If Ireland keeps eternal values, it is also a country that, yesterday economically under-developed, is now preparing, slowly but surely, its entry into the twenty-first century. This unprecedented mutation in its already turbulent history, affects Irish politics, industry, trade…

Irish literature has not received the critical attention it deserves, except for its giants: Yeats in poetry, Synge and O'Cosey in theatre, Joyce… In the genre of the novel, he is far from being the only one…

Wherever the deep reasons for the success of the short story in Ireland come from — the historical, sociological or aesthetical progression of the country — it is a well-known fact, together with the excellence of numerous of its followers, from Carleton to John McGahern, from George Moore to the inevitable Joyce…

The histories of western romanticism have until now forgotten Ireland whose literature in English is often believed to have began with Joyce, Yeats or O'Casey. This book is an attempt to take care of this oversight…

The figure of James Joyce in Paris is no longer or hardly the wouldbe medical of 1903, disescting Aristotle and making game of Thomas Aquinas. "Prix de Paris: beware of imitations". It is somewhat that of threatened canonization which friendship still portrays. It is also, really, the author once-removed, in exchange for speech effects, a sheaf...