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{"title":"Noraid and the Northern Ireland troubles, 1970–1994 <b>Noraid and the Northern Ireland troubles, 1970–1994</b> , by Robert Collins, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2022, 224 pp., €45.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781801510189","authors":"Ashley M. Morin","doi":"10.1080/09670882.2023.2264230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2023.2264230","url":null,"abstract":"\"Noraid and the Northern Ireland troubles, 1970–1994.\" Irish Studies Review, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":88531,"journal":{"name":"Irish studies review","volume":"145 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135830235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“We know nothing except through style”: John Banville’s worldliness","authors":"Allan Hepburn","doi":"10.1080/09670882.2023.2260313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2023.2260313","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTJohn Banville identifies style as an attribute of world literature. As a novelist, he admires authors who make wit, word play, linguistic theatricality and virtuosity literary ends in themselves. In reviews and articles, he praises Henry James, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, Raymond Chandler, and other writers for their highly polished prose styles. In turn, critics single out Banville’s own finely tuned style as the defining trait of his novels. Invoking world literature theory, this essay works towards a definition of literary style and more particularly Irish style, such as Banville perceives it. As an aspect of world literature, certain novels display “extensibility,” which is to say that they borrow from and build upon prior novels, not just by repurposing characters, but also by adopting premises, situations, vocabularies, and style. Banville creates extensions of Nabokov’s Lolita in The Untouchable, James’s The Portrait of a Lady in Mrs Osmond, and Chandler’s detective novels in The Black-Eyed Blonde, published under the pseudonym Benjamin Black. Through such extensions, Banville elaborates a world style that enhances literary prestige and contributes to the system of world literature.KEYWORDS: John Banvillestylenovelworld literatureextensibilitycomedy Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Pater, “Style,” 412.2. Banville, “A Talk,” 14.3. Banville, “Foreword,” xi.4. Banville, Birchwood, 22; original emphasis.5. Banville, “Heavenly Alchemy,” 28.6. Banville, “The Only Begetter,” 24.7. Banville, The Blue Guitar, 3.8. Ibid., 24.9. Ibid., 151.10. Ibid., 13.11. Ibid.12. Conley, “John Banville,” n.p.13. Acocella, “Doubling Down,” 104.14. Tonkin, “The Wrong Choice in a List Packed with Delights,” 3.15. Macfarlane, “The World at Arm’s Length,” 19.16. “scrimshaw, n.” OED.17. Phillips, “The Case of Isabel Archer,” n.p.18. Ibid.19. Flaubert, The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830–1857 Vol. 1, 154.20. Banville, “It Is Only A Novel,” 23. Connolly “In Conversation with John Banville and Ed Victor,” 27:54.21. Ellmann, Elizabeth Bowen, 145.22. Hogan, “A Blessed World, in Which We Know Nothing except through Style,” n.p.23. Arnold, The Study of Celtic Literature, 121.24. Ibid.25. Pfeiffer, “To Make Fiction as Dense and Demanding as Poetry,” 27.26. Boxall, “Unknown Unity: Ireland and Europe in Beckett and Banville,” 48.27. McKeon, “John Banville: The Art of Fiction No. 200,” 134.28. Haughton and Radley, “An Interview with John Banville,” 860.29. Banville, The Singularities 97.30. Wilde, The Plays of Oscar Wilde, 415.31. Banville, The Singularities, 175.32. Banville’s precursors are almost uniformly European and male, as Michael Springer notes, with reference to Banville’s “persistent and searching interrogation of a range of literary, philosophical, and artistic forebears is a way of understanding the place of the work of literature in European culture and thought.” Springer, “Introdu","PeriodicalId":88531,"journal":{"name":"Irish studies review","volume":"327 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135581060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“The sick body has its own narrative impulse”: contemporary Irish illness narratives and institutions of care","authors":"B. English","doi":"10.1080/09670882.2023.2235763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2023.2235763","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The perceived social liberalisation of Irish culture over the past ten years has significantly impacted Irish writing, resulting in discussions of formerly tabooed topics like psychosis, menstruation, and infertility. This shift is particularly evident in the recent rise in public interest in creative non-fiction writing. This article examines the rise in popularity of illness narratives: tales of patients’ and care-takers’ embodied experiences of mental and physical ailments in light of Irish medical-historical developments. Focusing on chapters from recent Irish essay collections by Emilie Pine, Sinéad Gleeson, and Sophie White, this article considers how writing about the gendered experiences of women in Irish medical and mental institutions can shape political action and contribute to the formation of radical new cultures of care.","PeriodicalId":88531,"journal":{"name":"Irish studies review","volume":"31 1","pages":"379 - 390"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47925404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Celtic Phoenix, capitalist realism, and contemporary Irish women’s novels","authors":"Orlaith Darling","doi":"10.1080/09670882.2023.2233324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2023.2233324","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article, I analyse the literary realism of four women novelists in the context of the Celtic Phoenix. While realism has always been closely associated with capitalism as a genre and form, a neo-modernist turn emerged in Irish fiction writing in the years following 2012. This has been analysed in terms of a formal reaction to or against the capitalist realism of austerity policies. The realist novel, however, has remained popular with contemporary women writers, and, in this article I examine novels by Naoise Dolan, Niamh Campbell, Sara Baume, and Sally Rooney, asking how their work subverts or critiques capitalism not just in content, but in form. In particular, artmaking emerges as a self-reflexive motif through which these writers gain critical distance from the totalising capitalist systems they inhabit, and consider the ethics of creative production within this system.","PeriodicalId":88531,"journal":{"name":"Irish studies review","volume":"31 1","pages":"348 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46830681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Even better than the real thing: a conceptual history of the “Celtic Phoenix”","authors":"Aran Ward Sell","doi":"10.1080/09670882.2023.2233325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2023.2233325","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article chronicles the history of the phrase “Celtic Phoenix.” It began in sincere right-wing Celtic Tiger revivalism, but was popularised instead in a satirical mode, through Paul Howard’s parodic upper-class Dublin persona “Ross O’Carroll-Kelly.” In Howard’s play Breaking Dad (2014), a fascistic character exults that “Oh, the Celtic Tiger was a wonderful thing […] But the Celtic Phoenix – well, it’s going to be even better.” The phrase was quickly rehabilitated into mainstream economic analysis, via The Economist in 2015, and grew widespread in the mid-2010s: a 2018 article even speculated whether the “Phoenix” had already “passed its peak.” Subsequently, a cynical cast returned to the phrase’s currency, with negative connotations of Celtic Tiger shortsightedness observable in its usage in late-2010s and early-2020s journalism and criticism. The shifting usage of this term reflects a country still reckoning with the Celtic Tiger and the 2008–9 financial crash. This is seen in the written literature of “Celtic Phoenix” Ireland, in work by writers including Caoilinn Hughes, Kevin Power and Sally Rooney. To these newer writers, the crash is a previous generation’s disaster: an old but healing wound capable of being explained away as “something to do with capitalism.”","PeriodicalId":88531,"journal":{"name":"Irish studies review","volume":"31 1","pages":"331 - 347"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43157644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The new Joyce studies","authors":"Michael Gillingham","doi":"10.1080/09670882.2023.2235109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2023.2235109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88531,"journal":{"name":"Irish studies review","volume":"31 1","pages":"457 - 459"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49214535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Art history at the crossroads of Ireland and the United States","authors":"Lauren Clark","doi":"10.1080/09670882.2023.2234694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2023.2234694","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88531,"journal":{"name":"Irish studies review","volume":"31 1","pages":"453 - 454"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49482183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dis-orienting Orientalism in contemporary Irish writing: Yan Ge’s Irish short stories","authors":"Moonyoung Hong","doi":"10.1080/09670882.2023.2233328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2023.2233328","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines representations of Asia and Asian characters in contemporary Irish writing, drawing on the discourse on Orientalism and other postcolonial theories. Orientalism in Irish studies has undergone multiple phases: from the Celtic-Oriental ties that stressed cross-colonial identification with Eastern countries as a way to bolster nationalist narratives during the Celtic Revival, to the comparison with new and futuristic, late capitalist East Asian “Tiger” societies from the 1990s to the present day. Irish Orientalism thus stands uneasily between traditional Anglo-European Orientalism, which continues to reproduce certain stereotypes of the Other, and anti-imperial agendas that challenge established colonial discourses. While differing from its British counterpart, Irish literature has often been complicit in producing and sustaining Orientalist images, especially in its representations of migrants. By analysing Yan Ge’s short stories set in Ireland, this article offers a rare perspective from the Other side. Yan Ge’s thematic and formal consideration of her status as an Asian outsider aims to dis-orient and re-orient Irish readers. By looking steadily back at the Orientalist gaze, the portrayals of cross-cultural encounters in Yan Ge’s works help to create more fruitful and equitable conversations regarding Ireland’s role in the global order and its changing relationship with Asia.","PeriodicalId":88531,"journal":{"name":"Irish studies review","volume":"31 1","pages":"420 - 433"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48127274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Haunted Heaney: Spectres and the Poetry","authors":"S. Grace","doi":"10.1080/09670882.2023.2234685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2023.2234685","url":null,"abstract":"important contribution to the study of popular women’s magazines in Ireland. If there is one thing missing, it is the behind-the-scenes materials: circulation numbers, financial records, and editorial letters. These archival documents may not always be available, but they would have greatly enriched the book, providing insights into the operation of the magazine publishing business: how the editors selected the letters, how they responded and dealt with controversies, and the extent to which economic concerns influenced editorial decisions. Nonetheless, A Woman’s Place? is a carefully researched book, filled with brilliantly analysed examples from popular women’s magazines. It will be of interest to researchers in women’s history, periodical studies, and beyond.","PeriodicalId":88531,"journal":{"name":"Irish studies review","volume":"123 5","pages":"461 - 463"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41292217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The rise of the phoenix: restoration and renaissance in contemporary Irish writing","authors":"Eoghan Smith, S. Workman","doi":"10.1080/09670882.2023.2235869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2023.2235869","url":null,"abstract":"The focus of this special edition of the Irish Studies Review is on responses in Irish writing to the social, political, economic, and cultural realignments in Irish life that began after the collapse of the Celtic Tiger in 2008. In particular, the essays here examine how Irish writers have reckoned with the rise of the so-called “Celtic Phoenix,” a term that gained currency in the middle of the 2010s, and how the form, direction, and dissemination of Irish literature have evolved during this period. Obviously, to provide a completely exhaustive account of Irish literature from 2008 to the present would require significantly more space than is available here, and it need hardly be stated that it was not possible to comprehensively survey the entire literary landscape over the course of eight essays, nor was that our intention. Furthermore, although poetry, film, and, to a lesser extent, drama have flour-ished during this period, the scope of this special edition encompasses primarily prose fiction, with some attention paid to non-fiction. The short story and the novel, in particular, have been characterised as central to a current literary “renaissance” in Ireland, and the formal daring and thematic boldness of this new writing has been enabled and engendered by the “agility” and “dynamism of Ireland’s publishing scene.” 1 The authors here engage with some of the key literary directions, trends, and concerns, mostly, though not exclusively, in the work of writers who have emerged over the last decade and a half, and it is our aim that this scholarship will usefully contribute to the growing body of critical work on what now appears, even at this close juncture, to be one of the most significant 10 to 15 years in modern Irish literary history. The phrase “Celtic Phoenix” requires some elucidation. As a locution, it clearly evokes the term “Celtic Tiger” and substitutes the image of a ruthless, rapacious predator with the immortal figure of the phoenix – a periodically self-immolating and miraculously resur-recting bird of myth. While both phrases could be viewed as potentially glib or reductive, they are important signifiers that have gained significant","PeriodicalId":88531,"journal":{"name":"Irish studies review","volume":"31 1","pages":"325 - 330"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46265675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}