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.