Eire-Ireland: a Journal of Irish Studies articles from September 2001

Eire-Ireland: a Journal of Irish Studies archives from September 2001

Editors' introduction.
September 22, 2001... The pressure of Irish nationalism asserts itself as a potent and inevitable reference point for contributors to this issue, even as Ireland enters into its postnationalist era. In some ways the nationalist past is still very much with us. This...

Anger and nostalgia: Seamus Heaney and the ghost of the father.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... EVEN BEFORE Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize (1995) and then delivered a bestselling translation of Beowulf(1999), he was for Irish, American, and English readers the most admired and lovable of poets. He won that wide affection both by being...

"God save Ireland": Manchester-Martyr demonstrations in Dublin, 1867-1916.
September 22, 2001... On 23 November 1867 three Irishmen--William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O'Brien--were executed in Manchester, England. They had been found guilty of murdering a policeman during a successful attempt to rescue two Fenian prisoners...

"The gravest situation of our lives": conservatives, ulster, and the home rule crisis, 1911-14.
September 22, 2001... ON THE second page of his pithy survey of twentieth-century Britain, Peter Clarke sets out a proposition which might well serve as the theme for this essay. "British history," he says, "has generally dealt with nationalism by ignoring it." (1)...

Divisions within the Irish government over land-distribution policy, 1940-70.
September 22, 2001... I. INTRODUCTION: THE PROGRAM OF LAND DISTRIBUTION A KEY challenge that the new government of the Irish Free State faced at the time of independence in 1922 was the pressing need to overcome land hunger, unemployment, and poverty in rural...

Remembering Ireland's architecture of containment: "telling" stories in The Butcher Boy and States of Fear.
September 22, 2001... PATRICK MCCABE's third novel, The Butcher Boy (1992), describes the eventful life of Francie Brady, a traumatized schoolboy in a small town in late 1950s and early 1960s Ireland. (1) Irish society deems Francie mad and resorts to confining his...

"Ireland begins in the home": women, Irish national identity, and the domestic sphere in the Irish homestead, 1896-1912.
September 22, 2001... HISTORIANS' neglect of the experiences of Irish women as housewives and mothers at the beginning of the twentieth century has been mirrored by a lack of regard for the position of women in the construction of an Irish national identity. The...

Fetal Ireland: national bodies and political agency.
September 22, 2001... Unionists must ensure that nationalists don't outnumber them. On the other side, what are we confined to--outbreeding them? What are our choices? Either we shoot them or we outbreed them. There's no politics here. It's a numbers game. ...

"Not quite Philadelphia, is it?": an interview with Eamonn McCann.(Interview)
September 22, 2001... EAMONN McCann was born in Derry, into the first generation of working-class Catholics to benefit from the Education Act of 1947. McCann's biography is in a sense paradigmatic of the experiences of this generation. Guaranteeing free secondary...

Johns Ford's festive comedy: Ireland imagined in The Quiet Man.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... IN LATE 1951, as his film The Quiet Man was being edited into final form, director John Ford sent a cautiously optimistic telegram to his friend Lord Killanin in Dublin: "The Quiet Man looks better and better. There is a vague possibility that...

To be loved as a cupboard: the Yeats Museum in the National Gallery of Ireland. (Cover).
September 22, 2001... ACCORDING TO George Moore, who had no difficulty in finding something acid to say about any of his Dublin compares, the painter Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957) looked bored in the National Gallery of Ireland. Moore though, while cynical, was astute...