The first ever history of autobiographical writing in Ireland, based on original scholarship, and structured around key subgenres, themes, texts, and writers.

Zusammenfassung
This History is the first ever on autobiographical writing in Ireland. It contains twenty-five chapters by leading scholars that discuss different types of autobiography, common themes, important texts and writers. This book covers political, spiritual, literary, working-class and celebrity autobiography. It is an excellent resource for graduate students and scholars.

Inhalt

Introduction: autobiography theory and criticism in Ireland Liam Harte; 2. Writing in medieval Ireland in the first-person voice Máire Ní Mhaonaigh; 3. Early modern Irish autobiography Marie-Louise Coolahan; 4. Irish Protestant life-writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Elizabeth Grubgeld; 5. Irish women's spiritual and religious life-writing in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Maria Luddy; 6. Spiritual and religious life-writing in Ireland since 1900 Louise Fuller; 7. Irish political autobiography from Wolfe Tone to Ernie O'Malley Matthew Kelly; 8. The memoirs of male politicians in independent Ireland Eoin O'Malley and Kevin Rafter; 9. Women's political autobiography in independent Ireland Margaret O'Callaghan; 10. Autobiography and the Irish literary revival Nicholas Allen; 11. Irish literary autobiography since the Revival Christina Hunt Mahony; 12. The Irish autobiographical novel Jonathan Bolton; 13. Memoirs of Irish rural life George O'Brien; 14. The autobiography of the Irish working class Emmet O'Connor; 15. Irish-language autobiography Bríona Nic Dhiarmada; 16. Orality and life-writing in modern Ireland Kelly Fitzgerald and Mary Muldowney; 17. Southern Irish Protestant autobiography since partition Robert Tobin; 18. Northern Irish autobiography since 1960 Barry Sloan; 19. The Irish travel memoir I: journeys within Ireland Glenn Hooper; 20. The Irish travel memoir II: journeys beyond Ireland Michael Cronin; 21. Life-writing and diaspora I: the autobiographical writings of the Irish in the USA and Latin America Laura P. Z. Izarra and James Silas Rogers; 22. Life-writing and diaspora II: the autobiographical writings of the Irish in Britain and Australia Patrick Buckridge and Liam Harte; 23. The Irish abuse survival memoir Moira J. Maguire; 24. Irish celebrity autobiography Anthony P. McIntyre and Diane Negra; 25. Irish life-writing in the digital era Claire Lynch.