Irish Tales by Sarah Butler: Or, Instructive Histories for the Happy Conduct of Life (Early Irish Fiction, C.1680-1820)

ISBN 10: 1846822173 / ISBN 13: 9781846822179

Published by Four Courts Press Ltd, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Irish Tales by Sarah Butler: Or, Instructive Histories for the Happy Conduct of Life (Early Irish Fiction, C.1680-1820)
• Publisher: Four Courts Press Ltd
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846822173
• ISBN 13: 9781846822179
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 180 grams

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Synopsis

Published in London only months after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715, Irish Tales is an historical romance offering a Jacobite reading of early Irish history, culminating in Brian Boru's victory over the Viking invaders at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014. The love story of Princess Dooneflaith and Prince Murchoe, son of the high-king himself, is played out against a backdrop of efforts to unite the people of Ireland in resistance to the Danish tyrant Turgesius. Remarkably, Sarah Butler draws her historical materials from one of the best-known Irish-language accounts of the Irish past, Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa (written c.1634), a major work of history that had not yet appeared in print, but which circulated in elite literary circles in Irish and English-language manuscripts. Irish Tales, then, stands at the nexus of Irish-language manuscript culture and English-language print culture in its exploration of the conflicting claims of the public and private spheres in contemporary life.