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Repossessions: Selected Essays on the Irish Poetic Heritage (Literature) [Hardcover]

Sean O'Tuama (Author)

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Publication Date: December 1995 | ISBN-10: 1859180442 | ISBN-13: 978-1859180440

"This book is a work of painstaking scholarship intended for a non-specialist audience and written with consummate charm and skill. It should become required reading in all academic institutions where Irish Studies ... figure on the curriculum".

Maire Mhac an tSaoi, Poetry Ireland Review

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Maire Mhac an tSaoi, Poetry Ireland Review

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Sean O'Tuama is former Professor of Irish Literature, University College, Cork.

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Hardcover: 302 pages
Publisher: Cork University Press (December 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1859180442
ISBN-13: 978-1859180440
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,698,180 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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IRISH WAS THE language of the mass of the Irish people for some two thousand years up to the middle of the nineteenth century. Read the first page

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amour courtois, cultural philosopher, bardic poetry

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Art O'Leary, Daniel Corkery, Sliabh Luachra, Brian Merriman, Eoghan Rua, County Clare, Gaelic Ireland, Sir Valentine, Eileen Dubh, Aran Islands, Norry Singleton, Frank O'Connor, Gaelic League, Great Mother, Cois Fharraige, County Cork, Eireaball Spideoige, Peig Sayers, Roman de la Rose, Sir Nicholas Browne, Valentine Browne, Connemara Gaeltacht, County Kerry, Gougane Barra, Sir John Davies

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This book cites 80 books:

The Midnight Court by Brian Merriman on 11 pages
Hidden Ireland by Daniel Corkery on 8 pages
The Aran Islands (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by J. M. Synge on 6 pages
The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays: Riders to the Sea; The Shadow of the Glen; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy ... of the Sorrows (Oxford World's Classics) by J. M. Synge on 6 pages
Synge and Anglo-Irish Literature by Daniel Corkery on 4 pages

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