Product Description: "Opposing Viewpoints: The Republican Party: Opposing Viewpoints is the leading source for libraries and classrooms in need of current-issue materials. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected sources and publications"--

Product Description: An important part of the national imaginary, Yeat's work has helped to invent the nation of Ireland, while critiquing the modern state that emerged from it's revolutionary period. This study offers a chronological account of Yeat's volumes of poetry, contextualizing and analyzing them in light of Irish cultural and political history...read more

Product Description: Corbett explores fictional and nonfictional representations of Ireland's relationship with England throughout the nineteenth century. She considers the uses of familial and domestic metaphors in structuring narratives that enact the "union" of England and Ireland...read more

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Product Description: "Scholars and Rebels" must be essential reading for all those concerned to understand not just the complexities of nineteenth-century Irish intellectual culture and the emergent Irish Revival, but the formation also of Irish culture in the twentieth century. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Edgeworth is regarded as a pioneer in the development of the regional novel and the use of vernacular language. This study investigates her attitudes towards language and regionalism. It shows, by a detailed discussion of her major Irish texts - Castle Rackrent, Essay on Irish Bulls, Ennui, The Absentee and Ormond - how her intellectual 'Lunar' background, and her life in Ireland during the momentous years of the Union is reflected in the form and language of her writing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Sheehan, a parish priest in County Cork, began writing novels in 1895 to oppose the ideas of the Anglo-Irish Protestants that are now considered the heros of Irish nationalism. He worried about the future of Catholicism in an independent Ireland, encouraged his fellow Catholics to maintain a sense of pride in their religious heritage as the essence of their national identity, laid the foundation for the dominating role of the church in free Ireland, and advocated the isolationism that both the Free State and the Republic adopted...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Marjorie Howes' study is the first sustained attempt to examine Yeats' continuous search for political origins and cultural traditions through the most recent work in postcolonial theory. She explores the complex, often contradictory ways Yeats' politics are refracted through his writing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Yeats's Book of the Nineties is essentially a study of the major works Yeats produced at the height of that literary period known as «the Decadence»: his collection of short fiction, The Secret Rose; his 1899 volume of poetry, The Wind Among the Reeds; and the essay collection he titled Ideas of Good and Evil...read more