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In defence of the Irish essay
February 2012, as a good starting point to enter this particular conversation. 3 Derek Hand, The History of the Irish Novel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 42–3. 4 Mark Tredinnick, ‘The Essential Prose of Things’, The Land’s Wild Music (San Antonio, TX: Trinity University Press, 2005), 34. Original emphasis. 5 ‘Lyric’ and ‘experimental’ non-fiction of the type that Americans John D’Agata, Jenny Boully, Lia Purpura, David Foster Wallace and others are known for is virtually non-existent in Irish non-fiction. 6 Shawn Gillen argues, ‘Travel writing has