{"title":"Emilie Pine, The Memory Marketplace: Witnessing Pain in Contemporary Irish and International Theatre","authors":"Melissa Sihra","doi":"10.3366/iur.2022.0554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2022.0554","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47156567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deaglán Ó Donghaile, Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siècle","authors":"J. Killeen","doi":"10.3366/iur.2022.0551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2022.0551","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45784323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"N. C. Fleming and James H. Murphy (editors), Ireland and Partition: Contexts and Consequences","authors":"Stephen O'Neill","doi":"10.3366/iur.2022.0553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2022.0553","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46618977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Writing to Peter Fallon of the independent Irish publishing house Gallery Press in 1985, the poet Medbh McGuckian uncharacteristically signed the note ‘Maeve’, the Anglicized spelling of her name, with the explanation that, ‘I use that name as the letter was written by me and the poems by the other. So rejecting me does not entail accepting either of us’. This enigmatic note suggests that McGuckian perceives the personae in her poems as separate from the woman who writes them. To comprehend her poems, which are at once intricate, dynamic, and oblique, we must attempt to understand the other ‘Maeve’ whose prolific literary career has been shaped by challenges and opportunities posed by British, Irish and American publishing institutions. Using correspondence between the poet and her publishers archived at Emory University and Oxford University Press, this article explores Medbh McGuckian’s controversial transition from the Oxford Poets’ list to Gallery Press in 1991. It draws attention to the paratextual history of a little-known epigraph that quotes a letter which Roger Casement wrote to his sister from Banna Strand not long before his untimely death in 1916. By tracing the movement of the epigraph through McGuckian’s correspondence with publishing institutions, this essay examines the political perspectives at stake in Irish literary publication and considers the challenges contemporary Irish women poets face as they negotiate their personal and professional interests with those of publishing institutions.
{"title":"Searching for ‘Maeve’: An Archival Examination of Medbh McGuckian’s Early Career as a Poet in Northern Ireland","authors":"M. Bethala","doi":"10.3366/iur.2022.0541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2022.0541","url":null,"abstract":"Writing to Peter Fallon of the independent Irish publishing house Gallery Press in 1985, the poet Medbh McGuckian uncharacteristically signed the note ‘Maeve’, the Anglicized spelling of her name, with the explanation that, ‘I use that name as the letter was written by me and the poems by the other. So rejecting me does not entail accepting either of us’. This enigmatic note suggests that McGuckian perceives the personae in her poems as separate from the woman who writes them. To comprehend her poems, which are at once intricate, dynamic, and oblique, we must attempt to understand the other ‘Maeve’ whose prolific literary career has been shaped by challenges and opportunities posed by British, Irish and American publishing institutions. Using correspondence between the poet and her publishers archived at Emory University and Oxford University Press, this article explores Medbh McGuckian’s controversial transition from the Oxford Poets’ list to Gallery Press in 1991. It draws attention to the paratextual history of a little-known epigraph that quotes a letter which Roger Casement wrote to his sister from Banna Strand not long before his untimely death in 1916. By tracing the movement of the epigraph through McGuckian’s correspondence with publishing institutions, this essay examines the political perspectives at stake in Irish literary publication and considers the challenges contemporary Irish women poets face as they negotiate their personal and professional interests with those of publishing institutions.","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43914737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay explores the potential for curatorial practice in a public history context to be engaged as a research practice. It focuses on the development of an exhibition on the history of St Davnet’s Hospital in Monaghan, which first opened as the Monaghan District Lunatic Asylum in 1869. The essay traces the development of this exhibition, and the significance of its location in a local authority museum context. Positioning the exhibition in the context of similar or related public history projects on the subject of psychiatric history, the essay reflects on the processes and practice of curating as a way of generating new insights. In particular, it considers practices of engagement and shared authority that are at the heart of public history practice, as well as contemplating the significance of working with material objects and their associated narratives. This examination of the ‘World Within Walls’ case study identifies curating as a significant research practice that generates new knowledge, rather than as a means of demonstrating or showcasing the results of prior work, particularly in the public history context.
{"title":"Curatorial Practice and Public History: Reflections on the ‘World Within Walls’ Exhibition","authors":"Niamh NicGhabhann","doi":"10.3366/iur.2022.0543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2022.0543","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores the potential for curatorial practice in a public history context to be engaged as a research practice. It focuses on the development of an exhibition on the history of St Davnet’s Hospital in Monaghan, which first opened as the Monaghan District Lunatic Asylum in 1869. The essay traces the development of this exhibition, and the significance of its location in a local authority museum context. Positioning the exhibition in the context of similar or related public history projects on the subject of psychiatric history, the essay reflects on the processes and practice of curating as a way of generating new insights. In particular, it considers practices of engagement and shared authority that are at the heart of public history practice, as well as contemplating the significance of working with material objects and their associated narratives. This examination of the ‘World Within Walls’ case study identifies curating as a significant research practice that generates new knowledge, rather than as a means of demonstrating or showcasing the results of prior work, particularly in the public history context.","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49128417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay considers the relationships between Samuel Ferguson, Edward Dowden, and Aubrey de Vere in the late nineteenth century. In evaluating Ferguson’s career shortly after the poet’s death in 1886, W. B. Yeats considered him as being ill-served by the ‘English notions’ of Irish criticism, a slight which was particularly directed at Edward Dowden, then Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin. Rather than viewing this schism solely as a difference of opinion on Gaelic antiquarianism and Celtic Revivalism, this essay considers the divergence between these men as an effect of their respective positioning inside and outside the institutions of academia. It also interprets their relationship against the backdrop of public debates in the period about the nature of literary criticism as well as the role and function of the critic. Drawing on the correspondence between Ferguson, Dowden, and their mutual friend and frequent intermediary Aubrey de Vere, this essay examines how their friendship was affected by a growing distinction between the ‘man of letters’ and the professional academic in the later Victorian period. In particular, it offers an alternative view of Dowden, whose public commitment to the development of English Literature as an academic subject was sometimes belied by his private warmth towards Ferguson and his project of Celtic Revivalism.
{"title":"Trinity Professors versus Men of Letters: Ferguson, Dowden and De Vere","authors":"E. Patten","doi":"10.3366/iur.2022.0547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2022.0547","url":null,"abstract":"This essay considers the relationships between Samuel Ferguson, Edward Dowden, and Aubrey de Vere in the late nineteenth century. In evaluating Ferguson’s career shortly after the poet’s death in 1886, W. B. Yeats considered him as being ill-served by the ‘English notions’ of Irish criticism, a slight which was particularly directed at Edward Dowden, then Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin. Rather than viewing this schism solely as a difference of opinion on Gaelic antiquarianism and Celtic Revivalism, this essay considers the divergence between these men as an effect of their respective positioning inside and outside the institutions of academia. It also interprets their relationship against the backdrop of public debates in the period about the nature of literary criticism as well as the role and function of the critic. Drawing on the correspondence between Ferguson, Dowden, and their mutual friend and frequent intermediary Aubrey de Vere, this essay examines how their friendship was affected by a growing distinction between the ‘man of letters’ and the professional academic in the later Victorian period. In particular, it offers an alternative view of Dowden, whose public commitment to the development of English Literature as an academic subject was sometimes belied by his private warmth towards Ferguson and his project of Celtic Revivalism.","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42862807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The National Library of Ireland (NLI) became a legal deposit library in 1927, joining Trinity College which had been, since 1801, subject to British legal-deposit legislation. These two institutions were to form the backbone of the country’s large-scale collection and preservation of written heritage during the twentieth century. In augmenting their collections during this time, they faced similar challenges of space and finance, while also benefitting from the dispersal of major private libraries of big houses in the post-civil war era. This article examines the acquisitions policies of these two libraries in the context of broader trends in the rare book trade. It considers the shifting sands of public and university budgets for library-building during the latter half of the twentieth century and examines where books and archives of Irish interest were bought and sold. In particular, it addresses the impact of the growth of US universities and specialist libraries on the market for Irish material from the 1960s onwards. Responding to this increased competition, the Irish institutions managed their collections and acquisitions in new ways, often at increased cost and using selective buying practices. Drawing on catalogues of sales, auctions and library records, this article offers a broad appreciation of the literary-institutional landscape in a period of vast change in Ireland.
{"title":"Institutional Libraries and Book Collecting Practices in Ireland, 1960–2000","authors":"Nora Moroney","doi":"10.3366/iur.2022.0539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2022.0539","url":null,"abstract":"The National Library of Ireland (NLI) became a legal deposit library in 1927, joining Trinity College which had been, since 1801, subject to British legal-deposit legislation. These two institutions were to form the backbone of the country’s large-scale collection and preservation of written heritage during the twentieth century. In augmenting their collections during this time, they faced similar challenges of space and finance, while also benefitting from the dispersal of major private libraries of big houses in the post-civil war era. This article examines the acquisitions policies of these two libraries in the context of broader trends in the rare book trade. It considers the shifting sands of public and university budgets for library-building during the latter half of the twentieth century and examines where books and archives of Irish interest were bought and sold. In particular, it addresses the impact of the growth of US universities and specialist libraries on the market for Irish material from the 1960s onwards. Responding to this increased competition, the Irish institutions managed their collections and acquisitions in new ways, often at increased cost and using selective buying practices. Drawing on catalogues of sales, auctions and library records, this article offers a broad appreciation of the literary-institutional landscape in a period of vast change in Ireland.","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42883471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In Jail Journal (1854), John Mitchel describes receiving a hero’s welcome on his arrival in Brooklyn as an escaped convict on 29 November 1853. That same day, Austin Reed was enjoying one of his rare periods of freedom from New York State penal institutions. Reed’s recently discovered memoir, The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict ( c.1858–9) – the earliest known prison memoir by an African American – uses his experiences of institutional confinement to interrogate the United States’ racialized system of constrained freedoms. By contrast, for Mitchel, freedom means escaping from the metropolitan bustle of the US North to meet fellow slavery advocates in Virginia, an account which is only briefly summarized by the editor of his memoir. Drawing on Orlando Patterson’s tripartite concept of personal, sovereignal and civic freedom, this essay examines the forms of freedom foregrounded in Reed’s and Mitchel’s prison narratives. While Reed focuses on personal freedom, Mitchel is predominantly concerned with sovereignal and civic freedom. By focusing on their common compositional contexts, the essay explores what a comparative approach to institutional confinement can teach us about the concepts of freedom conceptualized in ‘black and green’ zones of cultural contest and interchange (Lloyd and O’Neill 2009).
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