Way Back George Moores Untilled Field

The Way Back. George Moore, already an established author of novels, plays and short stories came to Ireland in 1901 at the bidding of his countrymen, W. B. Yeats and Edward Martyn, to help launch an Irish dramatic movement. He came not as a disciple of any movement but, in his own words, on a messianic mission , devoting his immense energy to the cause of the Gaelic League and to the creation of a thriving literature about Ireland in English. His impetuous involvement with Ireland for the next ten years led to the writing of two masterpieces: a collection of short stories, The Untilled Field, and a novel, The Lake. Robert Welch, Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds, commissioned and edited for The Way Back new and recent essays on these works of George Moore, an unjustly neglected artist and a major influence on the Irish Literary Revival. This volume offers a fresh and searching appraisal of these masterpieces and of the importance to Moore of his return to Ireland. Contributors include Declan Kiberd, Robert Welch, Richard Cave, Tomas O Murchadha, John Cronin, Clive Hart, Max E. Cordonnier and Joseph S. O Leary.A major reassessment of its subject, and an ideal way back for the modem reader to George Moore and to his The Untilled Field and The Lake. '