Landscapes with figures

"Landscapes with Figures is a new collection of essays by Liam de Paor dealing with the modern world order and Ireland's place in it. Themes include Ireland and the British Empire, the poems of Tom Moore, Seamus Heaney, Irish America, the IRA, modern art and the new Europe." "This book provides an oblique, insightful commentary on the history of Ireland, Europe and America since the beginning of the modern age."--Jacket.