How long does it take to read Inventing Ireland?
Declan Kiberd
Inventing Ireland by Declan Kiberd takes about 13 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 11 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1995. 719 pages, about 197,725 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 58 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
INVENTING IRELAND is the most ambitious critical history of modernIrish literature to have been published for many years. DeclanKiberd argues that the Irish literary revival of the 1890-1922period embodied a spirit and a revolutionary, generous vision ofIrishness that is still relevant to post-colonial Ireland. Hedevelops his story through subtle and surprising readings of LadyGregory, Synge, O'Casey, Joyce, Beckett, Flann O'Brien, ElizabethBowen, Heaney, Friel and younger writers to Roddy Doyle.
Subjects: History and criticism, History, Nationalism, Irish authors, Intellectual life, Relations
