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Studies the work of Seamus Heaney and Goeffrey Hill to present new perspectives on the way literature communicates moral knowledge.
A study of the later career of the poet Paul Muldoon who left his native Northern Ireland for the United States in 1987 and acquired US citizenship. The volume explores how the move to the US influenced Muldoon's work especially concerning themes of departure and return.
Change partners! May has come to dance; her boyfriend is away and she needs the company. Joe's been doing this a while; recently divorced, he's taking May through the steps. As they swing around the dancefloor they meet a plethora of characters including their passive aggressive dance instructors, the older man, George, and Sally whom he has the eye for, Imelda who's only recently moved to the city, Justin the flamboyant young gay guy who's full of energy and rhythm, Noelia from Spain, Regina from Northern Ireland, and Seán from the country who counts on counting the steps. An international hit from New York, Paris and Edinburgh, Swing is a comedy about dancing and music and love and not se...
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Official Voices: Poets and the Irish State examines the poet-politicians and bureaucrats who shaped the twenty-six-county Irish state, from its pre-history in the revolutionary period through its foundation in 1922 and complicated modernisation in the 1960s to the outbreak of the Troubles. Poet-officials juggled writing the state and navigating the force-field between poetry and politics, with poetic form registering the aftershocks of this collusive antagonism. Combining political history, cultural history and literary criticism, the book grapples with major issues in the state’s history: revolution, state violence/insurgency against the state, patriarchy, partition, modernisation, as wel...
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