Inventing Ireland: The Literature of a Modern Nation
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Inventories of the Present. Return to Book Page. Mystery, passion and danger in early 19th century Edinburgh, Scotland. Kiberd has the gift, though, of writing interestingly about books I strongly suspect I would find tedious themselves, and o Recommended on a memorable evening in a pub in County Cork, thanks Cahel, this is the kind of book makes me forget all my good intentions of not giving too many five-star ratings. Rejecting the notion that artists such as Wilde, Shaw, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett became modern to the extent that they made themselves European, he contends that the Irish experience was a dramatic instance of experimental modernity and shows how the country's artists blazed a trail that led directly to the magic realism of a Garcia Marquez or a Rushdie. Declan Kiberd tries in this vast, wide-ranging book to find various contexts in which the literature of the Irish Renaissance can be placed.
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Inventories of the Present. Recent News Allan Lichtman, author of The Embattled Vote in America , talked to Vox about the history of disenfranchisement in the United States and the dire consequences to American democracy of ongoing voter suppression. They used the most modern methods available: Both buildings sought to establish the progressive nature of the Catalan enterprise, but both are also laden with medieval motifs, reminders of former greatness, of the time before and the beginning of Castilian imperialism.
Like most turn-of-the-century buildings in Barcelona they used Gothic and Romanesque references, spiky shapes, cave-like entrances, floral motifs in wrought iron, coloured glass or ceramic tiles, ornate sculpture, conveying both craft and opulence.
Both were elected to the Cortes in Madrid to represent the Catalan cause. I spent a year in Barcelona at the end of the Eighties, looking at these buildings, reading about these architects and thinking about their efforts to construct a nation. Sometimes, as I sat in the Biblioteca de Catalunya in the 14th-century hospital building, I had to blink to make sure that I was not in the National Library in Dublin.
Some of the connections between Catalonia and Ireland during this period of nation-inventing were obvious: There were poems in Catalan on the death of Terence MacSwiney on hunger strike in Both Catalan and Irish politicians could, and still can, play tricks with the arithmetic of the Cortes in Madrid and the Mother of Parliaments in Westminster.
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But it was the general shape and atmosphere of Catalan cultural politics between and which constantly reminded me of Ireland. There were echoes, too, between the careers of Joyce and Picasso, who found all this rhetoric and invention too much for them, who viewed Dublin and Barcelona respectively as centres of paralysis, and who got the hell out as early as they could. Declan Kiberd tries in this vast, wide-ranging book to find various contexts in which the literature of the Irish Renaissance can be placed.
I have found it a treasure trove, also because it offers valuable analogies for a student of my own country's history. I sincerely hope you buy it, and read it, and re-read it. It is worth ten times what you pay for it. This book offered me a lot on first reading, and even more upon re-reading. I'm sure I'll be going back again, as his ideas about not only Anglo-Irish literature, but the uses of history in constructing a present identity for Ireland really impressed me a great deal.
My absolute favorite quote of appears on p. History thereby becomes a form of science fiction: See all 5 reviews. Customers who viewed this item also viewed. An Irish Literature Reader: The Teenage Dirtbag Years: A Short History of Ireland, Feedback If you need help or have a question for Customer Service, contact us.
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