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Book SynopsisIrish writing, we are told, is currently enjoying a renaissance. Strange, original talents are blossoming, wielding styles and perspectives as variant as the inspirations they bring to bear on their work. The Other Irish Tradition seeks to situate this recent flowering within the centuries-long efforts of Irish writers to experiment and to innovate, to make the form of the novel new and strange again. From Laurence Sterne to Flann O’Brien and beyond, this anthology presents both highly familiar and relatively obscure writers from across the history of Irish fiction, offering afresh perspective on and a provocative reshuffling of the literary canon.
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Table of ContentsAuthors included in the anthology:
- Jonathan Swift
- Laurence Sterne
- James Clarence Mangan
- George Egerton
- James Joyce
- Samuel Beckett
- Eimar O’Duffy
- Máirtín Ó Cadhain
- Flann O’Brien
- Aidan Higgins
- Edna O’Brien
- Desmond Hogan
- Dorothy Nelson
- Emer Martin
- Mike McCormack
- Philip Ó Ceallaigh
- Dave Lordan
- Jennifer Walshe
- Anakana Schofield
- John Holten
- June Caldwell
- Kevin Breathnach
