Etudes irlandaisesPub Date : 2020-09-24DOI: 10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.8998
P. Lamb
{"title":"Calling Cards: Ten Younger Irish Poets, Peter Fallon, Aifric Mac Aodha (eds.)","authors":"P. Lamb","doi":"10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.8998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.8998","url":null,"abstract":"Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill once described the act of writing poetry in Irish as an act akin to placing a baby in a basket and setting it downstream, in the hope that it would find some “inion Fharoinn”, “Pharaoh’s daughter” (trans. Paul Muldoon). Dual-language anthologies, and there is now a number of them, may tell us little about the state or size of the Irish-reading public but it does perhaps show that the English-reading public for poetry in Ireland, as well as English-language Irish poets, at ...","PeriodicalId":84699,"journal":{"name":"Etudes irlandaises","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70199357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etudes irlandaisesPub Date : 2020-09-24DOI: 10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.8796
Valérie Morisson
{"title":"Interview with Stuart Cairns","authors":"Valérie Morisson","doi":"10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.8796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.8796","url":null,"abstract":"Stuart Cairns works as a silversmith combining natural materials and found objects alongside precious metals to create artefacts in the tradition of tableware and domestic objects. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in silversmithing and jewelry from the University of Ulster in 2000, returning to complete a Master’s degree in 2006. He is a member of the British Designer Silversmiths and a part-time lecturer in the University of Ulster. Cairns has exhibited widely; selected exhibitions incl...","PeriodicalId":84699,"journal":{"name":"Etudes irlandaises","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70199649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etudes irlandaisesPub Date : 2020-09-24DOI: 10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.8891
Kate Antosik-Parsons
{"title":"Women’s Troubles: Abject Femininity in Willie Doherty’s Same Difference and Closure","authors":"Kate Antosik-Parsons","doi":"10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.8891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.8891","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The work of internationally acclaimed lens-based artist Willie Doherty proposes rich and nuanced understandings of the agency and participation of women in the Troubles in Northern Ireland. In a large number of visual and cultural representations of the ethno-nationalist violence of the Troubles, the conflict is often gendered as masculine, with women featuring primarily as victims and innocent bystanders. This essay examines Doherty’s Same Difference (1990) and Closure (2005), two key works that incorporate a female subject. It considers these works in relation to the concept of “abject femininity”, a non-normative femininity that is at odds with dominant representations of women as passive, nurturing care-givers or victims of conflict. This essay argues that the non-normative femininities in Same Difference and Closure offer opportunities to complicate understandings of women’s public and private roles in Northern Ireland.","PeriodicalId":84699,"journal":{"name":"Etudes irlandaises","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70199671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etudes irlandaisesPub Date : 2020-09-24DOI: 10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.9098
Eva Urban
{"title":"Spectres of Fiction: New Political Contexts for The Playboy of the Western World","authors":"Eva Urban","doi":"10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.9098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.9098","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The 2019 Lyric Theatre and Dublin Theatre Festival co-production of J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World (1907), directed by Oonagh Murphy, encouraged an abstract reading of the play in new political contexts. Set in the 1980s at the Derry / Donegal border and performed in Northern Irish accents, it was haunted by references to the area’s history of deprivation, powerlessness, the violence and victims of the conflict, the Disappeared, the communal trauma, and the current threat posed by Brexit. This essay explores how Murphy’s production highlighted spectres of fiction in the play, haunted not only by historical dramaturgical traditions and by the ghosts of the Northern Irish conflict but also by the ghosts of ancient wandering Irish bards. It offers a contemporary approach that situates the play’s preoccupation with fiction within an international context of the “social realities” of populist propaganda.","PeriodicalId":84699,"journal":{"name":"Etudes irlandaises","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70200113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etudes irlandaisesPub Date : 2020-09-24DOI: 10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.8791
Valérie Morisson
{"title":"Interview with Derek McGarry","authors":"Valérie Morisson","doi":"10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.8791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.8791","url":null,"abstract":"Derek McGarry is Head of Innovation and Engagement at National College of Art and Design, Dublin (NCAD), where he is in charge of design-led research projects. The department works with stakeholders in different sectors (medicine, healthcare, tourism, retail) to elaborate design concepts, prototypes and materials. Derek leads the NCAD technology transfer office Origin8 focusing on the commercialising of intellectual property and supporting campus company start-ups. He has a 30-year experience...","PeriodicalId":84699,"journal":{"name":"Etudes irlandaises","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70199578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etudes irlandaisesPub Date : 2020-09-24DOI: 10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.8971
C. Gillissen
{"title":"Okan Ozseker, Forging the Border : Donegal and Derry in Times of Revolution, 1911-1925","authors":"C. Gillissen","doi":"10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.8971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.8971","url":null,"abstract":"Alors que les negociations sur le Brexit n’en finissent pas de buter sur la question de la frontiere irlandaise et que la perspective d’une seconde partition de l’Irlande ne peut etre ecartee, cet ouvrage sur la periode revolutionnaire dans les comtes de Donegal et de Derry permet de mieux cerner les enjeux de la division territoriale dans cette partie de l’ile, ainsi que les evenements qui y conduisirent et la maniere dont la population y reagit il y a un siecle. Si la decennie des commemora...","PeriodicalId":84699,"journal":{"name":"Etudes irlandaises","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70199255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etudes irlandaisesPub Date : 2020-09-24DOI: 10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.8781
Valérie Morisson
{"title":"Interview with Brian Hand","authors":"Valérie Morisson","doi":"10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.8781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.8781","url":null,"abstract":"Brian Hand studied sculpture at National College of Art and Design, Dublin (NCAD), and media at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. He is currently lecturer and Head of Sculpture and Expanded Practice Department at NCAD. Most of his works are site-specific and research-based; they explore history from a postcolonial and interdisciplinary perspective. In 2003, Brian Hand was curator of the Arts Council’s Critical Voices programme. He has long been interested in collaborative practices and wa...","PeriodicalId":84699,"journal":{"name":"Etudes irlandaises","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70199494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etudes irlandaisesPub Date : 2020-09-24DOI: 10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.9012
Natasha Remoundou
{"title":"Anthology of Young Irish Poets, Ingrid Casey (ed.)","authors":"Natasha Remoundou","doi":"10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.9012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ETUDESIRLANDAISES.9012","url":null,"abstract":"With great anticipation and curiosity I received the Anthology of Young Irish Poets published in 2019 by Vakhikon and edited by Irish poet and visual artist Ingrid Casey who undertook the task of harvesting representative new Irish poetic voices for the purposes of this collection. The volume reflects the need to maintain representational gender balances by showcasing modern Irish poetry as a “living art” (p. 7) with agents of this representation eleven Irish poets: Doireann Ni Ghriofa, Ingri...","PeriodicalId":84699,"journal":{"name":"Etudes irlandaises","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70200061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etudes irlandaisesPub Date : 2019-12-31DOI: 10.4000/etudesirlandaises.8382
G. Price
{"title":"“Accursed Time”: Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition and John McGahern’s That They May Face the Rising Sun","authors":"G. Price","doi":"10.4000/etudesirlandaises.8382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesirlandaises.8382","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article analyses the connecting threads between the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze – as they appear in his 1968 text Difference and Repetition, which is one of Deleuze’s major solo works (along with The Logic of Sense) prior to his famous, anti-Oedipal collaborations with Felix Guattari – and the final novel written by John McGahern, That They May Face the Rising Sun (2002). It shall be argued that Deleuze’s conceptualisations of temporality and humanity’s relationship with its physical surroundings find their perfect literary realisations in the pages of McGahern’s That They May Face as he attempts to provide a vision of contemporary Ireland’s transcending of James Joyce’s nightmare of history and the deadening habit of what Samuel Beckett’s character Pozzo calls “accursed time”. Shakespeare, Proust, Joyce, and Beckett are the four literary authors who most unite Deleuze and McGahern in shared enthusiasm and they shall be considered as mediating presences between McGahern and Deleuze throughout the course of the article. It shall be argued that a Deleuzian vision lies at the heart of contemporary Irish literature and that That They May Face the Rising Sun represents a primary textual example of this literary strand.","PeriodicalId":84699,"journal":{"name":"Etudes irlandaises","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70199044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etudes irlandaisesPub Date : 2019-12-31DOI: 10.4000/etudesirlandaises.8716
H. Laird
{"title":"Breandán Mac Suibhne, The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland","authors":"H. Laird","doi":"10.4000/etudesirlandaises.8716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesirlandaises.8716","url":null,"abstract":"This is a rare publication in that it is both a thoroughly-researched scholarly text and an invitation to the reader to take an imaginative leap. Through a detailed account of an incident that took place in West Donegal in the mid-1850s, we learn about a key transitionary period in Irish history. But the book is much more than an analysis of a historical moment; rather it encourages us to cross a chasm of understanding and worldviews so that, even if only tentatively and momentarily, we see t...","PeriodicalId":84699,"journal":{"name":"Etudes irlandaises","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70199476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}