The Irish story : telling tales and making it up in Ireland

The Story Of Ireland -- Theme-parks And Histories -- Colliding Cultures: Leland Lyons And The Reinterpretation Of Irish History -- Yeats At War: Poetic Strategies And Political Reconstruction -- When The Newspapers Have Forgotten Me: Yeats, Obituarists And Irishness -- The Normal And The National: Yeats And The Boundaries Of Irish Writing -- Square-built Power And Fiery Shorthand: Yeats, Carleton And The Irish Nineteenth Century -- Stopping The Hunt: Trollope And The Memory Of Ireland -- Prints On The Scene: Elizabeth Bowen And The Landscape Of Childhood -- Selling Irish Childhoods: Frank Mccourt And Gerry Adams -- The Salamander And The Slap: Hubert Burler And His Century -- Remembering 1798. R.f. Foster. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 235-266) And Index. Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 10 Introduction......Page 12 1 The Story of Ireland......Page 22 2 Theme-parks and Histories......Page 44 3 ‘Colliding Cultures’: Leland Lyons and the Reinterpretation of Irish History......Page 58 4 Yeats at War: Poetic Strategies and Political Reconstruction......Page 79 5 ‘When the Newspapers Have Forgotten Me’: Yeats, Obituarists and Irishness......Page 101 6 The Normal and the National: Yeats and the Boundaries of Irish Writing......Page 116 7 Square-built Power and Fiery Shorthand: Yeats, Carleton and the Irish Nineteenth Century......Page 134 8 Stopping the Hunt: Trollope and the Memory of Ireland......Page 148 9 Prints on the Scene: Elizabeth Bowen and the Landscape of Childhood......Page 169 10 Selling Irish Childhoods: Frank McCourt and Gerry Adams......Page 185 11 The Salamander and the Slap: Hubert Butler and His Century......Page 208 12 Remembering 1798......Page 232 Notes......Page 256 B......Page 288 C......Page 290 D......Page 291 F......Page 292 H......Page 293 I......Page 294 L......Page 295 M......Page 296 N......Page 297 O......Page 298 R......Page 299 S......Page 300 T......Page 301 Y......Page 302 Z......Page 303 In this volume, Oxford Professor of Irish History, Roy Foster, is driven by his sense of the seriousness of history and a fascination with those who distort it. He examines how key facets of Ireland's past have been tampered with to serve a multiplicity of purposes. The idea of narrative is back in the air.