Bernard Shaw and the Making of Modern Ireland

By Audrey McNamara

Book Overview

Chapter 1: Introduction; Audrey McNamara and Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel.- Chapter 2: Speech at the First International Shaw Conference, Dublin; President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins.- Chapter 3: 'The Rush of Air, the Windows Opened in Extravagance and Storm of an Idea ...': Kate O'Brien's The Last of Summer and Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman; Anthony Roche.- Chapter 4: Shavian Echoes in the Work of Elizabeth Bowen; David Clare.- Chapter 5: 'An incorrigible propensity for preaching': Shaw and his Clergy; Elizabeth Mannion.- Chapter 6: Bernard Shaw and Sean O'Casey: Remembering James Connolly; Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel.- Chapter 7: WWI, Common Sense, and O'Flaherty, V. C.: Shaw Advocates a New Modernist Outlook for Ireland; Aisling Smith.- Chapter 8: O'Flaherty, V. C.: Satire as Shavian Agenda; Susanne Colleary.- Chapter 9: Shaw, Women and the Dramatizing of Modern Ireland; Audrey McNamara.- Chapter 10: The Economics of Identity: John Bull's Other Island and the Creation of Modern Ireland; Aileen R. Ruane.- Chapter 11: Bernard Shaw in Two Great Irish Houses: Kilteragh and Coole; Peter Gahan.- Chapter 12: Shaw's Ireland (and the Irish Shaw) in the International Press (1914-1925); Gustavo A. Rodr?guez Mart?n.-

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030421155
• ISBN13: 9783030421151
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"