A Study on Universal Significance of George A. Birmingham and Other Northern Irish Novelists

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370334
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Beppu University Junior College
• Principal Investigator: Yahata Masahiko 別府大学短期大学部, その他部局等, 教授 (50166568)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: ユーモアの重要性 / バーミンガムのアイルランドの歴史への影響 / 北アイルランド小説の新傾向 / バーミンガムの最初の短編小説の発見 / バーミンガムとウェストポート文学協会 / バーミンガムの子孫との出会い / ベルファストの変遷 / バーナード・ショウのバーミンガム評価

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I attempted to reveal the universal significance of George A. Birmingham and other Northern Irish novelists who are scarcely read in Japan. As for Birmingham, I verified that, through research on his correspondence with Douglas Hyde, Birmingham's early political novels had such a great impact that they might have changed the history of Ireland. After this disturbance, Birmingham turned into a humorous novelist and continued to write comic novels which show that humour is indispensable for reconciliation between human beings. That I could meet Birmingham's descendants and they offered me valuable materials were also of great use to my future study on Birmingham.

Free Research Field

アイルランド文学