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The Irish and the gift of the gab

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19950603
Author:John Kelly

Terry Eagleton has nothing to fear from the Trades Description Act. Anyone misled by his somewhat enigmatic title into thinking that this is a book about Emily Bronte or a discussion of the mid- Victorian novel, will find that it is in part all that, but that it is also far, far more. In a series of impressively well-informed and challenging essays, he charts the relationship between Irish literature and politics as they developed between the Act of Union at the beginning of the 19th century and the death of James Joyce.

Literature and culture have played a more prominent role in Irish ...

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