The Crows behind the plough : history and violence in Anglo-Irish poetry and drama / edited by Geert Lernout. - Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Rodopi, c1991. - 173 pages ; 22 cm. - Costerus ; new ser., vol. 79 .

'Most of these essays were delivered at the Second Easter Conference'--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references.

The tradition of vernacular hatred / Nina Witoszek and Patrick Sheeran -- Notes om Beckett's reception in Germany / Werner Huber -- Historical obsession in recent Irish drama / Gerald FitzGibbon -- Brian Friel's Making history and the problem of historical accuracy / Christopher Murray -- Staging history in contemporary Anglo-Irish drama : Brian Friel and Frank McGuinness / Ulrich Schneider -- Dancing in the borderlands : the plays of Frank McGuinness / Riana O'Dwyer -- The Gigli concert revisited / RuÌd̂iger Imhof -- The Great War in Irish memory : the case of poetry / Tjebbe Westendorp -- Desmond Egan : universal provincialist / Peter van de Kamp -- Traditionalism and modernism in Irish poetry since 1930 : the role of MacNeice / Edna Longley.

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