Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland - Hardcover

Richtarik, Marilynn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0192886401 ISBN 13: 9780192886408

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Getting to Good Friday uses literary texts by writers with connections to Northern Ireland, including Brian Friel, Deirdre Madden, and Colum McCann to illustrate peace process developments in the lead up to the Good Friday Agreement, arguing that creative writers were both responding to contemporary events and trying to influence them.

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About the Author

Marilynn Richtarik, Professor of English, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia

Marilynn Richtarik was educated at Harvard University, where she earned an undergraduate degree in American History and Literature, and at Oxford University, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar. Her previous books include Acting Between the Lines: The Field Day Theatre Company and Irish Cultural Politics 1980-1984 (1994), Stewart Parker: A Life (2012), and an edition of Stewart Parker's novel Hopdance (2017). Richtarik is currently a Professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta, where she teaches British, Irish, and world literature. She spent the first half of 2017 researching and teaching at Queen's University Belfast as a US Fulbright Scholar.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192886401
• ISBN 13: 9780192886408
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 274