Biography and Autobiography: Essays on Irish and Canadian History and Literature

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Introduction
I: APPROACHES TO BIOGRAPHY
	Biography and Theory, or, Beckett in the Bath
	The Nature of Irish Political Biography
	A Thematic Biography of Edmund Burke
	Religion and Reticence: Paul Cardinal Cullen and the Problem of Religious Biography in Ireland
	Writing Women into Irish History: The Biography of Fanny and Anna Parnell
	Excavating Nora
	Bio as it Auto be: from the Letters of George Bernard Shaw
	Memories into Images in Modern Irish Painting
II: APPROACHES TO AUTOBIOGRAPHY
	On the Nature of Autobiography
	Writing an Autobiography
	Deformation of History in Blasket Autobiographies
	Reading the Book of Himself: The Confessional Imagination of St. Augustine and Joyce
	No-man's-land: Beckett's Bilingualism as Autobiography
	The Circularity of the Autobiographical Form: A Study of Seamus Heaney's 'Station Island'
	Sean O'Casey: The Life in the Letters
III: STORIES OF THE IRISH IN CANADA
	The Follies of One and Twenty: D'Arcy McGee and Young Ireland: 1842-49
	Ogle Gowan: Aspiring Statesman and Stage Irishman
	Isaac Weld and the Continuity of Canadian Poetry
	Theory and Fiction: The Author Comments on At Face Value: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack/John White
	Dressing Up History: A Critic Comments on Don Akenson's At Face Value
	"They are treating us like mad dogs": A Donnelly Biographer's Problem
	A Donnelly Biographer Creates: A selection of four poems and an excerpt from the puppet play Sleigh Without Bells, with an introductory note by James Noonan
	Between the Lines: Biography, Drama and N.F. Davin
	Tracking Down the Irish 'Entertainers' in the Ottawa Valley
	Notes on Contributors