Frank O'Connor: Critical Essays (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781846820120)

This book investigates unexplored areas of Frank O'Connor's work; his achievements as a translator of Irish language poetry, his role in the debates on Irish literary modernism, his reception in America, his relationship with writers and intellectuals of the time, his autobiographical writings, his fictional representations of the Irish Civil War, and Denis Johnston's film adaptation of Guests of the Nation, are examined. The book also includes an original essay by Harriet O'Donovan Sheehy on life with the man and the writer. Contributors: Nicholas Allen (UNC), Terence Brown (TCD), Paul Delaney (TCD), Philip Edwards (U. Liverpool), Richard Evans (Auburn U., Montgomery), Maurice Harmon (UCD), Brendan Kennelly (TCD), John Kenny (NUIG), Declan Kiberd (UCD), Hilary Lennon (TCD), Emilie Pine (U. York), Ruth Sherry (Norwegian U. Trondheim), Michael Steinman (Nassau Community College, New York), Carol Taaffe (TCD), Alan Titley (St Pat's, DCU).

Author: Hilary Lennon
ISBN-10: 184682012X
ISBN-13: 9781846820120
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Language: English
Published: 07/30/2007
Pages: 242
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2007 pg. 275