{"product_id":"a-history-of-irish-working-class-writing-hardback-9781107149687","title":"A History of Irish Working-Class Writing (Hardback) 9781107149687","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA History of Irish Working-Class Writing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book constitutes a wide-ranging and authoritative chronicle of the writing of Irish working-class experience.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael Pierse (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107149687, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 November 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e478 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 3.1 cm, 0.83 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Michael Pierse has done a great service to Irish studies in editing this first comprehensive examination of Irish working-class writing. A real joy of reading this volume is the nuanced and stimulating social analyses alongside literary readings, showing how reading outside the national framework opens up striking new ways of reading the fabric of the nation itself.' Muireann  Leech, Biography\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA History of Irish Working-Class Writing provides a wide-ranging and authoritative chronicle of the writing of Irish working-class experience. Ground-breaking in scholarship and comprehensive in scope, it is a major intervention in Irish Studies scholarship, charting representations of Irish working-class life from eighteenth-century rhymes and songs to the novels, plays and poetry of working-class experience in contemporary Ireland. There are few narrative accounts of Irish radicalism, and even fewer that engage 'history from below'. This book provides original insights in these relatively untilled fields. Exploring workers' experiences in various literary forms, from early to late capitalism, the twenty-two chapters make this book an authoritative and substantial contribution to Irish studies and English literary studies generally.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eForeword Declan Kiberd\u003cbr\u003e Introduction Michael Pierse\u003cbr\u003e 1. Writing and theorising the Irish working class David Convery\u003cbr\u003e 2. Representing labour: notes towards a political and cultural economy of Irish working-class experience Christopher J. V. Loughlin\u003cbr\u003e 3. Working-class writing in Ireland before 1800: 'some must be poor – we cannot all be great' Andrew Carpenter\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'We wove our ain wab': the Ulster Weaver poets' working lives, myths and afterlives Frank Ferguson\u003cbr\u003e 5. Sub-literatures?: Folk song, memory and Ireland's working poor John Moulden\u003cbr\u003e 6. Writing working-class Irish women Heather Laird\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'Unwriting' the city: narrating class in early twentieth-century Belfast and Dublin (1900–1929) Elizabeth Mannion\u003cbr\u003e 8. Class during the Irish revolution: British soldiers, 1916, and the abject body James Moran\u003cbr\u003e 9. 'An sinne a bhí sa chónra?' – Writing death on the margins in twentieth-century Irish working-class writing Michael Pierse\u003cbr\u003e 10. Writing Irish nurses in Britain Tony Muray\u003cbr\u003e 11. The view from below: solidarity and struggle in Irish-American working-class literature Margaret Hallissy and John Lutz\u003cbr\u003e 12. Irish working-class writing in Australasia, 1860–1960: contrasts and comparisons Peter Kuch\u003cbr\u003e 13. Irish working-class poetry 1900–1960 Niall Carson\u003cbr\u003e 14. 'A system that inflicts suffering upon the many' Paul Delaney\u003cbr\u003e 15. Drama, 1900–1950 Paul Murphy\u003cbr\u003e 16. Seán O'Casey and Brendan Behan: aesthetics, democracy, and the voice of labour John Brannigan\u003cbr\u003e 17. Reshaping well-worn genres: novels of progress and precarity 1960–1998 Mary McGlynn\u003cbr\u003e 18. Locked out: working-class lives in Irish drama 1958–1998 Victor Merriman\u003cbr\u003e 19. Poetry and the working class in Northern Ireland during the troubles Adam Hanna\u003cbr\u003e 20. Class politics and performance in troubles drama: 'history isn't over yet' Mark Phelan\u003cbr\u003e 21. Twentieth-century workers' biography Claire Lynch\u003cbr\u003e 22. Multiple class consciousnesses in writings for theatre during the Celtic Tiger Era Eamonn Jordan\u003cbr\u003e Afterword overdue: the recovery and study of Irish working-class writing, an international perspective H. Gustav Klaus.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literature \u0026amp; literary studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature \u0026amp; literary studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature%20\u0026amp;%20literary%20studies%20%5BD%5D%22\"\u003eD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004612268312,"sku":"9781107149687","price":102.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107149687i_40dd1be9-8f33-4e35-895d-2ef8e6d8bdc3.jpg?v=1691362292","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-history-of-irish-working-class-writing-hardback-9781107149687","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}