A century ago this year, productions of W.B. Yeats's The Countess Cathleen and Edward Martyn's The Heather Field launched what was to become Ireland's National Theatre, named after its home on Abbey Street, Dublin. This is the first history of the Abbey Theatre to set the plays and the personalities in their historical and political context and to describe the theatre's artistic development.

The Abbey Theatre, 1899-1999: Form and Pressure

Literature & Fiction

Welch, Robert

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

A century ago this year, productions of W.B. Yeats's The Countess Cathleen and Edward Martyn's The Heather Field launched what was to become Ireland's National Theatre, named after its home on Abbey Street, Dublin. This is the first history of the Abbey Theatre to set the plays and the personalities in their historical and political context and to describe the theatre's artistic development.

Irish Poetry from Moore to Yeats (Irish Literary Studies Series)

History & Criticism

Barnes & Noble Imports

'This volume will certainly be of interest to Moore scholars.'

The Way Back

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Irish writing has been influenced by religion from the beginning; indeed it was the arrival of Christianity which brought Latin orthography, which men of learning adopted. Pagan beliefs were assimilated into Christianity, but not entirely so: a theme which is dealt with in the essay on writing in early Ireland. The relationship between the various Irish Churches and writers in the 18th and 19th centuries is examined as is the influence of folk religion in modern Irish literature. There follow essays on: ghosts, Yeats, Synge, Joyce and Beckett; and on the poets Macneice, Kavanagh and Desmond Egan. Contributors: Lance St. John Butler; Peter Denman; Desmond Egan; Ruth Fleischmann; A. M. Gibbs; Barbara Hayley; Eamonn Hughes; Anne McCartney; Seamus MacMathuna; Joseph McMinn; Nuala ni Dhomhnaill; Mitsuko Ohno; Daithi O Hogain; Alan Peacock; Patricia Rafroidi and Robert Welch. Irish Literary Studies Series No. 37.

Irish Writers and Religion (Irish Literacy Studies Series) (Volume 37)

Religion & Spirituality

Notes on Animal Farm (York Notes)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Pearson York Notes

Notes on 1984: Notes (York Notes)

Focusing on the province of Munster, in southern Ireland, and panning back and forth over some four hundred years, from 1586 to 1956, Welch chronicles the family histories of the Condons, Herberts, Holmes, and the O'Dwyers. He focuses in on periods of great national disruption-the Elizabethean conquest, the Famine, emigration, the struggle for Irish independence. And he lets his characters speak in their own words, to tell us how they and their families fared through these events. It is their voices that make up Welch's story-individual, intimate, shockingly immediate-and the voices of their English masters. ""This powerful novel from Ireland is literature of the first rank, revealing a fiction born of the clash between history and legend.""-Booklist. ""Welch has succeeded brilliantly.""-New York Times Book Review

Groundwork

Blackstaff Pr

Softcover book with plastic comb binding from 1959.   Gives the background of the John Birch Society, their beliefs and practices.

Blue Book of the John Birch Society

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

American Opinion Books

Irish Poetry from Moore to Yeats&nbsp;examines the work of seven of the most significant Irish poets of the nineteenth century. Beginning with the impact that Thomas Moore's nationalist sentiment and generalised tone had on the language of poetry for much of the century, Prof. Welch then discusses J. J. Callanan's attempt to deal with a Byronic restlessness and his startling translations from the Gaelic. He shows how James Clarence Mangan tested out different 'voices' to express his psychic plurality and discovered a special freedom in his versions of Gaelic originals. He describes the foundering of Samuel Ferguson's vision of the reconciliation of Gaelic and Protestant traditions and demonstrates how the transcendental Catholicism of Aubrey de Vere mirrored Ireland's historical difficulties. He surveys William Allingham's scope, fairmindedness and attention to detail, and lastly considers the comprehensive power of W. B. Yeats's searching, qualifying imagination that informs his early work. A tradition emerges, composite, flawed, passionate, rhetorical, anxious; its intricate entanglements underlie many of the preoccupations of twentieth century Irish life and writing.

Irish Poetry from Moore to Yeats (Irish Literary Studies)

Poetry

Colin Smythe Ltd.

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