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Invoking Ireland
John Moriarty
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Description for Invoking Ireland
paperback. Developed by the working party on Clinical Guidelines convened by The National Council for Palliative Care, this title refers to the care needed when death is imminent, care so distinct from the previous palliative care. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 314. Rare. From the library of Ivor Browne and June Levine. Very good clean copy
In the nineteenth century, here in Ireland, we started to walk away decisively from a native language that was a way of seeing and knowing things. In the twentieth century we started to walk away from a religion that in many of its ideas and practices was a folk religion. In this century we are walking away from local accents, from the big open vowels upon which so many of our poems depend for their full auditory effect. Overall, in line with revolutionary ambitions elsewhere in the world, we have moved from rites that related us to time and eternity ... Read more
In the nineteenth century, here in Ireland, we started to walk away decisively from a native language that was a way of seeing and knowing things. In the twentieth century we started to walk away from a religion that in many of its ideas and practices was a folk religion. In this century we are walking away from local accents, from the big open vowels upon which so many of our poems depend for their full auditory effect. Overall, in line with revolutionary ambitions elsewhere in the world, we have moved from rites that related us to time and eternity ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781843510796
SKU
KSG0031478
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About John Moriarty
JOHN MORIARTY (1938-2007) was born in North Kerry and educated at Listowel and University College Dublin. He taught English Literature at the University of Manitoba in Canada for six years, before returning to Ireland in 1971. He is the author of Dreamtime (1994, revised 1999), the trilogy Turtle Was Gone a Long Time: Crossing the Kedron (1996), Horsehead Nebula Neighing ... Read more
Reviews for Invoking Ireland
‘Asking Irish people to reconnect with their deepest springs, Moriarty reads the Tales in the light of a modern depth-psychology of which most Celtic scholars are still quite innocent. His commentaries are like the unleashing of lost ancestral forces, flashing forth again in our moment of current danger. These visionary texts are a reminder of the life-force that beats within ... Read more