Ireland at Swim
Denis Donoghue, 21 April 1983
The Crane Bag Book of Irish Studies, 1977-1981
edited by M.P. Hederman and R. Kearney, with a preface by Seamus Heaney.
Blackwater Press/Colin Smythe, 930 pp., £25, October 1982,9780905471136 Show More
edited by M.P. Hederman and R. Kearney, with a preface by Seamus Heaney.
Blackwater Press/Colin Smythe, 930 pp., £25, October 1982,
A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers
by Hugh Kenner.
Knopf, 352 pp., $16.95, April 1983,0 394 42225 2 Show More
by Hugh Kenner.
Knopf, 352 pp., $16.95, April 1983,
“... The Crane Bag is a magazine, published twice a year: each issue deals with one theme. In Irish legend, the crane bag contained the alphabet of knowledge. The bag belonged to Manannan, god of the sea: it was made from the skin of his wife Aoife, whom Manannan had transformed into a crane because she tried to steal his secret knowledge and communicate it to the world ... ”
