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Blood Kindred: W. B. Yeats, the Life, the Death, the Politics

W J McCormack - Biography & Autobiography - 2011 - 502 pages
In June 1934, W. B. Yeats gratefully received the award of a Goethe-Plakette from Oberburgermeister Krebs, four months after his early play The Countess Cathleen had been ...
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The Silence of Barbara Synge

W. J. McCormack - Dramatists - 2003 - 330 pages
A unique cultural history which describes the various maneuvers of the Synge family in its negotiations with Irish history.
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Dissolute Characters: Irish Literary History Through Balzac, Sheridan Le ...

W. J. McCormack - Characters and characteristics in literature - 1993 - 280 pages
Irish literature in English commands world-wide respect, but it is rarely discussed in a comparative light. This study of the making and unmaking of character commences with ...
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From Burke to Beckett: Ascendancy, Tradition and Betrayal in Literary History

W. J. McCormack - British - 1994 - 484 pages
In 1985 the highly acclaimed "Ascendancy and tradition " posed the question: "Why did Ireland, a small country by any standard, contribute so prolifically to the modernist ...
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Ascendancy and Tradition in Anglo-Irish Literary History from 1789 to 1939

W. J. McCormack - English literature - 1985 - 444 pages
The Anglo-Irish literary renaissance that flowered between Edmund Burke's last years and the generation of Yeats and Joyce had close ties to European Romanticism and was a ...
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Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland

W. J. McCormack - Fantasy fiction, English - 1980 - 346 pages
A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories ...
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The Dublin Paper War of 1786-1788: A Bibliographical and Critical Inquiry ...

W. J. McCormack - History - 1993 - 172 pages
The long and acrimonious exchange of pamphlets, which surrounded publication of Richard Woodward's Present State of the Church ofIreland in December 1786 has attracted a good ...
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Northman: John Hewitt (1907-1987) : an Irish Writer, His World, and His Times

W. J. McCormack - Poetry - 2015 - 315 pages
This is a biography of John Hewitt, and of his wife, Roberta (nee Black). To establish Hewitt's late arrival as a poet, the book recounts his negotiations with a London ...
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