Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature

By Julieann Veronica Ulin

Book Overview

Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature offers the first book-length treatment of the literary return to and reinterpretation of Giraldus Cambrensis's twelfth century The History of the Conquest of Ireland. Writers studied include W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, James Joyce, Sean O'Faol in, Miche l Mac Liamm ir, Brendan Behan and Jamie O'Neill.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137297492
• ISBN13: 9781137297495
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"