{"product_id":"declan-kiberd-after-ireland-2017-hardback","title":"Declan Kiberd: After Ireland [2017] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIreland is suffering a crisis of authority.\u003c\/b\u003e Catholic Church scandals, political corruption, and economic collapse have shaken the \u003cb\u003eIrish people's faith\u003c\/b\u003e in their institutions. The nation's \u003cb\u003estruggle\u003c\/b\u003e for independence is thrown into doubt. But, as Declan Kiberd argues in this engaging survey of \u003cb\u003epost-war\u003c\/b\u003e Irish literature, the country's creative writers have been alert to this reality from the start. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe describes the young Samuel Beckett witnessing the burning of Dublin in 1916 and realising that \u003cb\u003e'the birth of a nation might also seal its doom.'\u003c\/b\u003e Surveying thirty works by modern Irish writers, Kiberd traces the response to the crisis of Irish Statehood in the work of Seamus Heaney, Edna O'Brien, Joseph O'Connor, Tom Murphy, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Derek Mahon and John Banville, among others. Placing these writers at the centre of Ireland's on-going exploration of the \u003cb\u003etrue meaning of freedom\u003c\/b\u003e, Kiberd shows how Irish artists preserve and extend a humane culture that imagines a renewed, more plural and open nation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKiberd's \u003ci\u003eInventing Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published in 1995 is a dazzlingly ambitious critical history of modern Irish literature and the standard work on the Irish Literary Revival. In \u003ci\u003eAfter Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e, Kiberd responds to the next generation of Irish writers, in this second renaissance of Irish literature. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kiberd, Declan","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47626483630419,"sku":"XV81786693228","price":13.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":47870800920915,"sku":"XE81786693228","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":50583471653203,"sku":"9781786693228","price":15.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/kiberd-declan-declan-kiberd-after-ireland-2017-hardback-1147302757.jpg?v=1742076807","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/declan-kiberd-after-ireland-2017-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}