Ireland in the Life and Work of C.S. Lewis

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<p>Even after he achieved world-wide fame through books such as <em>The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe</em> and <em>The Screwtape Letters</em>, the Belfast-born author C.S. Lewis &ndash; often regarded as uncomplicatedly English by critics and the general public &ndash; proudly and regularly described himself as Irish. What&rsquo;s more, he frequently incorporated Irish elements into his work. This includes, for example, numerous allusions to Irish mythology, the repeated employment of Hiberno-English and Ulster Scots words and expressions, and a preference for tropes frequently found in Irish (and sometimes specifically Ulster Protestant) writing.</p>

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<p><strong data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">David Clare</strong> is Lecturer in Drama and English at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. His previous books include the monographs <em>Bernard Shaw’s Irish Outlook</em> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and<em> Irish Anglican Literature and Drama: Hybridity and Discord</em> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and the edited collections <em>The Gate Theatre, Dublin: Inspiration and Craft</em> (2018), <em>The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, 1716-2016</em> (2 vols., 2021), and <em>Across Borders and Time: Jonathan Swift</em> (2022).</p>

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