Ebook: Irish writing London. Volume 2, Post-war to the present

FC; Half title; Bloomsbury Studies in the City; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgement; Notes on Contributors; Timeline; Introduction: The London-Irish -- Insiders/Outsiders; Tom Herron; 1 Gaelic London and London Gaels in Dónall Mac Amhlaigh's An Irish Navvy; Jean-Philippe Hentz; 2 Borstal Boys and Cockney Chinas; Claire Lynch; 3 What She Lost and How: Eavan Boland's London Childhood; Lucy Collins; 4 Aliens: London in Irish Women's Writing; Heather Ingman; 5 Netherworld: London in John McGahern's Fiction; Grace Tighe Ledwidge; 6 Displaced Diaspora: From Deoraíocht to Kings;The presence of Irish writers is almost invisible in literary studies of London. The Irish Writing London redresses the critical deficit. A range of experts on particular Irish writers reflect on the diverse experiences and impact this immigrant group has had on the city. Such sustained attention to a location and concern of Irish writing, long passed over, opens up new terrain to not only reveal but create a history of Irish-London writing. Alongside discussions of MacNeice, Boland and McGahern, the autobiography of Brendan Behan and identity of Irish-language writers in London is considered.