An Irish Literature Reader

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ISBN: 9780815630463 | 0815630468
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Copyright: 6/30/2006

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In a volume that has become a standard text in Irish studies, editors Maureen O'Rourke Murphy and James MacKillop survey thirteen centuries of Irish literature, including old Irish epic and Iyric poetry, Irish folksongs and a selection of nineteenth-century prose and poetry. For each author the editors provide a biographical sketch, a brief discussion of how his or her selections relate to a larger body of work, and a selected bibliography. In addition, this new volume also includes a larger sampling of women writers.

Preface to the Second Edition

xvii

Acknowledgments

xix

PART ONE: Eighth Century to the Irish Literary Renaissance

(132)

Early and Medieval Irish Literature

(31)

Old Irish Prose

(14)

Táin Bó Cuailnge

(9)

Deirdre

(3)

Oidheadh Chlainne Lir

(2)

Old Irish Poetry

(5)

"News of Winter"

(1)

"The Blackbird by Belfast Loch"

(1)

"Liadan Tells of Her Love for Cuirithir"

(2)

"The Scribe in the Woods"

(1)

"The Viking Terror"

(1)

"Pangur Ban"

(2)

Three Ninth-Century Poems for Students and Pilgrims

(1)

"He That Never Read a Line"

(1)

"The Pilgrim at Rome"

(1)

"Cú Chuimne"

(1)

From the Late Tenth or Eleventh Century

(1)

"Eve"

(1)

Columcille's Poems

(2)

"The Three Best-Beloved Places"

(1)

"Derry"

(1)

"A Blue Eye Will Look Back"

(1)

"My Hand Is Weary with Writing"

(1)

From Duanaire Finn

(2)

"The Bird-Crib"

(2)

From Buile Shuibline (The Madness of Sweeney)

(6)

The Frenzy of Suibne

(6)

Early Modern Irish Poetry

(36)

Anonymous

(1)

"Cill Chais" (Kilcash)

(1)

Séathrún Céitinn (Geoffrey Keating) (1580–c. 1644)

(1)

"O Woman Full of Wile"

(1)

Thomas Flavell (fl. late seventeenth century)

(1)

"The County of Mayo"

(1)

Donnchadh Rua Mac Conmara (1715-1810)

(2)

"Fair Hills of Eire"

(2)

Aogán Ó Rathaille (c. 1675-1729)

(4)

"Brightness Most Bright"

(2)

"Valentine Brown"

(1)

"The Geraldine's Daughter"

(2)

Eoghan Rua Ó Suilleabháin (1748-1784)

(2)

"Friend of My Heart"

(2)

Eibhlin Dhubh Ni Chonaill (Eileen O'Connell) (c. 1770)

(14)

"Caoineadh Airt Ui Laoghaire" (Lament for Art O'Leary)

(14)

Brian Mac Giolla Meidhre (Brian Merriman) (1749?-1805)

(11)

"Cúirt an Mheadhon Oidhche" (The Midnight Court)

(11)

Irish Folk Songs

(18)

"The Grief of a Girl's Heart"

(1)

"Brighidin Bán Mo Stóre" (Bridget, My Treasure)

(1)

"Have You Been at Carrick?"

(1)

"Shute Aroon, a Brigade Ballad"

(1)

"Mary from Dungloe"

(1)

"Sean O'Dwyer of the Glen"

(2)

"The Sorrowful Lamentation of Callaghan, Greally, and Mullen"

(1)

"The Rising of the Moon"

(1)

"The Wearin' o' the Green"

(1)

"Nell Flaherty's Drake"

(2)

"The Star of Slane"

(2)

"The Night Before Larry Was Stretched"

(2)

"Finnegan's Wake"

(3)

Nineteenth-Century Prose

(17)

Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849)

(7)

From Castle Rackrent

(7)

William Carleton (1794-1869)

(10)

From "The Poor Scholar"

(9)

Nineteenth-Century Poetry

105

(28)

Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

105

(3)

"The Minstrel Boy"

106

(1)

"The Song of Fionnuala"

106

(2)

Anthony Raftery (1784-1835)

108

(5)

"I am Raftery"

109

(1)

"Raftery's Praise of Mary Hynes"

109

(1)

"Anach-Cuain" (The Drowning of Annach Doon)

110

(3)

James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849)

113

(8)

"Dark Rosaleen"

114

(2)

"The Nameless One"

116

(2)

"Shapes and Signs"

118

(1)

"To the Ingleezee Khafir, Calling Himself Djaun Bool Djenkinzun"

119

(2)

Samuel Ferguson (1810-1886)

121

(2)

"Cashel of Munster"

121

(1)

"Dear Dark Head"

122

(1)

Thomas Davis (1814-1845)

123

(12)

"Lament for the Death of Eoghan Ruadh O'Neill"

124

(2)

"The West's Asleep"

126

(1)

From "Our National Language," Part I

127

(6)

PART TWO: The Irish Literary Renaissance

133

(100)

Douglas Hyde (1860-1949)

135

(15)

Selections from The Love Songs of Connacht

136

(14)

"My Grief on the Sea"

136

(1)

"Ringleted Youth of My Love"

136

(1)

"My Love, Oh, She Is My Love"

137

(2)

"The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland"

139

(11)

Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852-1932)

150

(15)

"The Only Son of Aoife"

151

(4)

The Rising of the Moon

155

(10)

Lyric Voices of the Irish Renaissance

165

(9)

T.W. Rolleston (1857-1920)

166

(1)

"Clonmacnoise"

166

(1)

Katharine Tynan Hinkson (1861-1931)

167

(1)

"The Children of Lir"

167

(1)

George W. Russell ("AE") (1867-1935)

168

(2)

"The Great Breath"

168

(1)

"Parting"

168

(1)

"The Winds of Angus"

169

(1)

"Immortality"

169

(1)

"Terence MacSwiney"

170

(1)

Padraic Cohan (1881-1972)

170

(1)

"She Moved Through the Fair"

170

(1)

Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917)

171

(3)

"June"

171

(1)

"Thomas MacDonagh"

172

(2)

John Millington Synge (1871-1909)

174

(17)

Riders to the Sea

175

(16)

"Prelude"

184

(1)

"On an Anniversary, After Reading the Dates in a Book of Lyrics"

184

(1)

"Queens"

185

(1)

"The Passing of the Shee, After Looking at One of A.F.'s Pictures"

185

(1)

"On an Island"

186

(1)

"Is It a Month"

186

(1)

"Beg-Innish"

187

(1)

"To the Oaks of Glencree"

187

(1)

"The Curse"

188

(1)

"In Kerry"

188

(1)

"On a Birthday"

188

(1)

"A Question"

189

(2)

George Moore (1852-1933)

191

(7)

"Julia Cahill's Curse"

191

(7)

Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878-1957)

198

(4)

"Ringsend, After Reading Tolstoi"

199

(1)

"The Crab Tree"

199

(3)

Pádraic Ó Conaire (1882-1928)

202

(12)

"Put to the Rack"

203

(11)

James Stephens (1880[82?]-1950)

214

(6)

From The Insurrection in Dublin

215

(3)

From Irish Fairy Tales

218

(2)

The Poets of 1916

220

(13)

"Proclamation of the Irish Republic"

221

(1)

PH. Pearse (1879-1916)

222

(5)

"I Am Ireland"

222

(1)

"Ideal, or Renunciation"

223

(1)

"The Rebel"

223

(2)

"To Death"

225

(1)

"At the Grave of O'Donovan Rossa"

225

(2)

Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916)

227

(2)

"The Man Upright"

227

(1)

"The Yellow Bittern"

228

(1)

"Of a Poet Patriot"

229

(1)

Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887-1916)

229

(6)

"The Little Black Rose Shall Be Red at Last"

229

(1)

"This Heritage to the Race of Kings"

230

(3)

PART THREE: Ireland Since Independence

233

(192)

Daniel Corkery (1878-1964)

235

(8)

"Solace"

235

(8)

Seán O'Faolain (1900-1991)

243

(8)

"The Fur Coat"

244

(7)

Frank O'Connor (1903-1966)

251

(10)

"The Long Road to Ummera"

252

(9)

Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984)

261

(11)

"Going into Exile"

261

(11)

Poets from the Post-Independence Generation

272

(15)

F.R. Higgins (1896-1941)

273

(2)

"Father and Son"

273

(1)

"Padraic Ó Conaire, Gaelic Storyteller"

274

(1)

Austin Clarke (1896-1974)

275

(7)

"Aisling"

275

(2)

"The Straying Student"

277

(1)

"Irish-American Dignitary"

278

(1)

"Burial of an Irish President (Dr. Douglas Hyde)"

278

(1)

"A Sermon on Swift"

279

(3)

John Hewitt (1907-1987)

282

(5)

"The Glens"

282

(1)

"An Irishman in Coventry"

283

(4)

Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967)

287

(7)

"Shancoduff"

287

(1)

"Epic"

288

(1)

"Pegasus"

288

(2)

"In Memory of My Mother"

290

(1)

"Canal Bank Walk"

291

(1)

"Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin,..."

291

(3)

Flann O'Brien (1911-1966)

294

(16)

From At Swim-Two-Birds

295

(6)

From An Beal Bocht (The Poor Mouth)

301

(9)

Mary Lavin (1912-1996)

310

(16)

"Happiness"

310

(16)

Cotemporary Poets in Irish and English

326

(99)

Máirtin Ó Direriin (1910-1988)

326

(3)

"Honesty"

326

(1)

"The Dignity of Sorrow"

327

(1)

"Memories"

327

(2)

Seán Ó Riordain (1916-1977)

329

(4)

"The Back of the House"

329

(1)

"Frozen"

330

(1)

"My Mother's Burying"

331

(2)

Máire Mhac an tSaoi (b. 1922)

333

(4)

"Inquisitio 1584"

334

(1)

"For Sheila"

334

(1)

"Finit"

335

(1)

"Lament for Séamus Ennis"

335

(2)

Thomas Kinsella (b. 1928)

337

(5)

"In the Ringwood"

338

(1)

"Handclasp at Euston"

339

(1)

"Sisters"

340

(1)

"The Poet Egan O'Rahilly, Homesick in Old Age"

340

(2)

John Montague (b. 1929)

342

(6)

"Like Dolmens Round My Childhood, the Old People"

343

(2)

"A Grafted Tongue"

345

(1)

"The Flight of the Earls"

346

(2)

Seamus- Heaney (b. 1939)

348

(15)

"Digging"

349

(1)

"Traditions"

350

(2)

"Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication"

352

(1)

1. "Sunlight"

352

(1)

2. "The Seed Cutters"

353

(1)

"Act of Union"

353

(1)

"Exposure"

354

(2)

"Punishment"

356

(1)

From "Station Island"

357

(2)

"Sweeney Redivivus"

359

(1)

"A Brigid's Girdle"

359

(1)

"Tollund"

360

(1)

"Postscript"

361

(2)

Michael Longley (b. 1939)

363

(4)

"Emily Dickinson"

364

(1)

"The Linen Industry"

364

(1)

"In Memoriam"

365

(2)

Derek Mahon (b. 1941)

367

(8)

"A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford"

368

(2)

"The Snow Party"

370

(1)

"Imbolc: JBY"

371

(2)

"To Mrs. Moore at Inishannon'"

373

(2)

Caitlin Maude (1941-1982)

375

(1)

"Untitled"

376

(1)

Eiléan Ni Chuilleanáin (b. 1942)

376

(6)

"The Second Voyage"

377

(1)

"Waterfall"

378

(1)

"Old Roads"

378

"J'ai Mal à nos Dents"

370

(10)

"St Mary Magdalene Preaching at Marseilles"

380

(2)

Eavan Boland (b. 1944)

382

(4)

"Athene's Song"

382

(1)

"Requiem for a Personal Friend"

383

(1)

"After a Childhood Away from I-Jeland"

384

(1)

"Child of Our Time"

385

(1)

Ciarán Carson (b. 1948)

386

(3)

"The Bomb Disposal"

387

(1)

"Gate"

387

(1)

"Last Orders"

388

(1)

Medbh McGuckian (b. 1950)

389

(4)

"The Mast Year'

390

(1)

"The Soil-Map"

390

"Vanessa's Bower"

302

(91)

Peter Fallon (b. 1951)

393

(3)

"The Lost Field"

394

(1)

"Fostering"

395

(1)

Paul Muldoon (b. 1951)

396

(5)

"Mules"

396

(1)

"The Boundary Commission"

397

(1)

"Moy Sand and Gravel"

397

(1)

"The Ancestor"

398

(1)

Stoic"

398

(1)

"One Last Draw of the Pipe"

399

(1)

"The Breather"

400

(1)

Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill (b. 1952)

401

(12)

"Deepfreeze"

402

(1)

"Inside Out"

403

(1)

"Annunciations"

404

(1)

"Marvellous Grass"

405

(1)

"The Great Queen Speaks. Cú Chulainn Listens."

406

(1)

"Muirghil Castigates Sweeny"

407

(2)

"Parthenogenesis"

409

(2)

"The Language Issue"

411

(1)

"The Shannon Estuary Welcoming the Fish"

411

(2)

Paula Meehan (b. 1955)

413

(4)

"The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks"

414

(2)

Moya Cannon (b. 1956)

416

(1)

"Night"

417

(1)

Cathal Ó Searcaigh (b. 1956)

418

(4)

"The Well"

419

(1)

"Beyond"

420

(2)

Greg Delanty (b. 1958)

422

(5)

"The Heritage Centre, Cobh 1993"

422

(1)

"To President Mary Robinson"

423

(2)

PART FOUR: Late Twentieth-Century Fiction and Drama

425

(64)

William Trevor (b. 1928)

427

(19)

"The Ballroom of Romance"

428

(18)

John McGahern (1934-2006)

446

(7)

"Korea"

447

(6)

Éills Ni Dhuibhne (b. 1954)

453

(11)

"Love, Hate and Friendship"

453

(11)

Tom/Thomas Murphy (b. 1935)

464

(25)

On the Outside

465

(24)

Glossary: Words, Places, Persons, Allusions

489

(28)

Selected Background Readings

517

(12)

Index

529

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