The Irish Reader Essays for John Devitt

"A collection of essays paying tribute to the celebrated teacher and scholar John Devitt. Contributors have sought to reflect Devitt's remarkable influence on Irish intellectual and educational life, producing essays that explore the various dimensions of experience and imagination that Devitt himself has explored with such passion and skill. His huge range of interests is reflected here in the considerations of key texts in the Irish canon by scholars of the highest distinction, in addition to essays on cricket, film and visual culture, Shakespeare and the predicament of the classics. The collection is framed by two previously unpublished poems, one by Seamus Heaney and the other by Dennis O'Driscoll"--Dust jacket.