Writing Lough Derg: From William Carleton to Seamus Heaney

by Peggy O'Brien

Book Overview

The overarching purpose of this volume is to show how a discrete tradition of writing about Lough Derg, a pilgrimage site in northwest Ireland, helped contemporary Irish poets rescue free, metaphysical inquiry from the grip of nationalism. Linked with the supernatural pagan times, Lough Derg had by the early twentieth century become an icon of the fusion of the Catholic Church and the Irish nation. Surveying treatments of Lough Derg from William Carleton...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815630980
• ISBN13: 9780815630982
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 10.1"