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Barfoot, The Clash of Ireland: Literary Contrasts and Connections.

Barfoot, The Clash of Ireland: Literary Contrasts and Connections.

Barfoot, C.C. / D’haen, Theo. [ed]. The Clash of Ireland: Literary Contrasts and Connections. First Edition Amsterdam / Atlanta, Rodopi, 1989. 22.5cm x 15cm. 281 pages. With historic illustrations. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Includes for example the following chapters: Astrophel and Ulster: Sidney’s Ireland / Politics, Literature and Colonization: A View of Ireland in the Sixteenth Century / Uncle Toby, Laurance Sterne, and the Siege of Limerick / Desserting the Village / J.M. Synge’s Tir-Na-Nog / Yeats and Homer / Tradition and Transformation in Rilke and Yeats / Ireland in Wonderland: Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman as a Nonsense Novel / Songs of Battle: Some Contemporary Irish Poems and the Troubles, etc.

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Barfoot, The Clash of Ireland: Literary Contrasts and Connections.
Barfoot, The Clash of Ireland: Literary Contrasts and Connections.

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Our shop is located on James Street in the beautiful old Georgian part of Westport between the tree-lined Mall and the Octagon, one of the town’s well known landmarks.