Extractions: The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures IASIL Online Newsletter - Irish Studies News IASIL Conferences, 1970-2007 Join IASIL Now About IASIL ... Search the IASIL website IASIL was formed in 1970 with the chartered aims of: Promoting the teaching and study of Irish literature in third-level education throughout the world Facilitating international contact between scholars researching in the field of Irish Literary Studies. Serving as a vehicle for bringing Irish writing to a wider audience throughout the world In recognition of developments in Irish Studies, the Association's Members voted in 1998 to rename the organisation from The International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature (IASAIL) to IASIL - the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. Latest IASIL News, September 2005 The 2006 IASIL Conference takes place at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Verse.html Indepth source of links for ancient, mythological, and monastic Irish tales. http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bj333/verse.html
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Irish Literature It is uncertain at what period and in what manner the Irish discovered the use of letters. It may have been through direct commerce with Gaul, http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08116a.htm
Extractions: Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... I > Irish Literature A B C D ... CICDC - Home of the Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan Christianization of the island. It was eventually superseded by the Roman letters which were introduced by the Church and must have been propagated with all the prestige of the new religion behind them; but isolated ogham inscriptions exist on grave stones erected as late as the year 600. When the script was introduced into Ireland is uncertain, but it was probably about the second century. Although it answered well, indeed better than the rounded Roman letters, for lapidary inscriptions, yet it was too cumbrous an invention for the facile creation of a literature, though a professional poet may well have carried about with him on his "tablet-staves", as the manuscripts call them, the catchwords of many poems, sagas and genealogies. Over a couple of hundred inscribed ogham stones still exist, mostly in the south-west of Ireland, but they are to be found sporadically wherever the Irish Celt planted his colonies in Scotland, Wales, Devonshire, and even further East. Earliest Manuscripts.
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Extractions: Cúirt an Mheán Oíche the midnight court, which has attracted more numerous and illustrious translators than almost any other composition in Irish. Merriman and Raftery (Antoine Ó Reachtabhra 1784-1835), or indeed others of earlier date, have often been described as the last representatives of the tradition. By tradition here is presumably meant the concept of literature and the themes and styles of versification which had characterized composition in the Irish language, at least since the end of the Early Modern period. The reality is not quite so clear-cut. Though the nineteenth century was a period of severe disruption and decline for the Irish-speaking community, the cultivation of Irish literature was not abruptly abandoned. Mícheál Óg Ó Longáin, for instance, was active until his death in 1837. Besides him, the following at least deserve mention: Seán Ó Coileáin (1754-1817), a somewhat pedantic poet whose best-known poem is Machnamh an Duine Dhoilíosaigh Raftery, in fact, did not belong so much to this strand of the Irish literary tradition as to that of folk-poetry, which was no doubt vigorously cultivated at all periods. However, folk-poets of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries flourished late enough to ensure that their compositions came to the attention of the folklorists and collectors of the Irish revival. Raftery (1784-1835) owes his renown to Douglas Hydes edition
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Extractions: Alternative Irish Joke Home page The Irish have a proud history in the area of Literature, ranging from the "Book of Kells" to the latest 1997 Pulitzer Prize winner Frank McCourt for "Angela's Ashes" This is only a small example of Irish People and Organisations who have enriched the world of Literature Any comments, corrections or additions, please contact me at kirwilli@bigpond.net.au James Joyce. Born on February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland. His subtle yet frank portrayal of human nature, coupled with his mastery of language made him one of the most influential novelists of the 20th century . Joyce is best known for his experimental use of language and his exploration of new literary methods. His works include "Ulysses" (1922) A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man" (1916) and " Finnegans Wake " (1939). Each year thousands of people celebrate "Blooms Day" in honour of one of the characters in Ulysses Ulysses for Dummies James Joyce's Dubliners a Reference page Bram Stoker (1845-1912), Irish writer, best known for his classic horror novel, Dracula (1897). He was born in Dublin, Ireland
