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Book Synopsis The Midnight Court / Cúirt an Mheán Oíche by : Brian Merriman
Download or read book The Midnight Court / Cúirt an Mheán Oíche written by Brian Merriman and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banned and beloved in equal measure, The Midnight Court is a canonical eighteenth-century text widely considered to be one of the greatest comic Irish poems. Despite its simple storyline, Merriman’s poem addresses a wide range of themes from its satirical treatment of sexuality to its biting social commentary. This volume, the first critical edition, offers readers a fluid translation and five essays that contextualize the poem, making it an ideal text for any student of the poem and eighteenth-century Irish literature.
Book Synopsis The Midnight Court by : Brian Merriman
Download or read book The Midnight Court written by Brian Merriman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally written in the Irish language by the 18th-century poet Brian Merriman (circa 1745-1805), The Midnight Court is here translated by one of Ireland's distinguished contemporary poets, Ciaran Carson. This extended satiric poem assesses the growing economic, political, and familial constraints of late 18th-century Catholic Ireland under British colonial rule, while subversively playing on the tradition of the aisling (or vision) poem in which a beautiful woman represents Ireland's threatened sovereignty. At the beginning of The Midnight Court, a dreadful female envoy from the fairies appears in a dream to the unmarried poet. She summons him before the court of Queen Aoibheall in order to answer charges of wasting his manhood while women are dying for want of love. He listens to complaints that vary from the celibacy of the clergy to marriages performed between old and young for purely economic reasons. In all their bawdy tales, the female courtiers praise fertility, as well as sexual fulfillment, and condemn the conventions of the day. At last the Queen pronounces judgment on the poet, who awakens as he is being severely chastised by all of the women of the court. While containing many insights into 18th-century social conditions, The Midnight Court is also an exuberant, even jaunty work of the comic imagination. As the translator Ciaran Carson states in his foreword: "The protagonists of the 'Court, ' including 'Merriman' himself, are ghosts, summoned into being by language; they are figments of the imagination. In the 'Court' the language itself is continually interrogated and Merriman is the great illusionist, continually spiriting words into another dimension."
Book Synopsis The Midnight Court by : Brian Merriman
Download or read book The Midnight Court written by Brian Merriman and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cuirt an Mhean-oiche: The Midnight Court. Text and translation by Patrick C.Power by : Brian Merriman
Download or read book Cuirt an Mhean-oiche: The Midnight Court. Text and translation by Patrick C.Power written by Brian Merriman and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis CUIRT AN MHEAN-OICHE. THE MIDNIGHT COURT. BY BRIAN MERRIMAN. TEXT AND TRANSL. BY PATRICK C. POWER. by : Brian Merriman
Download or read book CUIRT AN MHEAN-OICHE. THE MIDNIGHT COURT. BY BRIAN MERRIMAN. TEXT AND TRANSL. BY PATRICK C. POWER. written by Brian Merriman and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cúirt an Mhean-oiche - The Midnight Court by : Brian Merriman
Download or read book Cúirt an Mhean-oiche - The Midnight Court written by Brian Merriman and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Midnight Court by : Brian Merriman
Download or read book The Midnight Court written by Brian Merriman and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cúirt an Mheán-Oíche by : Brian Merriman
Download or read book Cúirt an Mheán-Oíche written by Brian Merriman and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a racy, word-rich, bawdy poem; full of uncompromising language and attitudes which have earned it increasing admiration and popularity since it was first composed by Brian Merriman in 1780. The bachelor uninterested in marriage and the aged bone-cold married man, the spouse-hunting lady and the dissatisfied spinster: the celebration of a woman's right to sex and marriage; disapproval of clerical celibacy--all these elements form part of the subject-matter of 'The Midnight Court'. Years ago, few speakers of Irish were without some knowledge of this full-blooded piece of literature, while very many people could recite the entire thousand and more lines of 'The Midnight Court' in the version popular in their own area. It is one of the most interesting as well as entertaining survivals of the literature of Gaelic Ireland in the Penal times where humour, irony, literary tradition and sense of proportion had not fallen victims to oppression and humiliation. The translation supplied with this edition of Merriman's poem is an endeavour to come as near as possible to the rural expression and attitudes which are part and parcel of the style of the original. Although actual use of dialect is avoided, the translator has used words and modes of exprsession occasionally which are found in English as spoken in the Irish countryside"--Publisher's description, back cover.
Book Synopsis Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1612-1865 by : N. Rodgers
Download or read book Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1612-1865 written by N. Rodgers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-01-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles a hitherto neglected topic by presenting Ireland as very much a part of the Black Atlantic world. It shows how slaves and sugar produced economic and political change in Eighteenth-century Ireland and discusses the role of Irish emigrants in slave societies in the Caribbean and North America.
Book Synopsis The Midnight Court by : Brian Merriman
Download or read book The Midnight Court written by Brian Merriman and published by . This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Merriman's outstanding translation of this bawdy, erotic masterpiece of the Middle Ages.
Download or read book Halloween written by Nicholas Rogers and published by Oxford : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging, illustrated look at the history of Halloween illuminates the holiday from ancient Celtic ritual to billion-dollar industry. 32 halftones & line illustrations.
Book Synopsis Black '47 and Beyond by : Cormac Ó Gráda
Download or read book Black '47 and Beyond written by Cormac Ó Gráda and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the food source that we still call the Irish potato had allowed the fastest population growth in the whole of Western Europe. As vividly described in Ó Gráda's new work, the advent of the blight phytophthora infestans transformed the potato from an emblem of utility to a symbol of death by starvation. The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it brought misery and increased mortality to Ireland for several years. Central to Irish and British history, European demography, the world history of famines, and the story of American immigration, the Great Irish Famine is presented here from a variety of new perspectives. Moving away from the traditional narrative historical approach to the catastrophe, Ó Gráda concentrates instead on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. He highlights several economic and sociological features of the famine previously neglected in the literature, such as the part played by traders and markets, by medical science, and by migration. Other topics include how the Irish climate, usually hospitable to the potato, exacerbated the failure of the crops in 1845-1847, and the controversial issue of Britain's failure to provide adequate relief to the dying Irish. Ó Gráda also examines the impact on urban Dublin of what was mainly a rural disaster and offers a critical analysis of the famine as represented in folk memory and tradition. The broad scope of this book is matched by its remarkable range of sources, published and archival. The book will be the starting point for all future research into the Irish famine.
Book Synopsis Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics by : Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Download or read book Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics written by Nancy Scheper-Hughes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-01-03 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics, in its original form--now integrally reproduced in the new edition--is a most important seminal study of an Irish community."—Conor Cruise O'Brien
Book Synopsis A Brief History of Ireland by : Paul F. State
Download or read book A Brief History of Ireland written by Paul F. State and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the political, economic, and social development of Ireland from the pagan past to the contemporary religious strife and hope for reconciliation.
Book Synopsis An Irish-English Dictionary by : Patrick Stephen Dinneen
Download or read book An Irish-English Dictionary written by Patrick Stephen Dinneen and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis A Book of the Beginnings by : Gerald Massey
Download or read book A Book of the Beginnings written by Gerald Massey and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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