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,
“... of keeping out of McDonald’s. The Crane Bag has much brooding about myth, especially Richard Kearney’s essay ‘Myth and Terror’, in which he resorts to Mircea Eliade and Paul Ricoeur to understand and, apparently, to pacify the mythic repetitions – of sacrifice, blood and apocalypse – he finds in modern Ireland. There is also much medition on ... ”
