Pub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2023.2196789
Marie Gemrichová
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Pub Date : 2023-03-27DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2023.2195587
Lauren Clark
mirrored in current high-level politics, a detachment forms between the leading parties and everyday citizens as the young generation, which did not directly experience the Troubles, has become more and more diversified and in a way, overlooked. The book appropriately discusses the position of women, poorer classes as well as former prisoners, all of whom, struggle in “new” and “peaceful” Northern Ireland. While at times the text unfortunately describes the issues in the province (e.g. gender-violence, continuing poverty of the lower class, detachment between politicians and citizens) as unique and the chapters themselves are put in a curious order, the publication is nonetheless a great addition to recent texts which focus on Northern Ireland and the legacy of the Troubles. In consideration of the authors’ observations, the book meaningfully does not provide a conclusion and the authors themselves tell the readers that “the peace that we have come to assume in Northern Ireland is far from a perfect peace. It is ragged at the edges and torn in the middle,” (291) and a lot more work is yet to be done.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-27DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2023.2194497
Loic Wright
ABSTRACT This article investigates the cultural shift from rural Ireland to bohemian Dublin in Mary Lavin’s The House in Clewe Street (1945). This essay investigates how the protagonist, Gabriel Galloway, hopes to move to Dublin to mature and develop his masculine independence. Lavin’s novel is a Bildungsroman, that uses a migration to the city as a key catalyst for character development. However, the culture shock that arises from the contrasting expectations of rural and urban hegemonic masculinities prevents Gabriel from achieving his goals of masculine development. In this article, therefore, I interrogate how Lavin complicates Gabriel’s linear masculine development, and how Lavin subsequently uses the failed Bildungsroman form to illustrate wider national conditions in Irish society after independence.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-27DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2023.2194499
Orlaith Darling
Mulligan, Amy C. “Landscape and Literature in Medieval Ireland.” In A History of Irish Literature and the Environment, edited by Malcolm Sen, 33–51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Ní Annracháin, Maire. “Seeing the Natural World: Comhbhá an Dúlra.” Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 120C (2020): 349–364. Pusse, Tina, and Sabine Lenore Müller, eds. From Ego to Eco: Mapping Shifts from Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2017.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-23DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2023.2194496
A. Motyl
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2023.2171334
Ellen Howley
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2023.2162449
Rania M. Rafik Khalil
intriguing and illuminating work has been published in the liminal space between fiction and non-fiction (e.g. Anna Burns’ Milkman). Aiken makes the compelling case that, whilst much of this writing has been neglected by scholars, partly because it has slipped though disciplinary cracks, nonetheless it was influential in helping to shape the intellectual climate in which the civil war was discussed and interpreted. However, although the opening of the Bureau of Military History and Military Service Pensions Collection archives have proven a boon to historical research on the revolutionary period, “such strong focus on ‘new’ sources has occluded earlier underappreciated material” (117). In terms of the complex legacies of violence and forms of testimony, Aiken argues that certain narratives become deeply embedded in the collective psyche in the aftermath of civil war; they may have a profound influence on subsequent (re-)constructions of these experiences. She makes the case that Frank O’Connor’s short story, Guests of the Nation (first published in 1931, less than a decade after the revolutionary period ended) is “arguably the most influential Irish text of the twentieth century” (202). This might be considered something of an overstatement, but there is no doubt that memoirists of the revolution have often drawn on the “empathy-between-foes motif” that is epitomised in O’Connor’s story (17). Moreover, this fundamental trope has been evoked regularly in plays, novels and films, as well as testimonies. Aiken skilfully examines Ernie O’Malley’s memoir of the War of Independence, On Another Man’s Wound, in which he recounts his involvement in the execution of three British officers near Clonmel, Co. Tipperary in June 1921. O’Malley’s account, published in 1936, “shares many of the features of O’Connor’s fictional story” (204). This interweaving of diverse genres has made for a complex politics of remembrance of the Irish civil war; one of the great strengths of Spiritual Wounds is the sure-footed fashion in which the book navigates this potentially difficult terrain. Of all the many works which have been produced during the centenary of the civil war, Aiken’s book is certainly among the most original contributions. For the writers considered here, the impact of the civil war on their subsequent lives was often profound: the “desire to remain silent had to contend with the urge to tell” (232). Aiken is surely correct when she states that “these testimonies demonstrate the absolute necessity of broadening historical scholarship to include less conventional forms of life writing” (230). Her book is a fine example of this process of opening up the field for future researchers. It is worth noting also that, even as a hardback, it is reasonably priced by Irish Academic Press; it certainly deserves to be widely read and its insights absorbed by historians of the Irish revolutionary era.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2023.2164338
William C. Fleming
ABSTRACT This article analyses how Catherine Walsh and Ellen Dillon employ a shared feminist experimental poetics to address notions of female labour in contemporary Ireland. It argues that both subscribe to a contemporary feminist consensus, outlined in Angela McRobbie’s The Aftermath of Feminism, that neoliberalism has co-opted the ideals of second-wave feminism, and redeployed them as spurious evidence that “there is no longer any place for feminism in contemporary political culture.” Both poets challenge this latter assertion, positioning a distinctly female form of traditional Irish labour – butter-making – as a site in which to reclaim lost feminist ideals and forms of social solidarity. Beginning with an account of how Ireland has transitioned to the logic of capital while paradoxically exploiting the ideals of the social movements it necessarily suppresses, it then shows how Walsh uses a feminist experimental poetics in Optic Verve (2009) to simulate the experience of the Irish female subject in a harsh “post-feminist” neoliberal landscape, while gesturing towards lost female forms of labour and commoning. It then posits that Dillon’s Butter Intervention (2022) seeks to expose the neoliberal erasure of feminist labour struggles from Irish history, as well as present ways to repatriate them within a contemporary social consciousness.
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