Irish Literary Supplement articles from March 2004

Irish Literary Supplement archives from March 2004

The forty-eighth Cork Film Festival.
March 22, 2004... OVER THE YEARS, the Cork Film Festival has evolved into a rather venerable old institution. It was established in 1956, kept going by the determination and energy of local enthusiasts, and in 2005, the same year that Cork becomes the European...

Letter from Sligo: the 44th W.B. Yeats International Summer School.
March 22, 2004... THE YEATS SUMMER SCHOOL in Sligo, like other Irish summer schools, suffered from the general tourism and travel slump that was one of the many side-effects of 9-11, and the 2002 school had a relatively small turnout of students. However, I am...

A life like a novel.(W. B. Yeats: a Life Volume II: The Arch-poet 1915-1939)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... R.F. FOSTER W. B. Yeats: a Life Volume II: The Arch-poet 1915-1939 Oxford University Press, 2003, $45.00 In THE 1880S, LILY YEATS RETRIEVED from the floor of the Yeats's Blenheim Road house "crumpled drafts of poems" her brother had...

Queer eye from the Irish guy.(Roger Casement in Death, or Haunting the Free State)(Roger Casement: The Black Diaries, with a study of his background, sexuality, and Irish political life)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... W.J. MCCORMACK Roger Casement in Death, or Haunting the Free State. Dublin: UCD Press, 2002. $54.95, $27.95 JEFFREY DUDGEON Roger Casement: The Black Diaries, with a study of his background, sexuality, and Irish political life.. Belfast:...

The gay Southland.(This Thing Called Courage: South Boston Stories)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... J. G. HAYES This Thing Called Courage: South Boston Stories The Haworth Press, Inc., New York, 2002, $27.95, $17.95 THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES by a young Boston-based writer presents an exciting--yet often disturbing--view of life in...

An appreciation: John V. Kelleher, 1916-2004.(Obituary)
March 22, 2004... JOHN KELLEHER WAS MY FRIEND for more than forty years. I first met him in tall of 1960 when I arrived in Cambridge to teach Humanities at M.I.T. We met on a sunny afternoon in Harvard Square, and he graciously gave me a tour of the university,...

John V. Kelleher, pioneer of Irish studies.(Obituary)
March 22, 2004... UNTIL THE 1960S, options were limited for students seeking graduate degrees in Irish studies, in literature and especially in history. The former could attend such universities as Northwestern, and later, Princeton, and study with Richard...

One of a kind.(Selected Writings of John V. Kelleher on Ireland and Irish America)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... CHARLES FANNING. Selected Writings of John V. Kelleher on Ireland and Irish America. Southern Illinois University Press, 2002 THEY DON'T MAKE THEM LIKE John Kelleher any more. Fact is, they never did. An authority on Ireland, its history...

Interview with Elizabeth Kuti.(Interview)
March 22, 2004... ELIZABETH KUTI WAS BORN IN ENGLAND IN 1969, the child of a Hungarian father and an English mother. In 1993 she moved to Ireland to study at Trinity College Dublin, where she wrote her doctoral thesis on eighteenth-century women playwrights....

Practicality and principle.(Revival: The Abbey Theatre, Sinn Fein, The Gaelic League and the Co-operative Movement)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... P. J. MATHEWS Revival: The Abbey Theatre, Sinn Fein, The Gaelic League and the Co-operative Movement Cork University Press in association with Field Day; The University of Notre Dame Press, 2003, 19.95 [euro], $30.00 STUDENTS OF...

Mysticism and butter preservation.(George Russell (AE) and the New Ireland, 1905-30)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... NICHOLAS ALLEN. George Russell (AE) and the New Ireland, 1905-30. Four Courts Press, 2003, 45.00 [euro] IF WE ARE WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND, then proponents of George Russell/AE may have cause for concern. The poetry is slight, oftentimes...

The civic spirit.(Dublin, 1910-1940: Shaping the City & Suburbs)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... RUTH MCMANUS Dublin, 1910-1940: Shaping the City & Suburbs ("The Making of Dublin City" Series) Four Courts Press, 2002, $45.00, 45.00 [euro], 32.50 [pounds sterling] IN "Dublin in the Twentieth Century" (The Re-Conquest of Ireland, 1914),...

Walking the walk.(Ireland's Welcome to the Stranger; or, An Excursion through Ireland in 1844 and 1845)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... ASENATH NICHOLSON Ireland's Welcome to the Stranger; or, An Excursion through Ireland in 1844 and 1845 Edited and introduced by Maureen Murphy Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 2003, 18.99 [euro] THIS WELCOME REPUBLICATION OF Asenath Nicholson's...

Our thing.(Sinn Fein: A Hundred Turbulent Years)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... BRIAN FEENEY Sinn Fein: A Hundred Turbulent Years The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002 TWO MAYOR WORKS ON THE Irish Republican Army appeared in 1970, one by journalist Tim Pat Coogan, and the other by political scientist J. Bowyer Bell....

Profile of the usual suspects.(The IRA, 1926-1936)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... BRIAN HANLEY, The IRA, 1926-1936 Four Courts Press, 2002, 24.95 [euro] CONSIDERING THE IRA's IMPACT on politics on this island, North and South, during the twentieth century, and the amount of coverage it has had by journalists, it is...

Americans as peace builders.(American Policy and Northern Ireland: A Saga of Peacebuilding)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... JOSEPH E. THOMPSON American Policy and Northern Ireland: A Saga of Peacebuilding Praeger, 2001, $69.95 AMERICA'S INVOLVEMENT in the struggle for Irish freedom is largely a story of committed individuals and Irish-American groups who...

Looking for quislings in Ireland.(Irish Secrets: German Espionage in Wartime Ireland, 1939-1945)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... MARK M. HULL Irish Secrets: German Espionage in Wartime Ireland, 1939-1945 Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2003 IRISH NEUTRALITY DURING THE Second World War (or "the Emergency," as the experience was termed in the Twenty-Six Counties) has...

The English connection.(The Poetic Economies of England and Ireland, 1912-2000)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... DILLON JOHNSTON The Poetic Economies of England and Ireland, 1912-2000 Palgrave, 2001. AMONG OTHER THINGS, Poetic Economies is a salutary and illuminating exploration of the English contexts and intertexts for Irish poetry in the 20th...

Speaking for themselves.(In the Chair: Interviews with Poets from the North of Ireland)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... JOHN BROWN, EDITOR In the Chair: Interviews with Poets from the North of Ireland Salmon Publishing, 2002, 20.00 [pounds sterling] TWICE IN THE COURSE OF HIS intriguing collection of interviews, editor John Brown quotes Randall Jarrell to...

The protean character.(Rory & Ita)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... RODDY DOYLE Rory & Ita Viking Press, 2002, $23.95 RODDY DOYLE'S LATEST BOOK marks a departure from his recent trajectory at the same time as it reveals continuities with his earlier projects. A work of nonfiction, it traces the lives of his...

The evolution of modern Irish poetry.("Befitting Emblems of Adversity": A Modern Irish View of Edmund Spenser from W.B. Yeats to the Present)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... DAVID GARDINER "Befitting Emblems of Adversity": A Modern Irish View of Edmund Spenser from W.B. Yeats to the Present. Creighton University Press, 2001. FOR AT LEAST THE PAST TWO DECADES, and probably even longer, the term influence study...

Bard of the wasted and lost.(Low Red Moon)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... CAITLIN KIERNAN Low Red Moon ROC Penguin 2003, $14.00 THE IRISH DARK FICTIONAL TRADITION is alive and well and living, appropriately enough, in Flannery O'Connor country--Atlanta, Georgia. A growing number of gothic aficionados in fact...

Grabbing at life.(Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... NUALA O'FAOLAIN Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman New York: Riverhead Books of Penguin Putnam, 2003 ALMOST THERE follows Nuala O'Faolain's remarkable 1996 memoir, Are You Somebody? as a reflection on another query she...

Forever and a day.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... PETE HAMILL Forever Little, Brown and Company, 2003, $25.95 BY HIS OWN ACCOUNT, when Pete Hamill completed his novel Forever, and delivered the manuscript to his publisher, he felt an immense sense of relief and cause for celebration....

The supply of poetry.(Fardoras)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... MICHAEL DAVITT Fardoras Clo lar-Chonnachta, 2003, 10.00 [pounds sterling] In his poem "Dalta," written in memory of Padraig O hIceadha, the founder of Daonscoil na Mumhan, Michael Davitt praises O hIceadha for trying to bring the Irish...

Politics locked in place, for now.(Changing Shades of Orange and Green: Redefining the Union and the Nation in Contemporary Ireland)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... JOHN COAKLEY, EDITOR Changing Shades of Orange and Green: Redefining the Union and the Nation in Contemporary Ireland University College Dublin Press 2003, 20.25 [euro], 15.95 [pounds sterling] JOHN COAKLEY IS SENIOR LECTURER in politics at...