Modern Irish Literature

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Reads modern Irish literature as an archive of contested cultural memory in which writers tried to generate a usable past for a public whose history has been defined by colonial oppression, enforced amnesia of their native language, and violence. Studies some of the best-knows writers from Ireland in the modern period, from Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and J.M. Synge to, more recently, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Marina Carr, Conor McPherson, Colm Toibin and Colum McCann.