Irish Lit: Understanding Modern Irish Literature
Do you prefer literature or dogs? Â This insight came to me as I was reading The Curious History of Irish Dogs by David Blake Knox. I was entranced. I learned that there are nine breeds of dogs native to Ireland, and almost all of them have been de-valued, made nearly or extinct.
Irish Lit: Drumming Days and a Belfast Poet
A less mythic and therefore more intimate depiction of how the immediacy of the Conflict forced parents to explain needless violence to their children is offered in Longley’s, “The Ice Cream Man”:
Irish Lit: Samuel Beckett and Keeping the Appointment
Not, you understand, between those who speak and those who listen - never that - but between those who say everything and those who say nothing.
At least we Irish are thus ...
Irish Lit: The Fascination of What’s Difficult
Throughout history, Literature has been a beacon for the Irish; today, it is more accomplished and available than ever. Let's talk about the Craic
Irish Lit: Listening to Claire Keegan
The next time I am in Dublin, I will go to Glasnevin Cemetery, to the Jesuit plot, and leave a small oval-shaped blue-hued stone at the foot of the cross where Gerard Manley Hopkins’ name is engraved. The great nineteenth-century poet is
