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Tillinghast, Richard Finding Ireland: A Poet's Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture
University of Notre Dame Pre October 15, 200 0-268-04232-2 / 9780268042325 Paperback As New
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Richard Tillinghast, a celebrated American poet and critic, lived for a yea r in Ireland in the early 1990s and then returned each year until he became a resident in 2005. From an insider/outsider perspective, he writes vividl y and evocatively about the land and people of his adopted home, its cultur e, its literature, and its long, complex history. Tillinghast orients the reader to Ireland as it is today. Following its ent ry into the European Union, Ireland changed radically from an impoverished, provincial, former British colony to a country where a farmer takes his wi fe on skiing holidays in Switzerland and is proud of his wine cellar, to on e now home to immigrants from Europe, Africa, and Asia. For many Americans- -Irish Americans in particular--Ireland is a mythic and timeless land; from his unique vantage point, Tillinghast debunks a good many stereotypes that prevent our seeing Ireland for what it was, as well as what it has become. Most of Finding Ireland is devoted to thoughtful readings of the works of I rish writers and playwrights, including W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Oscar W ilde, and Brian Friel, as well as lesser-known names that deserve a wider r eadership. Tillinghast also considers the significant contributions of Angl o-Irish authors--John Millington Synge, Elizabeth Bowen, George Moore, Viol et Martin and Edith Somerville, William Trevor, and Derek Mahon--with excur sions into Irish architecture, music, and garden design. In contemporary Ireland, Tillinghast finds a dynamic society that has stepped out of the shadows of its troubled past to embrace an inclusive,
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