Browsing English by Author "Patten, Eve"
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From Enniskillen to Nairobi: The Coles in British East Africa
Patten, Eve (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)In the opening decades of the twentieth century a close connection was forged between Ireland and British East Africa (or the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya as it became in 1920) by three of the children of the fourth ... -
Imperial Refugee: Olivia Manning's Fictions of War
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'Modernity and Nineteenth-Century Ireland: the making of a "national reader"'
Patten, Eve (Rodopi, 2014)This paper examines ‘national reading’ in nineteenth-century Ireland in relation to concepts of Irish modernity. Through William St Clair’s framework of the ‘reading nation’, I assess historical descriptions of reading ... -
Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
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'Trinity Professors versus Men of Letters: Ferguson, Dowden and De Vere'
Patten, Eve (2022)This essay considers the relationships between Samuel Ferguson, Edward Dowden, and Aubrey de Vere in the late nineteenth century. In evaluating Ferguson’s career shortly after the poet’s death in 1886, W. B. Yeats considered ...