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| Titre : | Irish University Review : Périodique numérique et imprimé Vol 47 n 2 supplément - Autumn/Winter 2017 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/12/2017 |
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Focussing on the poems in Sinéad Morrissey's Through the Square Window (2009), this essay examines how the poet envisions a transformed, post-troubles Belfast through a range of perspectives, shifting her attention away from but not entirely for[...]
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This article considers the composition history of Seamus Heaney's poem ‘Strange Fruit’, published in North (1975), by analysing manuscript drafts held at Emory University. Tracing the Christological and pre-Christian symbolism of earlier drafts [...]
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Seamus Heaney began translating the Middle Irish romance Buile Suibhne in 1972, but his ‘version from the Irish’, Sweeney Astray, wasn't published until 1983. This article explores Heaney's adaptation of metaphors from J.G. O'Keeffe's dual-langu[...]
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Accepted theatre history awards Sir Tyrone Guthrie a singular position of influence on Brian Friel's early career. But hundreds of documents newly discovered in BBC archives reveal that Belfast radio drama producer Ronald Mason was perhaps more [...]
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This article discusses Beckett's and Friel's interest in waiting in the context of Jacques Derrida's notions of ‘messianism’ and the ‘messianic’. Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Friel's Freedom of the City and Wonderful Tennessee associate waiti[...]
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This article builds on existing criticism of the interaction of militant republicanism and feminism during the Troubles by focusing in particular on the prisoners' own writing, analyzing the ways in which they choose to self-represent, but also [...]
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David Park's The Truth Commissioner (2008) tells the story of a fictional truth commission, established in the wake of the Northern Irish Troubles. To date, one of the most striking things about Northern Ireland has been its reluctance to engage[...]
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This article concerns the Belfast dramatist Owen McCafferty (1961–) and his play Quietly, which debuted at the Abbey's Peacock Theatre in November 2012. Considering antecedents in McCafferty's earlier work, it illustrates how the play reflects a[...]
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In 2016, New Island Books published The Glass Shore, an anthology of short stories by women writers from the North of Ireland, edited by Sinéad Gleeson. To stage and share examples of the ‘reading dynamics’ enabled by this welcome anthology, I i[...]