The Irish Literary Tradition

• Author(s): John Ellis Caerwyn Williams, Patrick K. Ford,
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Pages: 355
• ISBN_10: 0926689037
  ISBN_13: 9780926689039
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ,

Description:... 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 monastic scribes and the vernacular works of ecclesiastics and lay scholars. It describes the fall of the native order and offers appraisals of the work of Irish writers.