The Road to Dungannon: Journeys in Literary Ireland Michael Patrick Pearson

The Road to Dungannon: Journeys in Literary Ireland Michael Patrick Pearson – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781476691596,1476691592, 9781476650418, 1476650411

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• ISBN 10: 1476650411
• ISBN 13:9781476650418
• Author: Michael Patrick Pearson

Chasing after a family secret–a curious silence surrounding a long-lost ancestor–led the author on a pilgrimage through the landscape, history and literature of Ireland. His journey of self-discovery, flavored by poems, stories, lore and legend, reflects his idea that literature may be the key that explains the past and reveals the present. Serving as part memoir and part journalistic chronicle, this work offers a unique look at how memory, literature and travel shape one’s definition of oneself. Also serving as a love letter to Ireland with chapters on native born authors such as James Joyce, Frank O’Connor, Seamus Heaney and more, this book explores the deeper influences of what makes a man a writer, scholar, adventurer, husband and father.

Table contents:

Chapter 1
The Rocky Road to Dublin and Beyond
Chapter 2
Memory and Imagination
Chapter 3
Joyce and Modern Ireland
Chapter 4
Yeats, Sligo, and the West
Chapter 5
J.M. Synge and the Aran Islands
Chapter 6
Frank O’Connor and Cork
Chapter 7
Edna O’Brien—A Country Girl in the West
Chapter 8
Seamus Heaney and Northern Ireland
Chapter 9
Writers of the New Ireland
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