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Irish Writing London : Post-War to the Present.

The presence of Irish writers is almost invisible in literary studies of London. The Irish Writing London redresses the critical deficit. A range of experts on particular Irish writers reflect on the diverse experiences and impact this immigrant group has had on the city. Such sustained attention to...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Herron, Tom
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Pub., 2012.
Colección:Bloomsbury studies in the city.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • FC; Half title; Bloomsbury Studies in the City; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgement; Notes on Contributors; Timeline; Introduction: The London-Irish
  • Insiders/Outsiders; Tom Herron; 1 Gaelic London and London Gaels in Dónall Mac Amhlaigh's An Irish Navvy; Jean-Philippe Hentz; 2 Borstal Boys and Cockney Chinas; Claire Lynch; 3 What She Lost and How: Eavan Boland's London Childhood; Lucy Collins; 4 Aliens: London in Irish Women's Writing; Heather Ingman; 5 Netherworld: London in John McGahern's Fiction; Grace Tighe Ledwidge; 6 Displaced Diaspora: From Deoraíocht to Kings.
  • Éadaoin Ní Mhuircheartaigh7 Persistence of Memory: An Exegesis of Exile in I Could Read The Sky; Thomas O'Grady; 8 Troubled Tales: Short Stories about the Irish in 1970s London; Tony Murray; 9 Going Transmetropolitan in the County Hell: Shane MacGowan's Early London Lyrics; J. Greg Matthews; Bibliography; Index.