Wilde seems shoe-horned into the triumvirate, somewhat, in the sense that he is not remotely as identified with Ireland as the other two, whether that is fair or not. Not complaining, though, as it was a pleasure to listen to the exchange of thoughts on him as much as on the others.
@@hilariousname6826 I thought the same thing, but given his popularity, maybe they did not want to slight him. Oscar Wilde is interested enough to deserve his own conversation.
Seamus Healey,! A nice Man told the tales of my father and not nice to us at ballyscullion. Told the lives of us and my uncle.sam , good job to the awful poet ....x used our darkness for your fame....
Every generation who occupies a stratum of Land , is hemmed in by the Social structure , poverty and Dominant Perceptions prevalent to it...renegades, revolutionaries , poets and writers see this , and cant stand it...The density of it
This is just superb - one of the greatest literary critics and biographers in mutual interview with a nobel laureate chatting about 3 literary giants. What a pleasure. RU-vid is amazing at times.
@@gregleonard1562 No brainer??? Are you serious?? RU-vid drowns these videos in disturbing advertisements, and then says "pay us and they will go away!" Anyone who actually does that is a fool. No brainer, indeed.
@@Cathari Then spend your money on something less disturbing and stop complaining like a disintegrating snowflake, or is a case of a fool and his/her money are easy parted especially if the fool is being bombarded with intrusive ads they haven't bargained for. Sort the problem within yourself and stop blaming the outside world for being disturbed. Hope this helps. Peace
Ellmann was still working on the Wilde biography in '82, as I recall. It was published in 1988. Meantime, he was suffering the beginnings of Lou Gehrig's disease in '81-'82...living in the St. Giles house in Oxford.
Damn, what a treasure, what a pleasure - had no idea this even existed. Ellman's marvelous Joyce bio beyond its immense acclaimed merits has this also: almost every page has humor as well, I need to read again - it's been decades!
I'm not sure Wilde had a particularly Irish sense of place ? His natural habitat was the glittering salons / theatres of late Victorian London . Rather like Yeats ....and Shaw ?
True about Wilde and Shaw, but Yeats was very close to Ireland his whole life. He was the major figure of the Irish Literary Revival centered in Dublin, was partly responsible for getting the Abbey Theatre up and running, and was later a senator in the senate of the new Irish Free State. He was always much more involved in Irish political and cultural life than Wilde or Shaw; or Joyce or Beckett for that matter.
They are not Gaelic surnames like O’Neill or such. Joyce is actually probably the most native Irish out of them all. I think that’s what has been noticed. These people are mostly the descendants of landed Anglo gentry and not of the native Gaelic population.
Richard Ellmann is so much a kindly learned gentleman. The great Jewish diaspora contributed so much of value to our culture and times, bless them all.
Interestingly, this part ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xG2vTbERE4g.html appears to say 1982 [MCMLXXXII] while this clearly says 1992 [MCMXCII] ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xG2vTbERE4g.html @Helen Fontsere' any idea?
According to its listing at a university library, it is definitely from 1982. It does not appear to have much traction, and may even qualify as “lost media,” in the sense that there is very little information about it despite it starring poet Seamus Heaney. This documentary does not even have a listing on Letterboxd, and that site contains a listing of most everything ever once filmed.