The Irish Comic Tradition

Vivian Mercier

Souvenir Press Ltd, London, 1991

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In this lively, erudite study, first published in 1962, Vivian Mercier set out to trace for the first time the unbroken comic tradition in Irish literature, from its oral roots in the ninth century and earlier, down to the present day. He finds the comic as the central tradition in Irish literature. 258 pages.

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