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Author: Standish O'Grady
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Category : Cuchulain
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Author: Standish O'Grady
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Category : Cuchulain
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Author: Standish O'Grady
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387038712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Author: Standish O ́Grady
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 373268251X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Reproduction of the original: The Coming of Cuculain by Standish O ́Grady
Author: Standish James O'Grady
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Languages : en
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Author: Standish O'Grady
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781517363963
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Languages : en
Pages : 192
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MR. O'GRADY'S works, like the great cycles of Gaelic literature, may be divided into three parts. This divisio triplex is of unquestionable antiquity. There is a Tripartite Life of St. Patrick. Omnis Gallia divisa est in partes tres, says Caesar. "Omne trinum perfectum " comes from the schools. And so Mr. O'Grady's works are threefold: historical, historico-romantic, and legendary. Of his historical style and value we formerly gave our views of his "Storm of Ireland," a book against which we warned the young men of Ireland and against which we hesitate not to warn them again. His historico-romantic style-what is commonly known as the historical novel - is seen in "The Captivity of Red Hugh" - a book not quite so indiscreet as the above "story" but indiscreet enough. We can speak more highly of his legendary tales than we can of any other. From which it doth appear that Mr. O'Grady's success as a writer varies in direct ratio to the distance he keeps from all historical matter. The "Coming of Cuculain " is a romance of the heroic age of Ireland, and you have not advanced far before you discover that when Mr. O'Grady finds a heroic topic he wields his pen in heroic style. Battles, encounters, banquets, goblets, spears, Druids, enchantments, forays, shields clanging in battle, and forests and hills trembling at the sight, and all in a wild strain of Ossianic rhetoric, à la McPherson (which really suits the gigantic events of the ancient heroes), are the embellishments of the short tale of the boyhood of Cuculain. The latter was obviously a champion, and some of his fights are entertaining reading; while in Deidrè - ancient Celtic Jephtha - there is a very refined embodiment of a noble idea. Of course we purposely abstain from indicating anything further about Cuculain, as we prefer our readers to encourage Mr. O'Grady to continue his labors in embodying some more of the great heroic legends of Firbolgian and Femorian times, by turning to the book itself. -The Dublin Review, Volume 116
Author: John Wilson Foster
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815625889
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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This is a critical survey of the fiction and non-fiction written in Ireland during the key years between 1880 and 1920, or what has become known as the Irish Literary Renaissance. The book considers both the prose and the social and cultural forces working through it.
Author: Geraldine Higgins
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137280956
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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This book reassesses the cultural and political dimensions of the Irish Revival's heroic ideal and explores its implications for the construction of Irish modernity. By foregrounding the heroic ideal, it shows how the cultural landscape carved out by these writers is far from homogenous.
Author: Rory T. Cornish
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443845442
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Crafting Infinity is a multi-disciplinary collection of essays that investigates how aspects of traditional Irish culture have been revised, retooled, and repackaged in the interest of maintaining the integrity of Irish myth tales, artistic values, spiritual foundations, and historic icons. From perspectives on early Irish Christianity to national mythology, traditional Irish music, Irish history represented in film, literary inventiveness, and evidence of the Irish diaspora, this study examines how artists, writers, theorists, and emigrants from Ireland re-interpreted, and reshaped Irish traditions, often invoking Ireland’s relationship with other nations before it acquired independence. Because with each retelling of legend, reworking of musical styles, and recreating of historic events, there has been inventiveness and alterations, inconsistencies affirm that the continuators of Irish tradition both preserve and alter their source materials and reshape iconic figures. The end product of these endeavors is tantamount to infinity, for just as Standish O’Grady, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Jennifer Johnston, and Edna O’Brien craft fiction or rewrite folklore, with Irish characters and themes, while borrowing from other cultural wellsprings (such as Orientalism or French design), so exporters of Irish art forms and dispositions towards musical style, nationalism, and spirituality necessarily reconfigure the original, as no tradition can remain pure indefinitely. Each facet of Irish culture takes on the quality of a Celtic knot, artistically infinite in its circular design, and indestructible in its universal presence and recognition. In Crafting Infinity, each contributor dismantles a quality of Irish history, culture, or the arts, revealing how a multiplicity of interpretations can be applied to Irish traditions.
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Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Author: Nicholas Patrick Wiseman
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Languages : en
Pages : 516
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