This book is the first, groundbreaking edition of writing of Speranza (1826-1898) and William Wilde (1815-1874), selected poems, translations, travel writings, medical observations, literary criticism, folklore and political commentary, reclaiming the writings of Jane and William Wilde as part of the public history of Ireland in the nineteenth century"--
This new book reclaims Jane Wilde as a significant poet, scholar, essayist, translator and social commentator.
Jane Wilde (1826 - 1898) - née Jane Francesca Elgee - was the mother of Oscar Wilde, but Eibhear Walshe shows that she was a notable poet, translator, and political pamphlet writer in her own right. Born in Wexford, she contributed to The Nation under the name of 'Speranza', and issued a call to arms on behalf of the Young Irelander...
This new book reclaims Jane Wilde as a significant poet, scholar, essayist, translator and social commentator.
Jane Wilde (1826 - 1898) - née Jane Francesca Elgee - was the mother of Oscar Wilde, but Eibhear Walshe shows that she was a notable poet, translator, and political pamphlet writer in her own right. Born in Wexford, she contributed to The Nation under the name of 'Speranza', and issued a call to arms on behalf of the Young Irelander...
Kate O'Brien (1897-1974) was one of the most important Irish writers of the twentieth century, widely read, accessible and popular in Britain, Ireland and the United States. She wrote for such respected literary journals as the Spectator, and the Irish Times, she broadcast regularly for the BBC and adapted her best-selling novels for the stage in London and on Broadway. One novel, That Lady, even became a Hollywood movie. She was a regular Boo...
Kate O'Brien (1897-1974) was one of the most important Irish writers of the twentieth century, widely read, accessible and popular in Britain, Ireland and the United States. She wrote for such respected literary journals as the Spectator, and the Irish Times, she broadcast regularly for the BBC and adapted her best-selling novels for the stage in London and on Broadway. One novel, That Lady, even became a Hollywood movie. She was a regular Boo...
The Irish Big House novelist, Molly Keane, was born in 1904, and in 2005 the Department of English at University College Cork will host an international conference. This book gathers these essays together to explore the writings of this important literary voice within twentieth-century Irish writing. Scholars of Irish literature from the US, Spain and Ireland presents perspectives on many aspects of her creative output, looking at a fascinatin...
Her family had been settled in Farrahy in North Cork for nearly two hundred years by the time of her birth in 1899 and her fiction reflects this long and difficult history between landlord and landscape. As she wrote in her family history "Bowen 's Court" (1942): "The land outside Bowen 's Court 's windows left prints on my ancestors eyes that looked out: Perhaps their eyes left, also, prints on the scene? If so, those prints were part of the ...
If perceptions of sexual identity evolve partly through public events, how then did Irish media and literary sources configure Wildes homosexuality during his trials and after? Wildes homosexuality was a contested discourse within twentieth-century Ireland, a discourse that became interconnected with Irish cultural nationalism. Thus Wilde became a weathervane for the rare but contentious discussions of homosexuality in Ireland, and his life an...
Eibhear's personal voyage takes us through his hometown, the buildings of his childhood city, his grandmother's abattoir, the Mental Hospital where his father works, and the Folly Church where he serves as an altar boy. It is the story of a city and the story of his journey from fear to pride but the most important character throughout is the entertaining, fashion-conscious, poker-playing Cissie, his lively and witty little grandmother who tau...
