Irish America
Irish America
On reading the correspondence of central early twentieth-century literary figures such as W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce, one finds the name of John Quinn appearing as a kind of oblique leitmotif, and his function seems to be as some sort of agent or patron or perhaps both. This shadowiness is at least in part his own creation, for Quinn … [Read more...] about The Mighty Quinn
A sampling of the latest Irish books on offer. RECOMMENDED Telling an as-yet-untold story about the heroic FDNY mission of September 11, Terry Golway writes: "Lieutenant Bob Bohack faced the dilemma of his career. He had his orders: He was to help extinguish the fire on the 79th floor. But those orders were given before he heard rumors of missiles, of more airplanes heading … [Read more...] about Book Reviews
The Ireland I grew up in was doubtful of its own identity. The school curriculum reflected a post-colonial lack of confidence and ignored Irish poets and prose writers in favor of English scribes. While I'm grateful for the grounding I was given in Shakespeare and the like, I mourn the fact that the words of Yeats will never come trippingly off the tongue like say, the poems … [Read more...] about The First Word: Payback Time
More than half a century after his death, William Butler Yeats is still Ireland's foremost avant-garde playwright. We return to his theatre work, in all it diversity and contradictions, not because we are sure of its place in the repertoire of modern Irish theatre, but because we are not. Yeats' plays are unsettled and unsettling, radically incomplete until methods of … [Read more...] about 1992 Yeats International Theatre Festival
Report on the Second Annual W.B. Yeats International Theatre Festival at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, August 2-25, 1990. The Abbey Theatre's second Yeats International Theatre Festival, "Masks of Transformation," was named one of the artistic highlights of 1990 by the Sunday Tribune of Dublin, Ireland. The Festival featured three powerful Yeats plays, Cathleen ni Houlihan, The … [Read more...] about Masks of Transformation
