A History of the Irish Novel: 1650-2010

The Launch of "A History of the Irish Novel: 1650-2010" by Dr Derek Hand (English Department, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra), took place in Royal Irish Academy.

Professor Declan Kiberd of UCD launched the study and said of the book:"At once panoptic and intimate, visionary yet incisive, this profound meditation on the forms of the novel is one of the grand, essential works on the Irish imagination. Derek Hand's take on the Irish novel is a work in which interpretative audacity is tempered only by scholarly scruple. This deft and brilliant analysis combines a wonderful alertness to form and style with a sure understanding of the social world out of which so many classic texts have come."

 

 

 

 

Last Updated: Thursday May 05 2011