Grattan Freyer, Modern Irish Writing (1979)
Bibliographical details: Grattan Freyer, ed., Modern Irish Writing (Irish Humanities Centre 1979), 309pp. |
CONTENTS: Foreword; Preface by Conor Cruise OBrien [x-xvi]; poems in translation from S. E. Ó Cearbhaill [That Moment], Sean Ó Riordain [Frozen Sea]; Maire Mac an tSaoi [No Compromise]; Liam OFlaherty, The Black Mare, story; Peadar ODonnell, extract from The Knife; Sean Ó Faolain, Lovers of the Lake; Donagh MacDonagh, poems [The Day Set for Our Wedding; Going to Mass Last Sunday; Dublin Made Me; A Warning to Conquerors]; Patrick Kavanagh, poetry [Ploughman; Canal Bank Walk; The Great Hunger complete; In Memory of My Mother]; Austin Clarke, poems [The Envy of Poor Povers The Straying Student; The Medical Missionaries of Mary; The Thorn; Martha Blake]; Brendan Behan, The Big House, one-act radio play; Tom Murphy, On the Outside [one act play, outside dancehall]; Flann OBrien, from the opening of At Swim-to-Birds; Benedict Kiely, A Great Gods Angel Standing, story; M. J. Molloy, The Paddy Pedlar, one-act play; Edna OBrien, ext. from Girl with Green Eyes; John McGahern, Korea, story; Padraic Fiacc, poem [Christ Goodbye]; John Hewitt, poems [The Dilemma (1969); An Irishman in Coventry]; John Montague [Premonition; Coming Events; The Wild Dog Rose; Soliloquy on a Southern Strand; Windharp; She Dreams]; Richard Murphy, poems [The Wolfhound; the Reading Lesson; Enigma; For Sylvia Plath]; Thomas Kinsella, poems [A Lady of Quality; In the Ringwood; Prologue; First Light; A Moments Peace; Butchers Dozen; Finistère]; John Morrow, extract from The Confessions of Prionsias OToole; Seamus Heaney [Good Night; The Outlaw; The Wifes Tale; The Tollund Man]; Eavan Boland, poems [New Territory; The Other Woman; The Hanging Judge; Child of Our Time; The War Horse]; Juanita Casey, poem [Housemaids Unconnected Knee]; Francis Stuart, extr. from Things to Live For, and poem [Homecoming]. |
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Suggestions for Further Reading [cites works, collections, and Maurice Harmon Select Biliography for Anglo-Irish Lit. (1977). |
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