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Life
Irish-born Professor of English, Aberdeen Univ.; author of Irish Identity and the Literary Revival (London: Croom Helm, 1979), including essays on Yeats, Joyce, O’Casey, et al.; also ‘Cultural Imperialism: An Irish View’, in Yale Review (Yale UP 1986), and ‘Celticism and the Annulment of History’, Irish Studies Review (Winter 1994/5, [pp.2-6]; rep. in Celticism, ed. Terence Brown, Amsterdam: Rodopi 1996, pp.207-20.); edited and into. Castle Rachrent, by Maria Edgeworth [World Classics] (OUP 1964 & edns.), 160pp. [see his commentary, as supra].
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Quotations
‘The Famine had produced not merely a tradition of emigration, but an inexorable drift to the towns. The last thing that many of these new town-dwellers wanted was to be reminded of the power and narrowness of the life that they left behind them in Ireland’s lonely countryside.’ (Irish Identity and the Literary Revival (London: Croom Helm, 1979, p.26.)
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