Biography and Autobiography : Essays on Irish and Canadian History and Literature

The Circularity Of The Autobiographical Form: A Study Of Seamus Heaney's 'station Island' / Laura O'connor -- Sean O'casey: The Life In The Letters / Ronald Ayling -- 'the Follies Of One And Twenty': D'arcy Mcgee And Young Ireland: 1842-49 / Robin B. Burns -- Ogle Gowan: Aspiring Statesman And Stage Irishman / Hereward Senior -- Isaac Weld And The Continuity Of Canadian Poetry / D.m.r. Bentley -- Theory And Fiction: The Author Comments On At Face Value: The Life And Times Of Eliza Mccormack/john White / Don Akenson -- Dressing Up History: A Critic Comments On Don Akenson's At Face Value: The Life And Times Of Eliza Mccormack/john White / Roger Martin -- 'they Are Treating Us Like Mad Dogs': A Donnelly Biographer's Problem / James Reaney -- A Donnelly Biographer Creates: A Selection Of Four Poems And An Excerpt From The Puppet Play Sleigh Without Bells, With Introductory Note By James Noonan / James Reaney -- Between The Lines: Biography, Drama And N.f. Davin / Ken Mitchell. Tracking Down The Irish 'entertainers' In The Ottawa Valley / Joan Finnigan. Edited By James Noonan. Papers Presented At The 1991 Conference Of The Canadian Association For Irish Studies. Includes Bibliographical References. Cover Title Copyright Introduction I: APPROACHES TO BIOGRAPHY Biography and Theory, or, Beckett in the Bath The Nature of Irish Political Biography A Thematic Biography of Edmund Burke Religion and Reticence: Paul Cardinal Cullen and the Problem of Religious Biography in Ireland Writing Women into Irish History: The Biography of Fanny and Anna Parnell Excavating Nora Bio as it Auto be: from the Letters of George Bernard Shaw Memories into Images in Modern Irish Painting II: APPROACHES TO AUTOBIOGRAPHY On the Nature of Autobiography Writing an Autobiography Deformation of History in Blasket Autobiographies Reading the Book of Himself: The Confessional Imagination of St. Augustine and Joyce No-man's-land: Beckett's Bilingualism as Autobiography The Circularity of the Autobiographical Form: A Study of Seamus Heaney's 'Station Island' Sean O'Casey: The Life in the Letters III: STORIES OF THE IRISH IN CANADA The Follies of One and Twenty: D'Arcy McGee and Young Ireland: 1842-49 Ogle Gowan: Aspiring Statesman and Stage Irishman Isaac Weld and the Continuity of Canadian Poetry Theory and Fiction: The Author Comments on At Face Value: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack/John White Dressing Up History: A Critic Comments on Don Akenson's At Face Value "They are treating us like mad dogs": A Donnelly Biographer's Problem A Donnelly Biographer Creates: A selection of four poems and an excerpt from the puppet play Sleigh Without Bells, with an introductory note by James Noonan Between the Lines: Biography, Drama and N.F. Davin Tracking Down the Irish 'Entertainers' in the Ottawa Valley Notes on Contributors