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An Irish quarterly review.
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The book concerns the new World Irish, tracing the developing profile of the Irish in America from the Famine forward. The studies draw their material from roughly a one-hundred-year arc of Irish presence and relevance in American life and they would serve as American as well as Irish-American studies.
"University College Dublin has been at the centre of Irish intellectual and cultural life since its foundation 150 years ago. And over those years a host of famed writers have either worked there as teachers, or attended as students. Here 28 lauded UCD graduates and academics focus on 28 legendary UCD writers, from the moving prose of Cardinal Newman to the revolutionary poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins, from Kate O'Brien to Mary Lavin, from James Joyce to Flann O'Brien. The UCD Aesthetic confirms the indelible legacy of UCD, a legacy still apparent today in the work of John McGahern, Maire Mhac an tSaoi, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague and Frank McGuinness."--BOOK JACKET.
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Despairing of his volatile, unstable wife, T. S. Eliot, at 44, resolves to put an end to the torture of his eighteen-year marriage.He breaks free from September 1932 by becoming Norton Lecturer at Harvard. His lectures will be published as The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933). He also delivers the Page-Barbour Lectures at Virginia (After Strange Gods, 1934). At Christmas he visits Emily Hale, to whom he is 'obviously devoted'. He gives talks all over - New York, California, Missouri, Minnesota, Chicago - and the letters describing encounters with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson and Marianne Moore ('a real Gillette blade') brim with gossip. High points include the première at...
"For thousands of listeners to RTE 1, Sunday morning means Sunday Miscellany. The programme's mix of 'music and musings' has evoked memories and provoked responses in its listeners for over thirty years and it is unique within RTE broadcasting for being on air for fifty minutes, un-interrupted by announcements or commercials." "Sunday Miscellany: A selection from 2003 and 2004 will give listeners-turned-readers a chance to revisit the places, to recapture the memories, to relive the stories, to hear again those Sunday morning voices that came across the airways so fleetingly and memorably."--BOOK JACKET.