward received his Ma from Hertfordshire University and his doctorate from University College, Dublin. He works as the Advisor for English in the Western Education and Library Board in Northern Ireland

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Introduction	xi
The Concept of Exile: Critical Constructions	1	(26)
Exile in the Irish Language Tradition and in the English Language Tradition prior to the Famine	27	(64)
Nationalist Constructions: Famine and Fenianism; Feelings and Forms	91	(41)
Holy Ireland: Constructions, Omissions, Evasions, Resistance	132	(50)
Exile, Art and Alienation: George Moore's Irish Writings	182	(50)
The Exiles Write Back: Artists, Escape, Representations and Exilic Studies	232	(14)
References	246	(24)
Bibliography	270	(19)
Index	289