This book offers a critical reassessment of the uses of history in
contemporary Irish literature and culture. It argues that in much
recent Irish writing, history is approached not as the proverbial
'nightmare' from which Joyce's Stephen Dedalus tried to awake, but
as a rich, imaginative resource. Drawing on recent debates in Irish
literary and cultural criticism, On the uses of history in recent
Irish writing explores the varied, creative, and often critically
challenging forms of rewriting Ireland's troubled past in
contemporary prose, drama and poetry. Individual chapters focus on
literary treatments of the Tudor reconquest, the Famine, the
Northern Irish Troubles and other key events in Irish history,
highlighting in a series of close readings the unique forms of
historical thought enabled by different literary forms and genres.
Canonical works by authors such as Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Tom
Paulin, Brian Friel, Stewart Parker and Frank McGuinness are
considered alongside lesser known writers and texts, placing each
in their wider social, cultural and historical contexts. -- .
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