A teasing but affectionate study of the genius of the English people as seen from a postcolonial perspective - and of the game of cricket, which was one of their richest, strangest and most lasting gifts to the wider world.
Political failures and globalization have eroded Ireland's sovereignty-a decline portended in Irish literature. Surveying the bleak themes in thirty works by modern writers, Declan Kiberd finds audacious experimentation that embodies the defiance and resourcefulness of Ireland's founding spirit-and a strange kind of hope for a more open nation.
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