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'98 Reader: An Anthology of Song, Prose and Poetry
Padraic O´farrell (Ed.)
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Description for '98 Reader: An Anthology of Song, Prose and Poetry
Paperback. 8vo. North of Ireland.
Seventeen ninety-eight saw French and American revolutionary ideals converge with popular rebellion in Ireland. The rebellion ended in bloody failure, but 1798 was kept alive in folk memory by a nascent literature added to by succeeding generations of nationalists and cultural revivalists. This wide-ranging gathering of prose, poetry and song mirrors both sides of that conflict, orange and green, imperial and republican, from the early idealism of the 1782 Dungannon Convention to the final snuffing out of resistance in Wicklow in 1803. Here are the legendary ballads and verse accounts of the rebellion, familiar and little known, ranging from those ... Read more
Seventeen ninety-eight saw French and American revolutionary ideals converge with popular rebellion in Ireland. The rebellion ended in bloody failure, but 1798 was kept alive in folk memory by a nascent literature added to by succeeding generations of nationalists and cultural revivalists. This wide-ranging gathering of prose, poetry and song mirrors both sides of that conflict, orange and green, imperial and republican, from the early idealism of the 1782 Dungannon Convention to the final snuffing out of resistance in Wicklow in 1803. Here are the legendary ballads and verse accounts of the rebellion, familiar and little known, ranging from those ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781901866032
SKU
KEX0293094
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Ref
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