Ireland and the arts / edited by Tim Pat Coogan.
1984, First Edition. London : Namara Press. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Item #382694
ISBN: 0704334526
Physical description; 240p : ill. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. "A special issue of Literary review." Contents: General introduction / Tim Pat Coogan - The golden ages of Ireland / Peter Harbison - Art / Máire de Paor - Religion in Ireland / T.P. O'Mahoney - A glorious manuscript / G.O. Simms - The artist and the troubles / Seamus Deane - 'Francis Stuart and St. Peter : a dialogue' / Carlo Gébler. Race and a sense of place. Extracts from a sporadic diary / Brian Friel - Place names : the place / John Banville. Fiction. Ned McKeown's two doors : a prefatory note on the novel in Ireland / Benedict Kiely - The ones that got away / Frank Delaney - The Irish short story's last hurrah? / David Marcus - Women, writing and Ireland now / Nuala O' Failain. Short stories. A ballad / John McGahern - The break / Bernard MacLaverty. Poetry. The despair of whales ; When the game is over ; Folk ; The field of cries / Brendan Kennelly - Invocation to the voodoo queen ; Lenten love ; Devotional ; Black Mary ; Complaint to the goddess / Kevin T. McEneaney. Theatre. Yesterday / Christopher Fitz-Simon - Today: contemporary Irish theatre : the illusion of tradition / Fintan O'Toole. Irish writing. Irish language / Tim Pat Coogan - A repossession / Michael Davitt - Writing on an island / Dara O' Conaola. Poetry. Sweeney astray / Seamus Heaney - The mirror / Paul Muldoon - Hearts of oak ; Third draft of a dream / Michael Davitt - Childhood portrait / Liam Ó Muirthile - Diver / Gabriel Rosenstock. Sport. A guide to lesser Iliads / Sean Quinlan. Music. The traditional music scene in Ireland / Breandán Breathnach - Classical / John O'Donovan - The Irish rock scene / Gerry Stevenson. Art. The Irish renaissance and the visual arts / Bruce Arnold - A matrix of contemporary Irish visual art / Gordon Lambert - The National Gallery of Ireland / Holman Potterton. Architecture. Irish building / Maurice Craig - Georgian Dublin : a future / Harold Clarke. Crafts . Aspects of Irish applied art in the eighteenth century / Mairead Reynolds - Contemporary crafts / Justin Keating. Publishing in Ireland today / Liam Miller. Subjects: Irish literature 20th century. Arts Ireland. Arts Ireland History. Arts, Irish Arts. Ireland Civilization. Ireland Civilization. Ireland Arts to 1985. 01030 Ireland 11030 arts to 1985.
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