Demostrates how the leading Irish playwright explores a series of dynamic physical and intellectual environments, charting the impact of modernity on rural culture and on the imagined communities he strives…

Poetry and Peace explores Longley’s and Heaney’s poetic fidelity to the imagination and their creation, through poetry, of a powerful cultural and sacred space.

“The author of such works as Lamb, Cal, and Grace Notes, Bernard MacLaverty is one of Northern Ireland’s leading–and most prolific–contemporary writers. Bringing together leading scholars from a full range…