This volume analyses the works of the great Irish playwright Brian Friel, studies the founding tension between individual and collective history — written, re-written and infinitely open to the games of memory and language…
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Histoire et histoires
Martine Pelletier
Brian O'Nolan made himself know under the pen name Flann O’Brian as the author of the novel At-Swim-Two-Birds, precursor of postmodernism. Brian O’Nolan also wrote during 25 years and until his death the Irish Times column « Cruiskeen Lawn » under the name of Myles na Gopaleen…
Masques et humeurs de Brian O'Nolan, fou-littéraire Irlandais
Monique Gallagher
Despite his success in France and several other European countries, Kilroy, contemporary Irish playwright, is not well-known in France where his works have not been translated yet. His plays are resolutely modern by the form and the themes…
Thomas Kilroy
Émile-Jean Dumay, Godeleine Carpentier
The comparative study of two figures — Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler), who reigned in Wallachia from 1456 to 1462, and Dracula, hero of the eponymous 1897 novel — allows to define the nature of the relation between myth and history. It also allows to explain the genesis of a literary myth…
Mythe et métamorphoses
Claude Fierobe
This book on W.B. Yeats' poetry aims to make the approach to his often difficult poems easier and shows their beauty. After a chronology and an overview of the historic context, the first part « At the origin of the work » studies the numerous influences: celtic, oriental…
Jacqueline Genet
The selection of poems in this book is only made of Irish poems in a trilingual version, which allows the reader to witness the process of translating the poems and enter the linguistic multiplicity and the thematic unity of the text at the same time…
Pearse Hutchinson
Bernard Escarbelt, Pádraig Ó Gormaile
For Yeats, the concept of music in its relation to words originated in his interest in diction that stresses rhythm and thus gets close to chanting. He also associated music and writing, inviting the poets to write…
Françoise Henry's diaries record her experiences as a young French art historian and archaeologist on Inishkea (Co. Mayo) and relate her impressions of the landscape and society in the tradition of travel literature…
Carnets personnels
Françoise Henry
Barbara Wright
The Franco-Irish friendship has existed for many centuries and continues to flourish today. This book draws attention to the rich tapestry of interconnections between France and Ireland from the XVIth to the XXIst centuries, unveiling often colourful figures…
Catherine Maignant
According to Seamus Deane, Field Day addresses the issue of Irish identity in the context of the situation as a colonial crisis. He shows that religious sectarianism in Northern Ireland is linked to the interaction between the contrasting British and Irish stereotypes…
Nouvelle édition identique à celle de 1994Livre de la compagnie Field Day
Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson
Seamus Deane
Ginette Emprin, Jacqueline Genet
This book deals with an aspect of Yeats' work never systematically addressed: experiments conducted by the poet throughout his career to create a scenic practice that articulates words and music, a practice that serves as closely as possible an idea of "theatrical utopia"...
L'acteur et sa voix à l'Abbey Theatre de Dublin
Pierre Longuenesse
