Celtic Literatures in the Twentieth Century Edited by Sйamus Mac Mathъna and Ailbhe У Corrбin Assistant Editor Maxim Fomin Research Institute for Irish and Celtic Studies University of Ulster Languages of Slavonic Culture Moscow, 2007 CELTIC LITERATURES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY / Ed. by Sйamus Mac Mathъna and Ailbhe У Corrбin; Assistant Editor Maxim Fomin / Research Institute for Irish and Celtic Studies, University of Ulster. <...> They include chapters by Alan Titley and Diarmaid У Doibhlin on, respectively, Irish prose and Irish poetry, and by Ronald Black on Scottish Gaelic poetry. <...> Peredur Lynch discusses and assesses Welsh literature and Francis Favereau deals with Breton literature. <...> Donald Meek’s contribution fi lls a signifi cant gap in the proceedings in that it deals with Scottish Gaelic prose writing; more specifi cally, the author considers the infl uence of Christianity on some twentieth century Gaelic short stories. <...> Pбdraig У Fuarбin’s subject is that of landscape in the writings of the great Scottish Gaelic poet, Sorley MacLean. <...> Finally, Sabine Heinz offers an appreciation of the writings of the infl uential Welsh author, writer, and activist, Angharad Tomos, and Gwenno Piette (Sven-Meyer) examines the interesting and provocative matter of Breton literature during the German Occupation (19401944). <...> To put it another way: the book in which У Cadhain’s essay appears features lectures on Welsh poetry and literature, Scottish Gaelic poetry, Lowland Scots poetry, Writing in Breton and Anglo-Irish poetry. <...> Although containing in many — 11 — ALAN TITLEY ways the most extensive Gaeltacht, Connacht, until the arrival of Mбirtнn У Cadhain as a major writer in the late nineteen forties, remained, like its hurlers and footballers, permanently at the bottom rung of losers and no-hopers, in slumber deep and unknowing. <...> His other achievement was that he added the much-needed ingredient of imagination to that documentary literature which was growing in each Gaeltacht as scholars persuaded small farmers and fi sherman that they had something to say. <...> Some did and some didn’t. There was, of course, value in documenting the way of life, and more importantly, the language of the Gaeltacht while it remained strong. <...> In this sense, most Gaeltacht autobiographies and old-timers <...>
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Celtic Literatures
in the Twentieth Century
Edited by
Séamus Mac Mathúna
and
Ailbhe У Corráin
Assistant Editor Maxim Fomin
Research Institute for Irish and Celtic Studies
University of Ulster
Languages of Slavonic Culture
Moscow, 2007
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CELTIC LITERATURES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY / Ed. by Séamus Mac Mathúna and
Ailbhe У Corráin; Assistant Editor Maxim Fomin / Research Institute for Irish and Celtic Studies,
University of Ulster. Moscow: Languages of Slavonic Culture, 2007. — 280 p., il.
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CONTENTS
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Séamus Mac Mathúna and Ailbhe У Corráin
Twentieth Century Irish Prose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Alan Titley
Twentieth Century Irish Poetry: Dath Géime na mBó. . . . . . . . . . . 31
Diarmaid У Doibhlin
Twentieth Century Scottish Gaelic Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Ronald Black
Twentieth Century Welsh Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Peredur Lynch
Twentieth Century Breton Literature
Francis Favereau
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Big Ivor and John Calvin: Christianity in Twentieth Century
Gaelic Short Stories
Donald E. Meek
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Innovation and Tradition in the Drama of Críostóir У Floinn . . . . . 157
Eugene McKendry
Seiftiúlacht Sheosaimh Mhic Grianna Mar Aistritheoir . . . . . . . . 183
Seán Mac Corraidh
An Gúm: The Early Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Gearóidín Uí Laighléis
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Possible Echoes from An tOileánach and Mo Bhealach Féin
in Flann O’Brien’s The Hard Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Art J. Hughes
Landscape in the Poetry of Sorley MacLean. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Pádraig У Fuaráin
Spotlight on the Fiction of Angharad Tomos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Sabine Heinz
Breton Literature during the German Occupation (1940-1944):
Refl ections of Collaboration? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Gwenno N. Piette Sven-Myer
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