Irish Expatriatism, Language and Literature The Problem of English /

• Main Author: O'Sullivan, Michael (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• Subjects: British literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature-History and criticism.; Literature .; British and Irish Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Literary History.; Postcolonial/World Literature.

This book examines how Irishness as national narrative is consistently understood 'from a distance'. Irish Presidents, critics, and media initiatives focus on how Irishness is a global resource chiefly informed by the experiences of an Irish diaspora predominantly working in English, while...