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Fecha de nacimiento: 1867-12-31
Fecha de fallecimiento: 1960-10-23
Género: male
Nacionalidad: Ireland
Lugar de nacimiento: Mountcharles, County Donegal, Ireland
Lugar de fallecimiento: New York, New York, USA
Lugares de residencia: USA
Donegal, Ireland
New York, New York, USA
Ocupaciones: teacher
playwright
Relaciones: Carbery, Ethna (wife)
Biografía breve: Irish dramatist, poet, and prolific writer of popular stories, who played an important role in the rise of Irish national literature. Son of a poor farmer, MacManus became a schoolteacher in County Donegal and began contributing articles and stories to many Irish newspapers in the 1890s. Some of his best retellings of Irish fairy tales are in In Chimney Corners: Merry Tales of Irish Folk‐lore (1899). During the 20th century MacManus travelled back and forth between Ireland and the United States and became one of the most popular interpreters of Irish folklore for Americans through his collections of tales. Among his best works are The Bewitched Fiddle and Other Irish Tales (1900), Donegal Fairy Stories (1900), Tales that Were Told (1920), The Donegal Wonder Book (1926), Tales from Ireland (1949), and The Bold Heroes of Hungry Hill, and Other Irish Folk Tales (1951). Though MacManus often exaggerated the Irish aspects of the tales with a mannered style, he also expanded upon the Irish fairy‐tale tradition in innovative ways.

— Jack Zipes

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The Story of the Irish Race por Seumas MacManus

Revised Edition carries the history to 1938.

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Mapguy314 | 6 reseñas más. | Feb 2, 2022 |

The Story of the Irish Race: A Popular History of… por Seumas MacManus

So this book was very well written in my opinion.
The chapters were relatively short, which made reading a bit easier, and the breakdown of information could have been done a bit better, but this was overall a good book.
There were a lot of parts that I knew (or knew variants of), which was nice for me to read and see a different perspective (albeit slightly) on these stories.

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historybookreads | 6 reseñas más. | Jul 26, 2021 |

The Story of the Irish Race: A Popular History of… por Seumas MacManus

This was a very good read. The author presents their points in an easy-to-follow manner instead of listing years and numbers and droning on. MacManus instead writes the information in a narrative and this makes it a much better read in my opinion. It is very obvious that the author has researched all their information as their writing flows effortlessly from point to point. The information was great to read. I definitely learned a few new things about the Irish Race. I would definitely recommend this book to all who are interested in Celts, Ireland, or general history.… (más)

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SumisBooks | 6 reseñas más. | Dec 28, 2017 |

The story of the Irish race;: A popular history of… por Seumas MacManus

Every little Irish shop in america seemed to sell this book when I was growing up, and I got a copy as a gift from my mother at the time. I never got around to reading it then and the book itself is long gone, but I'm finally reading the text as an ebook. Unfortunately, neither the tone (unabashedly uncritical and ahistorical) nor the style (unnecessarily convoluted) have worn at all well since the book's initial publication almost a hundred years ago. Here is an example of the tortured prose:

"Even of Fursa's servant, St. Maguille, the memory is honoured at St. Riquier, where is his holy well, and where, more than four centuries after, and again four centuries after that, his body was enshrined in a very precious shrine, and re-enshrined with ecclesiastical honours."

Tolerant though I usually am of historical styles, I cannot see this as anything other than a failed attempt at "fine writing."… (más)

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PatrickMurtha | 6 reseñas más. | Jul 31, 2016 |

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