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Summary:

Novelist, short-story writer, critic, memoirist, broadcaster and journalist: Benedict Kiely (1919-2007) was not only one of the best known but one of the most artistically and culturally distinctive men of letters of his day. His fascination with the island of Ireland, the myths and memories of its people, and the many-voiced quality of its traditions, has secured for him a unique place in the country's literary history.His substantial body of fiction and non-fiction is a repository of lore and learning, and amply rewards not only the interest shown in it over many years by his popularity among the general public, but also that of Irish and international literary scholarship.Strangely, however, despite his renowned reputation and canonical status, Kiely remains a writer whose work has generated surprisingly little secondary literature, academic or otherwise. This charming collection of twelve essays by some of Ireland's foremost writers and esteemed international critics, in this, his centenary year, will breathe new life into Kiely's work and place him back where he belongs, at the heart of Irish literature.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Benedict Kiely, Singular and Plural / George O'Brien
• Benedict Kiely in His Own Time / Brian Fallon
• Out of Omagh / Martina Devlin
• Unfortunate Country: Reading Benedict Kiely's Poor Scholar, 1974
• 2018 / Gerald Dawe
• Benedict Kiely and the 1950s: The Struggle to be Modern / Derek Hand
• ̀He Could Recite All Night': An Appreciation of Benedict Kiely / Patricia Craig
• Light of Other Days: Revolving Many Memories / John Wilson Foster
• Traveller / Paul Clements
• Ì Was the Stranger Who Had Once Been the Guide': Benedict Kiely's Americans / Christopher Cahill
• À Dark Writer': The Other Side of Benedict Kiely / Thomas Kilroy
• Treacherous Waves of Lough Muck: A Hypertextual Reading of Proxopera / Thomas O'Grady
• Seanchai and Silence / Colum Mccann
• Select Bibliography / Benedict Kiely.

Contributors:

O'Brien, George , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Kiely, Benedict — Criticism and interpretation

Northern Ireland — In literature

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 24, 2019).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

PR6021.I24 I5 2019eb

ISBNs:

9781788550901 (electronic bk.)
1788550900 (electronic bk.)
9781788550888 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1108871777

Other Control Numbers:

2199123 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp300711233