Modern Irish Literature (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Vivian Mercier
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Literary history and criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Power, personal or social, Politics, Literature, Religion, Social life, England or English people, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Catholics or Catholic Church, Drama or dramatists, Ireland or Irish people, Celts
Edited and “presented” by Eilís Dillon, Vivian Mercier’s widow, this volume is both a definitive study of Irish literary sources and a memorial to its author, who died in 1989. For the painstaking efforts of Dillon, readers will be grateful, especially because Mercier had originally intended to publish a two-volume study that he had considered “his most important work.” How much of this proposed text has survived in the present tome one can only guess. In reconstructing Mercier’s work, Dillon was fortunate to have her husband’s first draft and “many relevant...
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