Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader

With five Nobel Prize-winners, seven Pulitzer Prize-winners and two Booker Prize-winning novelists, modern Irish writing has contributed something special and permanent to our understanding of the twentieth century. Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century provides a useful, comprehensive and pleasurable introduction to modern Irish literature in a single volume.

Organized chronologically by decade, this anthology provides the reader with a unique sense of the development and richness of …