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The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture

ISBN: 978-0-631-22817-2

January 2002

Wiley-Blackwell

720 pages

Description
Covering a period from c.1450 to the present, this Companion is designed to serve the needs of readers whose interests lie well beyond the familiar boundaries of Irish culture.
About the Author
W. J. McCormack is Professor of English at Goldsmith's University. His numerous pubications in Irish Literature, history and culture include the classic Ascendancy and Tradition (1985), reprinted in a revised and enlarged edition as From Burke to Beckett: Ascendancy, Tradition and Betrayal in Literary History (1994).
Features

  • Offers a major and original reference tool.

  • Provides new perspective by innovatory approaches.

  • Emphasis history and context.