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A setting (or backdrop) is the time and geographic location within a narrative, either non-fiction or fiction. It is a literary element. The setting initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story. The setting can be referred to as story world [1] or milieu to include a context (especially
Though the books of Forrest Reid (1875–1947) are not well known today, he has been labelled 'the first Ulster novelist of European stature', and comparisons have been drawn between his own coming of age novel of Protestant Belfast, Following Darkness (1912), and James Joyce's seminal novel of growing up in Catholic Dublin, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).
Unique to the 'Belfast Edition' and 'Dublin variant' are a few printing errors, such as the absence of a signature on page one and [ 16 ] on page [ 160 ]. [1] Other errors are 'Nineteenth' rather than 'Ninetieth' on the 'Contents Page' and on page 171 for the title of the poem "The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Pslam" and finally on page 188 "A Dedication to G**** H*****, Efq;" is printed ...
The Belfast Literary Society was founded in 1801, the second oldest learned society in Belfast (the Belfast Reading Society, now the Linen Hall Library, predates it by just over a decade). Its first meeting was held in the old Exchange and Assembly Rooms on the junction of Bridge, North, Waring and Rosemary Streets.
The earliest literature in Irish consisted of lyric poetry and prose sagas set in the distant past. The earliest poetry, composed in the 6th century, illustrates a vivid religious faith or describes the world of nature, and was sometimes written in the margins of illuminated manuscripts.
[1] Lynd was educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution, where he befriended James Winder Good and Paul Henry, [2] and studied at Queen's University. His father served a term as Presbyterian Church Moderator as one of a long line of Presbyterian clergy in the family. A 2003 essayist on Lynd recounts that his "maternal grandfather, great ...
On her return to Northern Ireland, she began to write books with an Irish theme. One of the first was a biography of Brian Moore which was described by the critic Seamus Deane as 'a crisp and intelligent account of a man and a writer for whom Craig's clean and incisive approach seems perfectly appropriate'. [ 11 ]
Michael Magee (born May 1990), [1] also known as Michael Nolan, [2] is a writer from Northern Ireland.. His first novel, Close to Home, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, was a category winner in the Nero Book Awards, and was the Waterstones Irish Book of the Year.