Pub Date : 2021-07-08DOI: 10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.10599
Valérie Morisson
L’exploration urbaine (urbex) est un phenomene culturel mondial consistant a explorer des lieux abandonnes sans y laisser de traces et a prendre des photographies des sites ensuite postees sur les reseaux sociaux. En Irlande, l’interet pour les lieux delabres et les ruines est anterieur a l’urbex notamment en raison de l’importance de la propriete et de l’emigration. L’urbex a ete decriee et depeinte comme une forme de ruinophilie, de tourisme macabre ou de soif adolescente d’aventures illegales. Mais elle a ete encouragee par ceux qui y voient une resistance politique aux strategies de surveillance ou bien une opportunite de se reapproprier le passe pour construire des archives populaires et collaboratives. Etant donne l’absence d’articles portant sur l’urbex en Irlande, il semble necessaire de presenter les differentes pistes critiques permettant de comprendre cette pratique tres debattue.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-08DOI: 10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.10980
Sylvie Mikowski
The number of books of criticism on the work of John McGahern could now approximate twenty, notwithstanding the numerous Master theses and PhD dissertations presented in universities around the world, which tells a lot about the canonical status reached by the novelist in his own country where he started out being considered “parochial”, then somehow outrageous, at the time when his second novel The Dark was censored and he lost his job as a primary school teacher. More recently, the trend in...
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Pub Date : 2021-07-08DOI: 10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.10963
Olena Tykhomyrova
All on Show: The Circus in Irish Literature and Culture is a unique undertaking which brings the ethereal world of the circus, as it is reflected in Irish culture, to scholarly attention. Proceeding from the well-established theoretical background of the carnivalesque, the author delves into the conceptual spaces outlined by the ambivalent nature of the circus and explores their metaphorical potential. The study elucidates the various ways in which this potential is realised within the centra...
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.10242
Sylvie Mikowski
This paper starts as a discussion of Paul Lynch’s novel Grace as a Famine novel and on the ways in which the Famine is represented historically, but also emotionally. It questions the limits of language and fiction in representing history, trauma and affects and discusses the specificity of Grace, comparing it with Liam O’Flaherty’s Famine and Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea. Grace, it is argued, manages to evade the nationalist versus revisionist debate and constitutes, at an aesthetic level, the same type of middle-ground as the one achieved by the “post-revisionist” historians, situated half-way between the mythologising of the first interpreters of the Famine and the revisionists’ controversial attempts at writing “value-free” narratives of the tragedy. Drawing on Eric L. Berlatksy’s model of an anti-realist narrative mode and its application in Art Spiegelman’s Maus, and on Marianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory applied to the Shoah, the essay posits that Lynch’s novel offers the reader a renewed mode of understanding the reality of the past, and in particular, of horrifying historical events that resist representation – in this case, the Great Famine.
本文首先讨论保罗·林奇的小说《恩典》作为一部关于饥荒的小说，以及它在历史和情感上表现饥荒的方式。它质疑了语言和小说在表现历史、创伤和情感方面的局限性，并讨论了《格蕾丝》的特殊性，将其与利亚姆·奥弗莱厄蒂的《饥荒》和约瑟夫·奥康纳的《海星》进行了比较。有人认为，格蕾丝设法回避了民族主义与修正主义的争论，并在美学层面上构成了与“后修正主义”历史学家所取得的相同类型的中间地带，位于第一批饥荒解释者的神话化和修正主义者对悲剧的“价值自由”叙事的有争议的尝试之间。本文借鉴了Eric L. Berlatksy的反现实主义叙事模式及其在Art Spiegelman的《鼠》中的应用，以及Marianne Hirsch在大屠杀中应用的后记忆概念，认为林奇的小说为读者提供了一种理解过去现实的新模式，特别是那些抗拒再现的恐怖历史事件——在这种情况下，大饥荒。
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.10407
L. Daniel
Rugby in Munster. A Social and Cultural History by Liam O’Callaghan was first published in 2011 in the wake of Munster’s 2006 and 2008 victories in the Heineken Cup (European cup), only a decade after the advent of professionalisation (1995) forced the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) to reorganise along provincial (1997) rather than the traditional club lines in order to lure Irish players back home and revive its international fortunes whilst ensuring the financial sustainability of the sm...
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.10403
P. Cauvet
En cette annee 2020 qui marque le centenaire du Government of Ireland Act, annee faisant elle-meme partie de la grande decennie des commemorations (commemorations de 1914, 1916, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922…), il etait tout a fait naturel que des ouvrages sur la partition de l’Irlande soient proposes par les maisons d’edition irlandaises. Si l’on ajoute a cela le contexte tres particulier qu’est celui du Brexit et de l’imbroglio constitutionnel et socio-economique qu’il cree autour de la frontiere ...
2020年这个年份(Government of Ireland)的百年品牌的Act,一年连属于commemorations大十年(1916 commemorations 1914、1918年、1920年、1921、1922年...)了,它完全天然的著作,《爱尔兰爱尔兰分治,得到上级提出:亚硫酸盐的房屋。如果我们再加上英国脱欧的特殊背景，以及它在边境周围造成的宪法和社会经济混乱……
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.10432
A. Slaby
Canadian-born Colin Barr received his PhD from Cambridge and held academic positions in Ireland and the United States prior to his current post as senior lecturer at the school of divinity, history and philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. His work on Paul Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin (1852-1878) and Ireland’s first cardinal (1866), is well known to Irish Studies scholars (Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845-1865, Notre Dame, University of Notre Da...
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.10172
Pascale Amiot
This article is devoted to the second section of Sinead Morrissey’s Between Here and There (2002), which gathers poems written during the Irish writer’s two-year stay in Japan. The title of the collection alludes to the poet’s position, poised between her discovery of Japanese Zen culture and the Western lyrical tradition she was steeped in during her youth in Ireland. In the light of seminal essays on lyricism (J.-M. Maulpoix, J.-C. Pinson, M. Ueda, P. Volsik) and a selection of inquiries into the spirit of Zen (R. H. Blyth, N. W. Ross, D. T. Suzuki, C. Jung, J. Pigeot), our aim is to explore the interactions fostered between both traditions, and the way in which their collusion generates a unique body of poems, as “two worlds split open to each other, stars spilling from each” (“Pearl”). Between attachment and impersonality, Sinead Morrissey’s Japan sequence cultivates the art of in-betweenness while advocating, in the poet’s own words, “the tolerance of transitions”.
这篇文章是关于西尼德·莫里西的《在这里和那里之间》(2002)的第二部分，该部分收集了爱尔兰作家西尼德·莫里西在日本停留两年期间写的诗。诗集的标题暗示了诗人的地位，她在日本禅宗文化的发现和她在爱尔兰的青年时期沉浸在西方抒情传统之间。根据关于抒情诗的开创性论文(j - m。Maulpoix J.-C。Pinson, M. Ueda, P. Volsik)和一系列对禅宗精神的探究(R. H. Blyth, N. W. Ross, D. T. Suzuki, C. Jung, J. Pigeot)，我们的目的是探索两种传统之间的相互作用，以及它们的相互作用如何产生独特的诗歌体，就像“两个世界相互分裂，星星从每个世界溢出”(“珍珠”)。在依恋和客观之间，西尼德·莫里西(Sinead Morrissey)的日本序列培养了一种中间的艺术，同时用诗人自己的话说，倡导“过渡的宽容”。
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.10292
Christophe Poiré
En 2016 fut instauree en Republique d’Irlande une Assemblee citoyenne ayant pour objectif de reflechir a divers enjeux societaux, tels que la legalisation de l’avortement, le rechauffement climatique, le vieillissement de la population et la reforme du Parlement… Le premier dossier sur lequel l’Assemblee dut se pencher fut celui de l’avenir du 8e amendement a la Constitution garantissant le droit a la vie de l’enfant a naitre.Le 25 mai 2018, le peuple irlandais se prononca en faveur de l’abrogation du 8e amendement qui avait ete adopte trente-cinq ans plus tot par 66,9 % de l’electorat. Le present article a pour objectif, d’une part d’etudier le processus long et fastidieux qui deboucha sur la legalisation de l’avortement et, d’autre part d’analyser le role essentiel que joua l’Assemblee citoyenne dans ce resultat. Il semble fondamental de s’interroger sur l’autonomie politique de l’Assemblee. En quoi et comment parvient-elle a amoindrir la place de l’Eglise et de l’Etat dans le domaine de la morale sociale ? Comment participe-t-elle a la mutation des mentalites et des comportements en Republique d’Irlande ?
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.10202
V. Molinari
On 25 May 2018, the Republic of Ireland voted in a landslide referendum to repeal the 8th amendment of its Constitution which had, since 1983, put the “right to life of the unborn” on an equal status with the life of a pregnant woman, leading to a near-total ban on abortion, even in cases of rape, incest or fatal foetal abnormality. This historic result, in a country with one of the most restrictive abortion regimes in Europe, instantaneously led to calls for similar reform in Northern Ireland both from within and outside the Province as the region was now the only one in the British Isles where terminations were outlawed except in the most exceptional circumstances. Although these claims were finally heard when, on 22 October 2019, section 9 of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Act provided for the decriminalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland, the British government’s argument until the very last minute was that 1) the issue was one that belonged to the devolved Northern Ireland Assembly whose prerogatives should not be undermined, 2) abortion was “pre-eminently a matter for the people of Northern Ireland” to decide. This position on the part of the central government has led us to examine in this paper the reasons for the Northern Irish exception as well as the mechanisms which have been at play in Stormont for the past fifty years and have prevented any liberalisation of the legislation.
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