Books by Bill McCormack

Taking the alleged death of Mrs John Hatch (nee Synge) in 1767 as a focal point, this book explores the varied strands of the Synge family tree in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland. It documents key events in the family's history, including a suicide in 1769 which is echoed in an early Synge play.

Radically revises the idea of a gothic tradition and traverses two centuries of Irish literary history to give a fluent and detailed account of the emerging relation between Irish culture, modernism and politics. -- .