Celtic Revisionism
Patrick Parrinder, 24 July 1986
A Short History of Irish Literature
by Seamus Deane.
Hutchinson, 282 pp., £15, March 1986,0 09 161360 4 Show More
by Seamus Deane.
Hutchinson, 282 pp., £15, March 1986,
The Complete Dramatic Works
by Samuel Beckett.
Faber, 476 pp., £12.50, April 1986,0 571 13821 7 Show More
by Samuel Beckett.
Faber, 476 pp., £12.50, April 1986,
The Beckett Country: An Exhibition for Samuel Beckett’s 80th Birthday
by Eoin O’Brien and James Knowlson.
Black Cat, 97 pp., £5, May 1986,0 948050 03 9 Show More
by Eoin O’Brien and James Knowlson.
Black Cat, 97 pp., £5, May 1986,
“... if it will conform to an Irish (or Scottish or American) model. The new books by Seamus Deane and Liam dePaor are judicious and informative in their own right, but they have the added interest of embodying two influential and competing conceptions of cultural identity from an Irish perspective. ... ”