Tillinghast, Richard.

Finding Ireland a poet's explorations of Irish literature and culture / [electronic resource] : Richard Tillinghast. - Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008. - ix, 285 p.

Includes index.

Finding Ireland -- Letter from Galway, 1990 -- Letter from Dublin, 1998 : the Celtic tiger-- Letter from Dublin, 2005 : Wilde, Synge, and Orpen -- Who were the Anglo-Irish? -- The uneasy world of Somerville and Ross -- Travels through Somerville and Ross's Ireland -- The asymmetrical George Moore -- Elizabeth Bowen : the house, the hotel, and the child -- William Trevor : "they were as good as we were" -- Listening to Irish traditional music -- Flann O'Brien : no laughing matter -- Brian Friel : transcending the Irish national pastime -- Seamus Heaney's "middle voice" -- Derek Mahon : exile and stranger -- The future of Irish poetry? -- Mount Stewart : its gardens, house, and family -- W.B. Yeats : the labyrinth of another's being -- Looking for Yeats in Yeats country -- From Venice to Tipperary.


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Tillinghast, Richard--Travel--Ireland.


Literary landmarks--Ireland.
Authors, Irish--Homes and haunts--Ireland.
English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.


Ireland--Intellectual life.
Ireland--Description and travel.


Electronic books.

PR8731 / .T55 2008eb

820.9/9415