Ireland and France, a Bountiful Friendship Essays in Honour of Patrick Rafroidi

by Hayley, Barbara; Murray, Christopher; Bramsback, ^R Birgit; Brown, Terence; Eagan, Desmond; Fierobe, Claude; Genet, Jacqueline; Goldring, Maurice; Harmon, Maurice; Imhof, Rudiger; Jacquin, Daniel; Jeffares, Derry; Joannon, Pierre; Kearney, Richard; Martin

• ISBN13: 9780389209669
• ISBN10: 038920966X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-06-05
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

No one interested in Irish studies during the past 30 years will have missed the work of Patrick Rafroidi. Whether it be romantic poets or the contemporary novel or theatre and drama, he had much to say that was provocative, lively and always readable. His contribution to Irish studies was not only scholarly in the best and most strenuous sense but also generous, lighthearted and enlivening. Because he was such a friend to the Irish, the memory of Patrick Rafroidi well suits the general theme of this book.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Three Personal Answers to Patrick's Enquiry	p. 1
Patrick Rafroidi: Before and After	p. 5
'So Manie in the Verie Prime and Spring of Their Youth, Manie of Them Heirs of Lande': The Friars of the Irish Capuchin Mission in Northern France and the Low Countries, 1591-1641	p. 7
Montesquieu and Burke	p. 17
The Irish Heritage of the French Revolution : The Rights of People and the Rights of Man	p. 30
Gothic-Historical Sermon: Maturin's Last Novel, The Albigenses	p. 47
An Irishman in France: John Banim	p. 57
W. B. Yeats: The Crazy Jane Poems	p. 67
James Stephens and Paris: An Insight Gleaned from Letters to Thomas Bodkin	p. 93
Mary Lavin: Moralist of the Heart	p. 107
Post-Joycean Experiment in Recent Irish Fiction	p. 124
'My Present Unresolved': Denis Devlin and Montaigne	p. 137
Home and Away: Derek Mahon's France	p. 144
A French Perspective on the Irish Identity Crisis	p. 152
Paisley--Le Pen	p. 163
Etudes Irlandaises and Its Onlie Begetter	p. 173
L'Oeillet Invisible	p. 180
Invisible Carnation	p. 183
Patrick Rafroidi: Career and Publications	p. 185
Notes	p. 187
Notes on Contributors	p. 209
Index	p. 215
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