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The eggman and the fairies, Irish essays, Hubert Butler ; edited by John Banville

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The eggman and the fairies, Irish essays, Hubert Butler ; edited by John Banville

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The eggman and the fairies

Oclc number

812452412

Responsibility statement

Hubert Butler ; edited by John Banville

Sub title

Irish essays

Summary

John Banville selects and introduces another virtuoso of Irish literature, bringing Hubert Butler's masterful essays on Ireland to a new audience. 'Hubert Butler is one of the great essayists in the English language, the peer of Hazlitt, Robert Louis Stevenson and George Orwell.' -- John Banville This volume contains an essential selection of Hubert Butler's essays on Ireland, written over four decades: reflective, autobiographical pieces which describe a local habitation and a place, but gravitate unerringly towards the great issues of the day <U+0127> neutrality, partition, censorship, religion, nationalism. With his incisive considerations of individual and political identity, Butler joins the great tradition of Irish libertarians going back to Swift and Burke.--, Provided by Publisher

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