{"title":"Antonio Bibbò, Irish Literature in Italy in the Era of the World Wars","authors":"Clíona Ní Ríordáin","doi":"10.3366/iur.2023.0630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2023.0630","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":"2014 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139295264","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":"In the Archives: Crossing the Atlantic with Irish Archives in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library","authors":"Francis Ittenbach, Jennifer Gunter King","doi":"10.3366/iur.2023.0623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2023.0623","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139300987","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":"Yeats’s Faustian Meditations: Jung, Yoga, and The Secret of the Golden Flower","authors":"Chris Murray","doi":"10.3366/iur.2023.0616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2023.0616","url":null,"abstract":"W. B. Yeats's long-term interest in meditation practices gained new impetus in 1931 when he obtained a copy of The Secret of the Golden Flower, a Daoist manual translated from Chinese. Alongside detailed instructions on meditation, this book includes a commentary by C. G. Jung. Taking Faust as a model for the Western psyche, Jung cautions that Asian meditation techniques are unsuitable for Europeans. Yeats responds to Jung in his introduction to another translation, Patanjali's Aphorisms of Yoga (1938). Here Yeats adopts Faust as a paradigm for the meditating subject and equates Goethe's Faust with Buddhist and Hindu processes of enlightenment. Late poems such as ‘Mohini Chatterjee’, ‘The Circus Animals’ Desertion’, and ‘The Statues’ contain evidence that Yeats came to see an earlier project, Unity of Culture, as a quest for collective, national enlightenment. Thus, Yeats's regret at acquiring authoritative guidance on meditation so late in life indicates not only his wish to experiment with the discipline, but also that he understood meditation as a practice that would have advanced his plans for Ireland's self-realization.","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139301327","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":"Vona Groarke, Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara","authors":"Elizabeth Brewer Redwine","doi":"10.3366/iur.2023.0633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2023.0633","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139305526","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":"Helena Molony’s ‘Radical Reconceptualization of History’: Commemorating Revolution on the Stage and in the Streets","authors":"Karen Steele","doi":"10.3366/iur.2023.0620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2023.0620","url":null,"abstract":"In his survey of Irish media over the last two centuries, Christopher Morash explains that, during the Revival years, Irish literature, politics, and public life existed ‘in a frenzy of print’, with hundreds of different nationalist newspapers and periodicals produced during these years – a print culture that ‘was not simply the vehicle for the literary revival; it was a constituent part of it’. R. F. Foster has emphasized that ‘little newspapers and magazines of the nationalist fringe’, more than High Culture, ‘galvanized the imaginations and opinions of young radicals” who would go on to shape Ireland's literary and political future. This essay explores Irish literature and periodical culture of the nationalist fringe through a close examination of Bean na hÉireann (‘Woman of Ireland’, 1908-1911), Ireland's first nationalist periodical expressly written for and by women. Tracking the radical networks cultivated by this one-penny monthly, it focuses on editor Helena Molony (1884-1967), who provided a forum for marginalized thinkers, such as women, trade unionists, and militants nationalists, to ‘have a voice and influence in the matters… of their country’. In noting the tensions present in Molony's radical networks, this essay illuminates the local and national networks of Irish journalism, whether in terms of business practices, models for political separatism, pragmatic organizing principles, or abstract philosophy concerning the imagined communities that were a primary readership for this journal.","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139293076","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":"The Windmill Row Theatre and the Irish (1796–1804): Civilizing Sydney Cove’s Convict Society","authors":"P. Kuch","doi":"10.3366/iur.2023.0618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2023.0618","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines the role of the Irish, and the performance of Irishness, in the Windmill Row Theatre (1796–1804), which opened a mere eight years after the penal colony of Sydney Cove was established. Influenced by revisionist histories such as Grace Karskens’ The Colony: A History of Early Sydney (2010), and by recent research about the performativity of Irishness on the eighteenth-century London and Dublin stages, it enriches the view that the colony was intended to be ‘a society, not a gaol’. While it offers a corrective to the idea that Sydney Cove was ‘a subsistence colony that would transform felons into farmers’, it takes issue with Robert Jordan's argument in The Convict Theatres of Early Australia (2002) that the theatre would have had little impact on the Irish. It proposes that several plays that were staged constituted a social experiment to manage the gender imbalance in the colony, and also considers the impact of Irish political protest, the role of the 1798 Rising and the effect of the contentious ‘Union of Hearts’ of 1800 on the theatre. It further speculates about Irish convict access to Australia's first commercial theatre, which had its own specifically designed building, booking system, regime of admission prices, and paid staff and actors.","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139293173","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":"The Silence of the Postmemory Generation in John McGahern’s Short Stories","authors":"Yeonmin Kim","doi":"10.3366/iur.2023.0613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2023.0613","url":null,"abstract":"This essay argues that McGahern embodies a tension between nostalgia and anti-nostalgia through the silence of characters of a postmemory generation. Although McGahern neither pushes the limit of his works to the realm of political emancipation, nor pursues therapeutic working-through of trauma, he is an artist whose quest for postmemorial dynamics functions both anti-nostalgically as a traumatic symptom of the authoritative post-independence state, and nostalgically as an aesthetic strategy to reinvent the past. First, he describes silence as generational, representing both the space for a tentative truce between the generations and the means by which the postmemory generation can establish its critical identity. Second, McGahern's silence enables his postmemory-generation characters to reinvent the past. On the one hand, the silence reveals intragenerational memory war among members of the later generation as they form different versions of the past. On the other, the silence serves as a creative space for reflective nostalgia to reimagine, and cope with, the trauma of the past.","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139299020","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":"From small: on motherhoods","authors":"Claire Lynch","doi":"10.3366/iur.2023.0610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2023.0610","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139300622","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":"Alice McDermott's Almost Invisible Narrators","authors":"Edward A. Hagan","doi":"10.3366/iur.2023.0622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2023.0622","url":null,"abstract":"Why do Alice McDermott's narrators not acknowledge a statutory rape and a murder? Why does she make it hard for readers to detect who her narrators are? She compels us to work with her to construct her stories and makes the task unusually hard for the first-time reader. Laszlo F. Földényi's collection of essays, Dostoyevski Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears (2020), helps us to understand the philosophical basis for McDermott's narrative strategies in her depictions of Irish America. Her narrators reveal the emptiness occasioned by a false dichotomy between subject and object – a contemporary disease. McDermott restores mystery as the antidote to systems of knowledge. Analysis of her novels, especially Child of My Heart (2002), Someone (2013) and The Ninth Hour (2017), suggests McDermott's cure for the narrators’ quest for control over the stories they tell. Someone is a key novel for understanding what ails our contemporary consciousness.","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139296077","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":"The Literariness of small: on motherhoods","authors":"Paige Reynolds","doi":"10.3366/iur.2023.0611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2023.0611","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139298680","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}