Offers concise and current information on Irish literature in three categories: significant writers, from the 7th century to contemporary poets and novelists; major literary ...

For more than half a century, James D. Hart's The Oxford Companion to American Literature has been an unparalleled guide to America's literary culture, providing one of the ...

Provides a history of literature in the Irish language from the fifth century to the twentieth. This book traces the development of manuscripts from the Latin records made by ...

It doesn't sound promising, but it works surprisingly well and offers considerable insight--a book-length chronology that identifies, explains, and interrelates events in Irish ...

"Gaelic language sources for medieval and early modern Irish history were the product of the bardic schools in history, poetry, law and medicine. Comprising annals, genealogies ...