Masterfully blending narrative and interpretation, and R.F. Foster's "Modern Ireland: 1600-1972" looks at how key events in Irish history contributed to the creation of the 'Irish Nation'. "The most brilliant and courageous Irish historian of his generation". (Colm Toibin, "London Review of Books").[...]
Yeats is usually seen as a great modernist innovator. This book goes against the grain to explore the Irish literary traditions that preceded and influenced him--romantic 'national tales' in post-Union Ireland, the poetry and polemic of the Young Ireland movement, the occult novels of Sheridan LeFan[...]
This book offers a searing cultural history of the remarkable generation who transformed Ireland, from R. F. Foster. It was the winner of the times Literary Supplement Books of the Year and Observer Books of the year 2014. Vivid Faces surveys the lives and beliefs of the people who made the Irish Re[...]
This book presents a searing cultural history of the remarkable generation who transformed Ireland, from R. F. Foster Times Literary Supplement Books of The Year 2014. "Vivid Faces" surveys the lives and beliefs of the people who made the Irish Revolution: linked together by youth, radicalism, subv[...]