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The Irish Art of Controversy
Lucy McDiarmid
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Description for The Irish Art of Controversy
Paperback. Num Pages: 305 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJC; ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136. .
Controversies are high drama: in them people speak lines as colourful and passionate as any recited on stage. In the years before 1916, public battles were fought in Ireland over French paintings, Dublin slum children, and theatrical censorship. Controversy was ‘popular,’ wrote George Moore, especially ‘when accompanied with the breaking of chairs’. In her new book, Lucy McDiarmid gives a lively account of these and other controversies. They offered to everyone direct or vicarious involvement in public life: the question they articulated was not ‘Irish Ireland or English Ireland’ but whose ‘Irish Ireland’ would dominate when independence was finally achieved. ... Read more
Controversies are high drama: in them people speak lines as colourful and passionate as any recited on stage. In the years before 1916, public battles were fought in Ireland over French paintings, Dublin slum children, and theatrical censorship. Controversy was ‘popular,’ wrote George Moore, especially ‘when accompanied with the breaking of chairs’. In her new book, Lucy McDiarmid gives a lively account of these and other controversies. They offered to everyone direct or vicarious involvement in public life: the question they articulated was not ‘Irish Ireland or English Ireland’ but whose ‘Irish Ireland’ would dominate when independence was finally achieved. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781843510697
SKU
V9781843510697
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-26
About Lucy McDiarmid
LUCY McDIARMID is Professor of English at Villanova University, Pennsylvania, and is Visiting Professor of Irish Literature at Northwestern University, Chicago. Former President of the American Conference for Irish Studies, she is author of Saving Civilization: Yeats, Eliot and Auden Between the Wars (1984), and co-editor with Maureen Waters of Lady Gregory: Selected Writing (1995).
Reviews for The Irish Art of Controversy
‘The Irish Art of Controversy is what serious scholarship should be: meticulously informed, lucid, original. I enjoyed every page.’ – Samuel Hynes, Princeton University ‘Lucy McDiarmid brilliantly identifies five dramas of cultural change in Ireland in the years before independence, narrating them in all their complexity, tragedy, and comedy. Vividly original, written with verve, wit and meticulous scholarship, The Irish ... Read more