{"title":"List of Books Reviewed","authors":"","doi":"10.3366/iur.2023.0597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2023.0597","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136338594","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":"Life Writing as Cultural Narrative: Rosaleen McDonagh’s Unsettled","authors":"Elizabeth Grubgeld","doi":"10.3366/iur.2022.0561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2022.0561","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44025691","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":"IASIL Bibliography for 2021","authors":"","doi":"10.3366/iur.2022.0574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2022.0574","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42117789","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":"Middlebrow Culture and Mary Lavin’s Short Stories in The New Yorker","authors":"Yen-Chi Wu","doi":"10.3366/iur.2022.0564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2022.0564","url":null,"abstract":"This essay, informed by scholarship on middlebrow culture, places Mary Lavin’s stories in the textual space of The New Yorker, reassessing the supposed ‘conservatism’ of her short fiction. Lavin’s literary fame has often been marred by her perceived conservative streaks – in terms of her literary sensibility and her gender politics. Lavin’s literary style is inclined to the realist mode, which appears to be old-fashioned in comparison with the experimentalist work of her modernist predecessors; moreover, her ideas of family and marriage largely adhere to established social mores, disconnecting her from the progressive feminist movement in the post-war years. This essay argues that both aspects of Lavin’s ‘conservatism’ should be radically reassessed by placing her stories in the context of The New Yorker and the magazine’s affiliation with middlebrow culture. Her seemingly conservative literary and gender views in fact register a critical attitude toward urban modernity and domestic ideals, which resonated with The New Yorker’s liberal, albeit complacent, middle-class readers. In particular, the essay reads Lavin’s island story ‘The Bridal Sheets’ as a critique of materialism; it also considers the symbolic currency of the widow figure in ‘In a Café’ vis-à-vis The New Yorker’s tepid gender politics in the mid-twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42412594","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":"Thomas MacGreevy’s Combatant Modernism","authors":"William Davies","doi":"10.3366/iur.2022.0568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2022.0568","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines Thomas MacGreevy’s poetry in the context of combatant modernism. It argues that the preoccupations with themes of perception and violence in MacGreevy’s poems represent a prolonged engagement with the First World War and its legacy in Irish and British culture and politics. The article considers how this reframing of MacGreevy’s work helps elaborate on combatant modernism as an intersecting tradition with the more familiar forms of European modernism represented by the work of T. S. Eliot, James Joyce and others, one in which recognizable techniques of fragmentation and disorientation are brought about not just by aesthetic experimentation but the need to find novel modes of poetic witnessing suitable to the new kind of conflict and suffering the First World War represented. This reorientation places MacGreevy alongside writers such as David Jones and Richard Aldington to reveal how combat service generated its own kind of modernist writing.","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47068719","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":"Unsettled by Rosaleen McDonagh – Reading with Heart and Mind","authors":"David Friel","doi":"10.3366/iur.2022.0560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2022.0560","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43546451","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":"Female Development and Fairy Tale Transformations in Frances Browne’s Granny’s Wonderful Chair, and its Tales of Fairy Times (1856)","authors":"A. Jamison","doi":"10.3366/iur.2022.0565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2022.0565","url":null,"abstract":"Focusing on the changing publishing trends in children’s Irish and British fiction in the mid-nineteenth century, this essay examines Frances Browne’s popular fairy-tale collection, Granny’s Wonderful Chair, and its Tales of Fairy Times (1856), as part of a wider turn towards fantasy and fairy tale in the period. For Browne and others, the appeal of the genre lies in its ability to both entertain children, as well as instruct them in moral and social principles. As this essay aims to demonstrate, however, Browne’s text forges a significant challenge to conventional gendered patterns of social behaviour for women and imagines alternative life pathways for its young female readership as part of its didactic function. By focusing on the girl protagonist of the collection’s frame story, and her journey of maturation and acculturation, this essay finally reads Browne’s text not only for its transgressive subtext on gender conventions, but also for its implied critique of the power hierarchies that uphold the patriarchal order at the heart of these gendered social principles.","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43047510","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":"James Stephens and his American Patron","authors":"Steven J. Gores","doi":"10.3366/iur.2022.0567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2022.0567","url":null,"abstract":"James Stephens (1880–1950) had a significant reputation during the interwar years, both as a poet and a writer of short stories. Combining a Revivalist interest in imaginative texts from Ireland’s past, with an instinct for social realism, Stephens created a distinctive and admired body of work and was the subject of significant critical attention in the decades following his death. This essay explores a little-known dimension of Stephens’ life and professional career – his relationship with his American patron, W. T. H. Howe (1868–1939). Howe was a supportive presence in Stephens’ life, hosting him at his home, ‘Freelands’, for extended periods and collaborating with him on a number of publishing projects. Using a range of archival sources, this essay considers the place of this relationship in Stephens’ career and the factors which led to its conclusion.","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44085484","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":"Lost Futures: Hauntedness, Memory and Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane","authors":"Ian Hickey","doi":"10.3366/iur.2022.0572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2022.0572","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the haunted nature of Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane. The primary focus of reading is through the theoretical lens of Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology which he discusses in Specters of Marx. The novel is given to anachronism and moments of inertia as the past constantly intrudes upon the present moment of the characters lives. The inhabitants of the city are haunted by the past, which in the novel is referred to as the ‘lost time’, and are unable to move towards a future free from the shackles of memory, tradition and violence. Indeed, Mark Fisher’s thinking on the twenty-first century is important to consider in the context of his writing on hauntology and lost futures. While the characters are bound to the ‘lost time’ they are by implication prone to lost futures as they cannot escape the past as it sutures itself within the present moment in new and different forms. The only futures that they can attain are lost futures.","PeriodicalId":43277,"journal":{"name":"IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46497873","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}