Pub Date : 2017-06-08DOI: 10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20758
Tracey Iceton
What was it like being a woman in the Irish Republican Army? Drawing on her practice-led creative writing doctoral research Tracey Iceton attempts to answer this question. Including extracts from Iceton’s PhD novel, Herself Alone in Orange Rain , this paper illustrates how her creative practice explores and represents the lived experiences of IRA women. A survey of Troubles fiction reveals how the genre stereotypes portrayals of IRA women and their experiences, misrepresenting the reality. Alongside this literary review, Iceton presents factual accounts of female IRA volunteers and outlines, in author commentaries, how her creative writing practice draws on these accounts to ensure her novel offers a more accurate fictional portrayal of female IRA volunteers and their experiences of active service.
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Pub Date : 2017-06-08DOI: 10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20750
R. White
Beginning in 1969, the Provisional Irish Republican Army conducted a paramilitary campaign designed to unite Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland, creating a 32 county democratic socialist republic. The Provisional IRA’s campaign officially ended in 2005, but former Provisionals and others who followed them continue to pursue armed struggle to this day. The Provisional IRA and its successors are part of the centuries old and highly documented “resistance” of Irish people to British interference in Ireland. Over those centuries, state authorities ‒ the British, Irish, and Northern Irish governments ‒ have “resisted” the dissent of Irish Republicans. This paper draws on three different research methodologies available to social scientists ‒ counts of events that inform quantitative analyses, intensive interviews/oral histories, and visual sociology ‒ and argues that a multi-method approach will provide a better understanding of the dynamics of “resistance” in Ireland and, more generally, social protest.
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Pub Date : 2017-06-08DOI: 10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20760
C. Rodríguez
Within the realm of Edgeworth studies, Whim for Whim (1798) has been a play unexplored by researchers until it was brought to light in 1999 thanks to the complete edition of Edgeworth’s oeuvre . This article focuses on three points in this comedy: drama represented a new genre for the Anglo-Irish author; Whim for Whim contains many topics later developed in Edgeworth’s canon; and Edgeworth deals with a very controversial issue, abolitionism, by featuring a black character for the first time in her writings. By referring to the work of post-colonial and eighteenth-century scholars, I argue that Edgeworth uses the black figure to affirm her reliance on enlightened tenets and her political position towards Great Britain as a Union; but, at the same time, there is a great deal of instability and criticism in her play suggesting that Edgeworth was not blind to the marginalization of the blacks in England. Also, the incorporation of other forms of slavery affecting the high classes and woman reveals that Edgeworth’s critique was extended to intellectualism and gender.
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Pub Date : 2017-06-08DOI: 10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20766
M. O’Donnell
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Pub Date : 2017-06-08DOI: 10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20755
J. Fernández
Samuel Beckett’s Catastrophe (1982), which is dedicated to Vaclav Havel, exemplifies in a direct way the idea of non-violent resistance. It is a short work in which an actor, who is going to appear before an audience under the instruction of a tyrannical director, performs an act of defiance with one simple gesture. The present article aims to explore the play’s effectiveness by setting it in the context of Beckett’s complex relation with Irish history. Catastrophe , hence, will be read from an Irish perspective, and the nature of Ireland’s presence in Beckett’s work will be analysed together with the subtle ways in which the author seeks to accommodate his own refusal to engage personally in a factious vision of Irish politics with a need to understand and interpret his country’s contemporary history.
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Pub Date : 2017-06-08DOI: 10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20761
Giordano Vintaloro
Brian O’Nolan, writer and civil servant, wanted the Irish to explore alternative realities and build a new country. He unsettled taken-for-granted relationships between words and things, and used storytelling devices to engage his readers. However, once his status had been achieved, he profited from his ‘specific weight’ in society to launch deeper attacks on conventional beliefs. As a comic writer, he had the duty to criticise society even at the risk of losing benefits. As Bakhtin noted, inertia is maybe the worst social threat. In this respect, comic figures function as actors of solidarity, and keepers of a “culture in common”, in Raymond Williams’s words. Brian O’Nolan the comic writer was a negotiator of change, offering a comfortable and distressing perspective, but in the end not as harmful as that of the ruling class. He let us peep into parallel worlds for the improvement of our understanding of things.
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Pub Date : 2017-06-08DOI: 10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20764
Danijela Petković
The paper discusses Joseph O’Connor’s novel as an investigation of a necropolitical event par excellence – the Great Famine. The mass production of dead bodies through poverty, starvation and disease is coupled with O’Connor’s struggle against necropower via the politics of visibility and naming of the victims, which results in the transformation of the necropolitical “acceptable losses” into Butlerian “grievable lives”. Naming the novel after the Virgin Mary, moreover, O’Connor engages in a complex relationship with Christianity: critical of the officials’ role in maintaining poverty, he does not negate the radical potential of the doctrine of inclusive love.
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Pub Date : 2017-06-08DOI: 10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20756
Neil Murphy, K. Hopper
Dermot Healy’s Fighting with Shadows (1984) features a broad array of technical innovations: the narrative focus shifts, temporal frames vary, and the inner and outer worlds of the characters frequently interchange, all generating a sense of a world that forever lies just out of sharp focus. Far from being a failure of observation, this registers a way of seeing that extends beyond merely linear modes of representation and is suggestive of a world that is not a neat, easily-observed set of phenomena. In this, Healy’s first novel, a compelling interdependence between complex narrative experiment and deeply-felt social and political engagement with the Northern Troubles is already evident. Healy’s work has always been firmly about resistance to received forms, political fixities, social malaise, and the limits of consciousness itself – and all in a richly-textured Irish landscape. This essay offers detailed analysis of how Fighting with Shadows exemplifies such acts of resistance while seeking to engage with Healy’s provincial Irish context.
德莫特·希利（Dermot Healy）的《与阴影搏斗》（Fighting with Shadows）（1984）采用了一系列广泛的技术创新：叙事焦点转移，时间框架变化，人物的内外世界频繁互换，所有这些都产生了一种永远不在焦点之外的世界感。这远不是观察的失败，而是一种超越线性表现模式的观察方式，它暗示着一个不是一组整洁、容易观察到的现象的世界。在希利的第一部小说中，复杂的叙事实验和对北方动乱的深刻社会和政治参与之间令人信服的相互依存关系已经很明显了。希利的作品一直坚定地讲述对公认形式的抵制、政治固定、社会不适和意识本身的局限——所有这些都是在一个纹理丰富的爱尔兰景观中进行的。这篇文章详细分析了《与阴影作战》如何在试图融入希利的爱尔兰省级背景的同时，体现了这种抵抗行为。
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Pub Date : 2017-06-08DOI: 10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20767
Carlos Menéndez-Otero
The text presents an edited transcript of an interview with Italian writer Pino Cacucci in Gijon, Spain, on July 13th, 2016. The subject of the interview is his latest novel, Quelli del San Patricio (2015), about a group of soldiers, mostly Irish Catholic immigrants, who deserted from the US Army during the Mexican-American War (1846-48) and under the leadership of John Riley formed a military unit, the Saint Patrick’s Battalion, to fight with the Mexicans. He mainly discusses what got him interested in the San Patricios, the process of turning history into narrative fiction, the criticisms the novel might raise for not being entirely faithful to historical fact, and the parallelisms that can be drawn between nineteenth century Irish emigration to the US and the current refugee crisis in Europe.
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Pub Date : 2017-06-08DOI: 10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20765
G. Tallone
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