Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its here, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira. Heaney's translation not only restores to us a work of historical and literary importance but offers the genius of one of our greatest living poets to reinforce its claims on the reader of contemporary literature.

Sweeney Astray: A Version From the Irish

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Field Day

SWEENEY ASTRAY : A Version from the Irish.("Buile Suibhne")

Nationalism, colonialism, and literature: Yeats and decolonization (A Field Day pamphlet)

Politics & Social Sciences

SAID, EDWARD W.

Politics & Government

Oscar Wilde moves towards a confrontation with Sir Edward Carson. As Carson desperately tries to create a future for Ulster Unionism, Wilde mocks the contradictions on which he and Carson are impaled.

Saint Oscar

EAGLETON, TERRY

Dramas & Plays

Revising the rising

History

Theo Dorgan

Europe

Dorgan, Theo

Ni Dhonnchadha, Mairin

Memoirs of Captain Rock

THOMAS MOORE (1779-1852) was Ireland's 'national poet' in the century before Yeats. His Irish Melodies (1808-34), composed and performed for an English audience, 'to sweeten Ireland s wrong' secured him worldwide fame. But MEMOIRS OF CAPTAIN ROCK (1824) was a sudden and brilliant variation on 'the-smile-and-the-tear' rhetoric of the Melodies. Its attribution of Irish violence to the British state's support for a rapacious Protestant minority and its savage military and legal repression of a Catholic majority inverted Tory platitudes and helped to make the brutal realities of Irish life a subject of serious public debate. Six editions were printed in London in 1824 alone; other editions appeared in Paris, Berlin, New York and Philadelphia. This annotated edition is the first to be published in Ireland.

Thomas, Moore

Between 1600 and 1929, perhaps seven million men and women left Ireland and crossed the Atlantic. Ireland and Irish America is concerned with Catholics and Protestants, rural and urban dwellers, men and women on both sides of that vast ocean. Drawing on over thirty years of research, in sources as disparate as emigrants' letters and demographic data, it recovers the experiences and opinions of emigrants as varied as the Rev. James McGregor, who in 1718 led the first major settlement of Presbyterians from Ulster to the New World, Mary Rush, a desperate refugee from the Great Famine in County Sligo, and Tom Brick, an Irish-speaking Kerryman on the American prairie in the early 1900s. Above all, Ireland and Irish America offers a trenchant analysis of mass migration's causes, its consequences, and its popular and political interpretations. In the process, it challenges the conventional 'two traditions' (Protestant versus Catholic) paradigm of Irish and Irish diasporan history, and it illuminates the hegemonic forces and relationships that governed the Irish and Irish-American worlds created and linked by transatlantic capitalism.

Ireland and Irish America

Kerby A. Miller

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