Representing the Troubles in Irish Short FictionCatholic University of America Press, 2004 - 244 pagina's Representing the Troubles in Irish Short Fiction offers a comprehensive examination of Irish short stories written over the last eighty years that have treated the Troubles, Ireland's intractable conflict that arose out of its relationship to England. |
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... fire across the landscape . The beeches along the lane nodded down a withered leaf or two upon their heads , and the glossy trunks glowed a faint silver under the darkness of their boughs . A dog ran to meet them barking noisily . ( GN ...
... fire across the landscape . The beeches along the lane nodded down a withered leaf or two upon their heads , and the glossy trunks glowed a faint silver under the darkness of their boughs . A dog ran to meet them barking noisily . ( GN ...
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... fire once " ( VM 174 ) -as he and other republicans were retreating from gov- ernment troops in the mountains of western Cork . This experience , which became the basis of " Fugue , " the best of the stories of romantic nationalism ...
... fire once " ( VM 174 ) -as he and other republicans were retreating from gov- ernment troops in the mountains of western Cork . This experience , which became the basis of " Fugue , " the best of the stories of romantic nationalism ...
Pagina 160
... fires have been started in the area , perhaps , the policeman says , as diversions for a possible terrorist attack ... fire to his home and shot his son in a kneecap , but his family is other- wise safe . He also learns that two of the ...
... fires have been started in the area , perhaps , the policeman says , as diversions for a possible terrorist attack ... fire to his home and shot his son in a kneecap , but his family is other- wise safe . He also learns that two of the ...
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The Quest for an Irish Nation | 16 |
The Naturalistic Story | 55 |
Humor and Satire | 84 |
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