Finding Ireland : a poet's explorations of Irish literature and culture / / Richard Tillinghast.
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 285 p. |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Finding Ireland
- Letter from Galway, 1990
- Letter from Dublin, 1998 : the Celtic tiger-- Letter from Dublin, 2005 : Wilde, Synge, and Orpen
- Who were the Anglo-Irish?
- The uneasy world of Somerville and Ross
- Travels through Somerville and Ross's Ireland
- The asymmetrical George Moore
- Elizabeth Bowen : the house, the hotel, and the child
- William Trevor : "they were as good as we were"
- Listening to Irish traditional music
- Flann O'Brien : no laughing matter
- Brian Friel : transcending the Irish national pastime
- Seamus Heaney's "middle voice"
- Derek Mahon : exile and stranger
- The future of Irish poetry?
- Mount Stewart : its gardens, house, and family
- W.B. Yeats : the labyrinth of another's being
- Looking for Yeats in Yeats country
- From Venice to Tipperary.