The aim of this investigation is to reconsider the cultural confrontation between England and Ireland from a new methodological perspective, and to trace how th

'Can we not build up a national tradition, a national literature, which shall be none the less Irish in spirit from being English in language?' W. B. YeatsThis

The first sustained consideration of the roles played by Elizabeth and by the Irish in shaping relations between the realms.

This novel intervenes in many of the literary and philosophical debates of the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, forging a connection betwee