Pub Date : 2018-06-13DOI: 10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-23378
Patricia Hughes
William Butler Yeats had an extra-marital lover, Lily O’Neill or Honor Bright, from 1918 to 1925. Garda Superintendent Leopold Dillon murdered her on orders from Kevin O’Higgins, Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State. George, Yeats’s wife, reported falsely that Lily was a Republican spy. O’Higgins wanted to restore credence in the Free State, which would otherwise have been reclaimed by the British due to maladministration. Afterwards a bogus trial was concocted outside the court circuit by Chief Superintendent David Neligan, at which Lily was reinvented as a prostitute to conceal Yeats’s affair and son and hide the involvement of Free State officials. On the strength of false evidence the jury unanimously acquitted the assassin after three minutes’ deliberation.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-13DOI: 10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-23381
P. Mckane
This paper examines the role of the Ulster Women’s Unionist Council (UWUC) during the Ulster Crisis. When the UWUC was founded in 1911 dominant gender norms constituted the organization as an auxiliary of the male-dominated Ulster Unionist Council. However, within a year of its establishment the UWUC was the largest women’s political organization in Ireland. Yet the literature related to Ulster unionism and twentieth-century Irish politics and history has constituted the UWUC as a marginal Ulster unionist organization. This paper seeks to contribute to redressing this. It argues that the UWUC was not an “idle sightseer”, or passive observer, of the Ulster Crisis; rather it played a significant role during the Ulster Crisis and in constituting Ulster as a distinct and united polity.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-13DOI: 10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-23322
Carla de Petris
This essay deals with a number of works by poets, playwrights and novelists who tackled the theme of the Irish participation to World War One. The crucial point was about the divided loyalties of Irish soldiers enlisted in the British Army at a time when Ireland was at first fighting for Home Rule and later, on Easter 1916, engaged in a hopeless but decisive uprising. Can literature change the world? Yeats invited the poet to remain disdainfully silent in time of war but, notwithstanding this, was forced to deal with its painful consequences because of the death of Major Gregory, son of his dear friend Lady Augusta. Sean O’Casey had a totally different approach to the theme, using the theatre to create a collective response to its futility. Some decades later Frank McGuinness in one of his most successful plays maintains that “Invention gives that slaughter shape”. Francis Ledwige who died on the Belgian front, the only Irish “war poet”, gave “shape” in his poems to his own divided loyalties to Britain and Ireland, becoming years later a source of inspiration for Seamus Heaney, trapped in the Troubles. The second part of this paper examines novels by Iris Murdoch, Jennifer Johnson and Sebastian Barry who have considered an effort of recollection to tell fictional stories set in those ominous years in order to overcome the “collective amnesia” (Boyce, 1993) that tried to exorcise the deaths of so many Irishmen who fought during WWI wearing the “wrong” uniform
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Pub Date : 2018-06-13DOI: 10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-23323
Richard Cave
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At first glance, heteronyms may be considered as imaginary names, a kind of poetic signature. However, unlike pseudonyms, heteronyms are names given to fully developed characters that, in spite of being imaginary, possess nearly all human qualities such as physical features, biographies, world views, writing styles, etc. – characters that, surprisingly enough, are capable of having views in sharp contrast to those of the author who has created them. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), arguably one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century as well as one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language, is the writer credited with the development, naming and introduction of this concept into literature. However, considering the whole body of works produced by the Irish Nobel laureate W.B. Yeats (1865-1939), strong heteronymic qualities can also be discerned in a number of his works some of which produced about twenty years before Pessoa even started his career as a writer. Through a close examination of some of Yeats’s poems and other works, especially his short stories and the prose masterpiece A Vision, the present paper aims at illuminating the origins of the concept under study, as well as presenting its readers with the reasons why certain characters in some of Yeats’s works go beyond mere masks and personae and fulfil the criteria to be considered as heteronyms.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-13DOI: 10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-23386
Carla de Petris
To celebrate the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising, Constance Markievicz. Lettere dal carcere. L’Irlanda verso la libertà was published in Italy, edited by Loredana Salis who also wrote the preliminary essay, the introductions to the various sections and provided chronological references and footnotes; the translation is by Lucia Angelica Salaris, while an afterword focusing on the proto-feminist ideas of the writer of the letters was added by Cristina Nadotti. Linda Hogan, in her essay “Occupying a Precarious Position: Women in Culture and Church in Ireland”, has rightly remarked:
为了庆祝1916年复活节起义一百周年，康斯坦斯·马基维茨。来信问候。L 'Irlanda verso la libert在意大利出版，由Loredana Salis编辑她还写了初步文章，各部分的介绍并提供了按时间顺序排列的参考资料和脚注;翻译由Lucia Angelica Salaris完成，而后记则由Cristina Nadotti添加，重点关注信件作者的原始女权主义思想。琳达·霍根(Linda Hogan)在她的文章《占据不稳定的地位:爱尔兰文化和教会中的女性》中正确地指出:
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Pub Date : 2018-06-13DOI: 10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-23385
B. Keane
Recent reassessments have done much to show that Casimir Markievicz’s cultural activism in Ireland made unique contributions to its renascent cultural nationalism: his portraiture recorded key moments and personages of the age; whereas his role as a dramatist and theatrical impresario in thrall to Shaw, theatrical naturalism and social engagement represented a supplementation of the Celtic Literary Revival. As a further contribution to what is a growing awareness of the importance of Markievicz as a historical, artistic and literary figure, this article will seek to show that, following the breakdown of his marriage and his return to Poland in 1913, Markievicz would also play a meaningful if short-lived role in the emerging modernity of Warsaw’s post-war theatrical world. It will also look to assess why his career foundered, with consequences for his own literary legacy here in Poland.
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{"title":"Daredevils of History? Resilience in Armenia and Ireland","authors":"Dieter Reinisch, S. Kalayci","doi":"10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-23399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-23399","url":null,"abstract":"This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)","PeriodicalId":40876,"journal":{"name":"Studi irlandesi-A Journal of Irish Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43325793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-06-13DOI: 10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-23379
A. Binelli
According to the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, the ideals of many of the rebels who fought in the 1916 Easter Rising to free the country from a foreign power have not yet been attained by today’s Republic: among these ideals Higgins listed wealth redistribution, eradication of inequalities and progressive positions on women’s rights. The idea that the task taken on by the 1916 Rising is yet to be accomplished is widespread in Ireland and has often turned into a rhetorical strategy in texts addressing very different topics within different discourses. This paper aims to investigate how the futurology inherent in today’s collective memory of 1916 was revisited by Yes and No campaigners in the mainstream debate prior to the same-sex marriage referendum in 2015. Accordingly, the tools of Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Studies are employed to analyse how the potential outcomes of the referendum were framed by both Yes and No sides as (contrasting) accomplishments of a nationalist and supposedly republican agenda.
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