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Contemporary Irish Poetry

A Collection of Critical Essays

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Elmer Andrews

    1. University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Elmer Andrews
    Pages 1-24

  3. Borderlands of Irish Poetry

    • Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
    Pages 25-40

  4. Myth and Modernity in Irish Poetry

    • Richard Kearney
    Pages 41-62

  5. The Aesthetic and the Territorial

    • Edna Longley
    Pages 63-85

  6. History and Poetry: Derek Mahon and Tom Paulin

    • Peter McDonald
    Pages 86-106

  7. History and its Retrieval in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry: Paulin, Montague and Others

    • Patricia Craig
    Pages 107-123

  8. Place and Displacement: Reflections on Some Recent Poetry from Northern Ireland

    • Seamus Heaney
    Pages 124-144

  9. The Landscape of Three Irelands: Hewitt, Murphy and Montague

    • John Wilson Foster
    Pages 145-167

  10. The Suburban Night: On Eavan Boland, Paul Durcan and Thomas McCarthy

    • Gerald Dawe
    Pages 168-193

  11. ‘Move, if you move, like water’: The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella, 1972–88

    • Maurice Harmon
    Pages 194-213

  12. Rhythm and Development in Michael Longley’s Earlier Poetry

    • Michael Allen
    Pages 214-234

  13. The Poetry of Derek Mahon: ‘places where a thought might grow’

    • Elmer Andrews
    Pages 235-263

  14. The Thoughtful Songs of James Simmons

    • A. S. Knowland
    Pages 264-285

  15. The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian

    • Michael Allen
    Pages 286-309

  16. Paul Muldoon: ‘Who’s to know what’s knowable?’

    • Barbara Buchanan
    Pages 310-327

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 328-344
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About this book

Contains 14 essays dealing with the poetry that has come out of Ireland since the mid-1960s. The first half of the book is devoted to general issues and themes, and takes account of the interrelationships of contemporary Irish poetry. The second half concentrates on the work of individual poets.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland

    Elmer Andrews

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Contemporary Irish Poetry

  • Book Subtitle: A Collection of Critical Essays

  • Editors: Elmer Andrews

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-80425-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1992

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-80425-2Published: 30 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 344

  • Topics: Arts

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