ISBN 978-0-268-04232-5$25.00 / £22.50 paper • 296 pages

“In this book of literary tourism, Tillinghast includes essays on Ireland’s major literary figures as well as on contemporary Irish culture. . . . What distinguishes this book is Tillinghast’s blend of tourist information and insightful criticism. Whether planning a trip or just fascinated by Ireland’s rich history and literary contributions, readers will enjoy this book. Recommended for public collections.” —Library JournaL

“. . . this book is not about Richard Tillinghast finding himself, but about his helping us to find Ireland. It needs finding because large parts of it seem to have been mislaid, or gone altogether. There is, for instance, the Anglo-Irish tradition. . . . Best of all, are Tillinghast’s chapters on contemporary poets. He has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the top reviewers of poetry in the U.S. . . . Finding Ireland is written for Americans. . . . Yet the book deserves a readership both here and there. It enacts the belief that literature is a form of pleasure, woven out of history and society, and weaving its way into the personal lives of readers anywhere.” —The irish Times

“This is the book to give anyone going to Ireland for the first—or the twentieth —time. Tillinghast tells us where traditional music is best heard, and how to look at Gandon’s Custom House and the Rock of Cashel. But he also recognizes that there is, as Yeats reminds us, ‘an Ireland/The poets have imagined, terrible and gay.’ Finding Ireland offers a sensitive introduction to that other Ireland in a series of meditations on Irish writers and the places they evoke for us, abiding presences even in today’s bustling republic of high-rises and industrial parks.” —RobeRt tRacy, University of California, Berkeley

“Tillinghast offers an affectionate, questioning exploration of Ireland’s literary inheritance and a poet’s keen sense of the places which have inspired the country’s writers. He is alert, too, to the continuities and changes which charac-terize current experience.” —teRence bRown, Trinity College, Dublin

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Richard Tillinghast, a celebrated American

poet and critic, lived for a year in Ireland in the

early 1990s and returned each year until he be-

came a resident in 2005. In Finding Ireland,

Tillinghast writes from an insider/outsider per-

spective, vividly describing the land and people

of his adopted home, its culture, literature, and

long, complex history. most of Finding Ireland is

devoted to thoughtful readings of works by Irish

writers and playwrights, including W. B. Yeats,

Seamus Heaney, oscar Wilde, and Brian friel,

as well as lesser-known names deserving a

wider readership. Tillinghast also considers the

significant contributions of Anglo-Irish authors,

such as John millington Synge and elizabeth

Bowen, with excursions into Irish architecture,

music, and garden design.

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RICHARD TILLINGHAST’s most recent poetry and essay collections are The New Life and Poetry and What Is Real, respectively. He lives in County Tipperary.

Finding ireland A poeT’S exploRATIonS of IRISH lITeRATURe And CUlTURe

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