Ireland and Scotland : Literature and Culture, State and Nation, 1966-2000

Ray Ryan presents the first comparative study of literature and culture from Ireland and Scotland. Through comparison with Scotland, Ryan argues that crucial themes in Irish culture emerge with new clarity: themes such as Republicanism and colonialism, the city and rural divide, and the partition of Ireland into separate southern and northern states. He engages with a broad range of Irish and Scottish literary texts, few of which have received any previous critical attention.