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Sun and Wind (Classics of Irish History S.)
Standish Ja O´grady
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Description for Sun and Wind (Classics of Irish History S.)
Paperback. Presents the author's last work which he was editing at the time of his death in 1928. Series: Classics of Irish History. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 186 x 120 x 15. Weight in Grams: 177.
Sun and Wind was Standish James O'Grady's last work, which he was editing at the time of his death in 1928. Some parts of it were published as journal articles in his lifetime, but most is published here for the first time. Edward A. Hagan describes O'Grady as 'at once a political polemicist, a creative writer, and a somewhat unusual historian', involved in all three roles in this utopian treatise which 'reveals the pervasive influence of classical scholarship upon the Irish intellectual life of the period'. O'Grady argues for drastic change in Ireland in the first part and in the ... Read more
Sun and Wind was Standish James O'Grady's last work, which he was editing at the time of his death in 1928. Some parts of it were published as journal articles in his lifetime, but most is published here for the first time. Edward A. Hagan describes O'Grady as 'at once a political polemicist, a creative writer, and a somewhat unusual historian', involved in all three roles in this utopian treatise which 'reveals the pervasive influence of classical scholarship upon the Irish intellectual life of the period'. O'Grady argues for drastic change in Ireland in the first part and in the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University College Dublin Press
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Series
Classics of Irish History
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781904558118
SKU
V9781904558118
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About Standish Ja O´grady
Standish James O'Grady (1846-1928) is known principally for his two-volume History of Ireland published in 1878 and 1880 and for his role in the Irish Literary Revival. He worked as a journalist on the Daily Express, the Dublin-based unionist newspaper, until 1898; after 1898 he edited his own newspapers and wrote for others including The Irish Worker. Edward A. Hagan ... Read more
Reviews for Sun and Wind (Classics of Irish History S.)
"a welcome republication, intelligently introduced by Hagan in such a way as to emphasise its purely utopian dimensions." Utopian Studies 16.1 2004 "O'Grady's Sun and Wind is well worth reading, whether from a historical, a literary or a general interest point of view. In it come together a number of trends which link the nineteenth with the ... Read more