Inventing Ireland cover

Inventing Ireland

by Declan Kiberd

INVENTING IRELAND is the most ambitious critical history of modernIrish literature to have been published for many years. DeclanKiberd argues that the Irish literary revival of the 1890-1922period embodied a spirit and a revolutionary, generous vision ofIrishness that is still relevant to post-colonial Ireland. Hedevelops his story through subtle and surprising readings of LadyGregory, Synge, O'Casey, Joyce, Beckett, Flann O'Brien, ElizabethBowen, Heaney, Friel and younger writers to Roddy Doyle.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?