An Irish Literature Reader: Poetry, Prose, Drama, Second Edition

By James MacKillop

Book Overview

In a volume that has become a standard text in Irish studies and serves as a course-friendly alternative to the Field Day anthology, editors Maureen O'Rourke Murphy and James MacKillop survey thirteen centuries of Irish literature, including Old Irish epic and lyric poetry, Irish folksongs, and drama. 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 includes a larger sampling of women writers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815630468
• ISBN13: 9780815630463
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 578 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.7" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Irish Literature

Readers should understand that this is the ONLY overview of Irish Literature we have in print. It is a perfect text for American students, the best text there is to serve as the foundation text for any introductory Irish Studies course. The editors chose to forgo inclusion of literary works readily available for the most part (Yeats, O'Casey, and the like), to give precedence to more to those that are harder to find, but which need to be studied seriously in order to get an overall understanding of Irish literature.