Daniel Corkerys Cultural Criticism Selected Writings

the long version

Daniel Corkery as cultural critic is a testimony to the sheer productivity of Corkery's eighty and more years. This book brings together oft-cited published material that is no longer easily available and unpublished manuscripts from the Corkery archive. The result is an edited collection that both reveals the central and recurring concerns of Corkery's critical writings and offers a unique insight into his wide-ranging cultural interests. Included in the collection are key chapters from The hidden Ireland and Synge and Anglo-Irish Literature, newspaper articles, literature reviews, a previously-unpublished essay and a radio broadcast. The book concludes with a selection of contemporary responses to Corkery's critical writings. This section of the book clearly indicates the strong reactions, both positive and negative, that his work originally elicited and allows the reader to situate Corkery within the intellectual debates of his day.