The Best Are Leaving: Emigration and Post-War Irish Culture

by Clair Wills

Book Overview

Clair Wills's The Best Are Leaving is an important and wide-ranging study of post-war Irish emigrant culture. Wills analyses representations of emigrants from Ireland and of Irish immigrants in Britain across a range of discourses, including official documents, sociological texts, clerical literature, journalism, drama, literary fiction, and popular literature and film. This book, written by a leading critic of Irish literature and culture, discusses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107680875
• ISBN13: 9781107680876
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"