McCarthy, Thomas.

Questioning Ireland – Essay and Reviews [Rare Hardcover-Edition SIGNED by Thomas McCarthy on the titlepage].

First Edition (simultaneously published in Softcover (Paperpack) and Hardcover). Oldcastle, The Gallery Press, 2024. Octavo. 420 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. As new condition with only minor signs of wear. This is the very rare Hardcover-Edition which was sold out very quickly. SIGNED by Thomas McCarthy on the titlepage.

This important volume includes a plethora of essays / reviews which will be relevant for generations to come.

The Volume includes for example:

Part One: “That Irish Question″

Five Women and Three Men: 1991-2016 / Poets, The Ireland The Dreamt Of / A 1916 Foreword / Celtic Tiger, Irish Climate / The Cappoquin Cricket XI / The Years of Forgetting: 2006-2011 / Fianna Fail – The Waiting Game / Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 by R F Foster

Part Two: “The Question of Women’s Poetry″

’The outrage of People’ – Why Men should study women’s poetry / Herself / Eavan Boland’s Daring Integrity / Eavan Boland by Jody Allen Randolph / From a woman on a train to ‘Formal Feeling’ / ‘None of us well fixed’ / The Bears and the Bees / ‘We could be in any city’ / Echoes from the Cistern / Saturated with Light / The Flower Master and Other Poems by Medbh McGuckian / ‘This is Yarrow’ by Tara Bergin / ‘The Poison Glen’ by Annemarie Ni Churreain / Life Saving: Why we need Poetry / For the Desert Air /

Part Three: “Questions from an Ascendancy″

Snow, Goering’s Train, Hoftsetter’s Serenade / Mrs. Victor Rickard [Jessie Louisa Rickard] / Monument to Inner Space / The Death of a Fox / Reading Molly Keane’s Papers on Christmas Eve / Elizabeth Bowen and Molly Keane / Bowen’s Court, an Introduction /


Part Four: “That Ulster Question″

The Outsider of Irish Poetry / Documents of Exclusion / Incorrigibly Plural / Northman / Derek Mahon’s ‘Ophelia’ / A Shell Case Full of Flowers / Your Beautiful Life / Heroes and Nasties / Tides Revisited / Poet of Exile and Return / John Montague / The Prince of Quotidian by Paul Muldoon / Seamus Heaney’s First Anniversary / The Translations of Seamus Heaney / Collected Poems: Volumes One and Two by Ciaran Carson /

Part Five: “The Question of Cork″

James Barry, ‘Self-Portrait as Timanthes’ / ‘Like Maginn, A Corkagion’ : Bad Company for Daniel Maclise / A Quiet Voice that Lingers on / Sean Dunne: A Memory / Selected Poems: Sean O Riordain / ‘Nine Bright Shiners’ by Theo Dorgan / Quarryman: A New Generation Takes Control / Gerald Y Goldberg and Cork / Memoir of an Irish Jew by Lionel Cohen / Preface to a Planning Document / ‘The Lonely Voice’ by Frank O’Connor / University College Cork Conferring Address

Part Six: “A Question of Responding″

Poetry and the Memory of Fame / Praise in Which I Live and Move and Have / ‘My Being’ by Paul Durcan / ‘Collected’ Poems of Dennis O’Driscoll / ‘Blind Man’s Bluff’ by Aidan Higgins / ‘The Last Peacock’ by Gerald Dawe / Sharp Words from Elsewhere / August Kleinzahler and the American World / Peter Fallon: Poet, Publisher, Translator, Editor / Sinking Ships / John Keats by Nicholas Roe / Michael D Higgins, Poet / A Rebel Act / Memoir and Celebration / Speckled Bird of the North / Desmond O’Grady and Federico Fellini / ‘The Last Cold Day’ by Sara Berkeley/Company by Tom French //

• Keywords: Catalogue Irish History Seven – Irish Literature – Poetry – Music – Theatre · Catalogue No.10 – International Literature · Irish History – Rare · Irish Literature · Irish Literature – 19th Century · Irish Literature – 20th Century · Irish Literature – Rare · Literary Criticism – Rare · Signed · SIGNED
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 32153AB

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