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An epic study in various forms of connection between literature and society, literature and history. Kiberd has set himself a mammoth task which he has undertaken with energetic erudition and accomplished with convincing style...[Kiberd's] most striking characteristic as a critic is his intellectual daring: he is capable of saying things that simply take the reader's breath away...[This book is] ebullient, monumental...epical in its aims and achievements.--Brendan Kennelly "Sunday Business Post "
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INVENTING IRELAND is the most ambitious critical history of modern Irish literature to have been published for many years. Declan Kiberd argues that the Irish literary revival of the 1890-1922 period embodied a spirit and a revolutionary, generous vision of Irishness that is still relevant to post-colonial Ireland. He develops his story through subtle and surprising readings of Lady Gregory, Synge, O'Casey, Joyce, Beckett, Flann O'Brien, Elizabeth Bowen, Heaney, Friel and younger writers to Roddy Doyle.
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
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Kiberd's book 'Inventing Ireland' is an examination of how the conception of Ireland and Irishness is reached. What are its components and how are they determined? In addressing this, Kiberd takes the reader on a tour of literary and cultural Ireland. He investigates the affect of colonialisation on Ireland and how Britain still impacts on Irishness. In this discussion he includes the experiences of expatriates in Britain who, he argues, have to 'don the mask of Paddy' in order to be acceptable as really Irish for a British public. Kiberd's argument that the inventors of Ireland are the Irish in Ireland, the Irish diaspora and the British is a stimulating approach which draws on the traditions of Fanon, du Bois and Memmi.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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So easy to read, so entertaining, I found it hard to grasp how the author made such a wide ranging subject almost jump off the page. Great stuff for the student or anyone interested in Ireland past and present.
6 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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Good book, good information. But, as a general reader, I find it a bit too full. I would prefer some illustrations, pictures but there are none. I'm still ploughing through it occasionally when the notion takes me. But, its probably not a book I will ever actually get finished!! One for the academics, who will probably get their information from other sources rather than all in the one book!! If you've all the time in the world for reading and nothing else to do, then this one is for you!! But, Declan Kibberd is a good writer and what I have read was very interesting!
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