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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Maps, Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Narrators -- Introduction -- 1. 'The towering giant of the Irish automotive industry': The Ford Marina plant, 1917-84 -- 2. 'Giving the nation socks': Sunbeam Wolsey, 1927-90 -- 3. 'Endeavour, struggle and survival': Irish Steel, 1939-2001 -- 4. Working for Fords, 1917-84 -- 5. Working for Sunbeam Wolsey, 1927-90 -- 6. Working for Irish Steel, 1939-2001 -- 7. Employment, Inequality and Emigration -- 8. Gender, Status and Resistance -- Conclusion -- Endnotes |
| Summary |
"The book is arranged into sections by place, in order to best describe Devlin's life and diplomatic career: Paris, Dublin, Washington, London and Rome. Devlin's 1930s letters show his efforts to enter and energise literary society in Dublin, his subsequent disillusionment with the state of the arts in a newly independent Ireland, his struggle to find employment, and his wavering between academia and a career as a diplomat. The letters to Thomas MacGreevy, in particular, are replete with critical reflections on Devlin's own work and the poetry of his time. In wartime Washington Devlin forms lasting friendships with the most influential American poet-critics of the time, Allen Tate and Robert Penn Warren, and begins work on translations from the poems of exiled French poet-diplomat Alexis Leger, a project partly conducted through correspondence. In his final decade in Rome international poetry networks are cultivated, notably that surrounding Princess Marguerite Caetani and her magazine Botteghe Oscure. These letters reveal the pleasures and insecurities of diplomatic life, and the difficulties in conducting an active creative life in tandem. Following Devlin's death in 1959, the edition concludes with a "coda" of letters from his wife Caren concerning the foundation of the Denis Devlin Memorial Award"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ford Motor Company. Cork Plant -- History -- 20th century.
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Ford Motor Company. Cork Plant |
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Working class -- Ireland -- Cork -- History -- 20th century.
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Steel industry and trade -- Ireland -- Cork -- History -- 20th century.
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Textile industry -- Ireland -- Cork -- History -- 20th century.
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Steel industry and trade |
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Textile industry |
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Working class |
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Ireland -- Cork |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1782054138 9781782054139 (OCoLC)1143464543 |
| ISBN |
9781782054153 (electronic book) |
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1782054154 (electronic book) |
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9781782054160 (electronic book) |
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1782054162 (electronic book) |
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9781782054146 (electronic book) |
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1782054146 (electronic book) |
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9781782054139 |
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1782054138 |
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