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Abstract: The 26th O’Shaughnessy Poetry Prize winner, Gerry Murphy, was born in Cork City and has helped to shape the writing identity of Cork and beyond. He attended University College Cork, where he was part of a resurgence of literary activity under the inspiration of Professor Seán Lucy and John Montague. Among his contemporaries, described by Thomas Dillon Redshaw as “that remarkable generation,” were Thomas McCarthy, Theo Dorgan, Maurice Riordan, Greg Delanty, and Seán Dunne. He is a hugely popular reader of his own work. But “what makes Murphy unique among his contemporaries,” according to the late Ireland Chair of Poetry John Montague, “is his curious integrity, the way he has created an aesthetic out of nearly ... Read More PubDate: 2022-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: in may 1979 my classmates and I in St. Mary’s Christian Brothers School, Portlaoise, were busy revising for the Inter Cert exams; that is to say, we had one ear on the new RTÉ Radio 2 (with its nonstop diet of chart hits Comin’atcha) and at the same time struggled to memorize key speeches from Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1. Among the most challenging were those in which the young Harry Percy, known as Hotspur, defends his decision not to turn prisoners of war over to the new king, Henry. The thing is, Hotspur doesn’t like Henry. He doesn’t trust him. Daily he is growing more sympathetic to the rebels who oppose the king, among them Mortimer, the Earl of March. Further adding to Hotspur’s vexations is the fact that ... Read More PubDate: 2022-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Dr. David Clare (Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick), Dr. Fiona McDonagh (Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick), and Dr. Justine Nakase (Adjunct Lecturer in Drama, Portland State University)The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, 1716–2016, the two-volume essay collection recently published by Liverpool University Press, grew out of a conference held at Mary Immaculate College (MIC) in Limerick in June 2017.1 That event was an academic response to the #WakingTheFeminists campaign for greater gender equity in Irish theater. As readers will be aware, #Waking TheFeminists (#WTF) grew out of the frustration many ... Read More PubDate: 2022-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: over the long, seemingly interminable Decade of Centenaries, Irish feminists have persistently noted the exclusions and disparities in the way the Irish nation remembers its past. From #WakingTheFeminists, which sounded the alarm about Fiach Mac Conghail’s Abbey Theatre centenary program and evolved into a public forum on gender imbalances in contemporary Irish theater, to the All Island Commemoration Network, which assembled academic feminists to confront and redress the gender inequalities of the original Decade of Centenaries commemoration program, the last few years have witnessed welcome interpolations, corrections, and complications about the meaning of Ireland’s revolutionary years. And yet, as Oona Frawley ... Read More PubDate: 2022-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: celia de fréine writes in many genres in both Irish and English. Her plays, film, and television scripts have won numerous awards. Her biography of Louise Gavan Duffy, Ceannródaí (LeabhairCOMHAR, 2018), won the American Conference of Irish Studies Duais Leabhar Taighde na Bliana (2019) and was short-listed for the Irish Book Awards (2018) and Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin (2019). Cur i gCéill, her first thriller, published by LeabhairCOMHAR in 2019, was short-listed for the Irish Book Awards (2020). An Dara Rogha, a young adult novel, was published in 2021 by LeabhairCOMHAR.To date, de Fréine has published nine collections of poetry, garnering prizes such as the Patrick Kavanagh Award and Gradam Litríochta Cló ... Read More PubDate: 2022-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: the 1950s are often presented as the decade of transition in Irish society when Ireland’s inevitable entrance into the modern world antiquated the effort to maintain if not reinvent a traditional, isolated, and exclusively Gaelic or Celtic Ireland. Tom Garvin argued that the Irish government, led for most of the period from 1932 to 1959 by Éamon de Valera, sought to “prevent the future.”1 Gary Murphy contested this interpretation of Irish history, citing numerous civil servants and government officials eager to embrace modernity, new policies, and the outside world after the emergency that was World War II.2 Brian Girvin posited that Ireland changed beginning in the late 1950s but did not begin vast modernization ... Read More PubDate: 2022-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: the dark space festival was held on February 16–17, 1979, at the Project Arts Centre in the Temple Bar section of central Dublin.1 The multimedia event featured film, artwork, a striptease act, and live performances from a number of musical groups that eschewed tropes of rock and punk in favor of a new sound and aesthetic.2 The festival was to be headlined by John Lydon’s post–Sex Pistols group PiL (Public Image Limited) and English avant-garde troupe Throbbing Gristle. For reasons unknown the featured acts never made it to Ireland for the event. Nonetheless, Irish bands were able to fill in for the missing headliners, and those that did perform included the Virgin Prunes, the Modern Heirs, Berlin, the Atrix ... Read More PubDate: 2022-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: the all-woman compilation album A Woman’s Heart was released in 1992 during a period of increased change and continued conflict in Irish society, particularly in relation to the role, status, and recognition of women and women’s rights. Prior to this, under the influence of church and state leadership, women’s roles were mostly limited to household and domestic duties, with the family unit serving as a central focus.1 These constraints also meant that some women were subject to emotional and physical abuse if they failed to uphold this idealized role and good Christian teachings. For example, many women who fell pregnant outside of marriage were forced to enter state- and church-run “mother and baby homes . . . ... Read More PubDate: 2022-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: following william v. shannon’s oft-quoted dictum that “the Irish were a rural people in Ireland, and they became a city people in the United States,” much attention is given to large urban centers, with the assumption that such places do indeed typify the Irish American experience.1 The work supporting this truism usually focuses on the East Coast. Kevin Kenny broadened these observations: “the Irish in the United States shared a marked preference for towns and cities. . . . Fully 44.5% of the Irish-born population lived in the fifty largest cities in the United States in 1870, and well over half the remainder lived in small towns, mining villages. . . . Combining the population of these smaller industrial and ... Read More PubDate: 2022-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Joseph Valente and Margot Gayle Backus’s The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable performs at least two essential, timely, and intimately dependent acts for literary criticism by testifying to literature’s ability to confront sexual trauma and offering such conclusions as the results of communal and collaborative work. Through intricate and rigorous close readings of literature, ranging from James Joyce to Anne Enright, and nuanced applications of psychoanalytic theory, Valente and Backus outline the way that Irish literature engages modern social and cultural discourse, as well as silence and abstraction, to identify sexual trauma in Ireland since the late nineteenth century. Just ... Read More PubDate: 2022-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Geraldine O’ReillyIllustration for Mary O’Donnell’s poem“Heron and the Women” in Unlegendary Heroes (limited-edition box set of letterpress poems and silk screen prints, 2021)the heron’s prehistoric pterosauresque form is suspended against the whiteness of the page. Skillfully rendered hand-painted marks capture the creature’s physicality, grace, and power. However, while the artist has carefully observed its anatomical details, its genus undisputed, the bird is decontextualized from its natural surroundings, removed from familiar environments. Its separateness takes on a symbolic power in the viewer’s imagination. All at once it is beautiful and majestic, yet its isolated state is unexpected, its presence uncanny ... Read More PubDate: 2022-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: All day it draws us back to look at it, and look at it again.There is no end to looking. In the painting on the cover of Ciaran Carson’s Still Life—Jeffrey Morgan’s Hare Bowl—your gaze is drawn to the motion of the two hares (and there will be two more on the bowl’s far side, out of sight but not out of mind) circling the earthenware vase, their legs at the most elongated point of their gaits, each with a forepaw stretched beyond the possibility of stillness; drawn into what seems at first a Rothko-like field of horizontal earth-toned bands that, without losing their subtlety, resolve themselves into a shelf or tabletop; drawn toward the particular skill with which the painter has reproduced the pattern of ... Read More PubDate: 2022-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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