Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies articles from March 2003

Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies archives from March 2003

Introduction.(the Irish Literary Revival)
March 22, 2003... In his collection of essays, The Irish Story, Roy Foster observes: 'If the Irish are to remember or commemorate anything, it is worth recalling the great upward curve of Irish cultural achievement from about 1890 to 1914, and the fact that this...

Ireland's 'two cultures' debate: Victorian science and the literary Revival.
March 22, 2003... In her 1928 essay The Strange Necessity, Rebecca West describes the poet W.B. Yeats as a quintessentially self-made man, whose risible pursuit of a Celtic spirituality was largely the fault of his Anglo-Irish forerunners. The English in...

'Protestant Magic' reappraised: evangelicalism, dissent, and theosophy.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... In the introduction to his landmark essay, 'Protestant Magic: W.B. Yeats and the Spell of Irish History', R.F. Foster admitted that the most daunting task facing the rational science and secure chronologies of the historian, was accounting for...

'The fact of me-ness': autobiographical writing in the Revival period.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... I have often felt that the influence of our movement on the generation immediately following us will very largely depend on the way in which the personal history is written. It has always been so in Ireland. Our interest in the Young Irelanders...

The Gaelic front controversy: the Gaelic League's (post-colonial) crux.
March 22, 2003... This essay will examine the debate concerning the use of Gaelic and Roman fonts for printing Irish language texts during the Irish Revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. (1) The rise in Irish language publications during...

Dialogues of despair: nationalist cultural discourse and the Revival in the North of Ireland, 1900-20.
March 22, 2003... When compared to the monumental cultural achievements of the movement in the South, the Northern Revival has occupied an uncertain place in twentieth-century Irish literary history. If the Revival proper takes its place within a narrative of...

Becoming Irish? Alice Milligan and the Revival.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... If the political history of the past twenty-five years in Ireland ever comes to be written by someone who studies other authorities than the newspapers, someone who has really an intimate knowledge of the personalities who were at the root of...

Stirring up disloyalty: the Boer War, the Irish Literary Theatre and the emergence of a new separatism.
March 22, 2003... In May 1899 the Irish Literary Theatre staged its inaugural production, Yeats's The Countess Cathleen, in the Antient Concert Rooms in Dublin and set in motion a series of events that would culminate in the foundation of the Abbey Theatre five...

Joyce and the institutions of revivalism.(James Joyce)
March 22, 2003... Introduction When did the Irish cultural revival begin? Did it precede or follow the death of Pamell in October 1891, and that moment in which W.B. Yeats prophesied that Ireland 'was to be like soft wax for years to come'? (1) Or did it...

Plumbing the depths: Irish realism and the working class from Shaw to O'Casey.(George Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Early in 1899 the seedling Irish Socialist Republican Party held a public meeting to consider what had become a salient question. The minutes record that on 12 February Frederick Ryan 'delivered a lecture entitled "A Word on the Democratic...

States of mind: science, culture and the Irish intellectual Revival, 1900-30.
March 22, 2003... Recent studies of Irish science have begun to examine the discipline's cultural, historical, and social significance. Cogent examples include Peter Bowler and Nicholas Whyte's Science and Society in Ireland: The Social Context of Science and...

'It is in the cottages and farmers' houses that the nation is born': AE's Irish Homestead and the cultural revival.(pseudonym of George William Russell)
March 22, 2003... The Irish Homestead, the organ of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society, was a paper deeply embedded in the ethos of the cultural revival movement. Consequently, as editor of the paper from 1905-1923, AE's approach to agricultural...

'I am not yet delivered of the past': the poetry of Blanaid Salkeld (1).(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Blanaid Salkeld was an Irish poet, essayist, dramatist, translator, actress, and publisher who lived and worked between 1880 and 1959. (2) She was an enterprising and resourceful woman who set up her own press, and her poetry was published in...

'The outpouring of a morbid, unhealthy mind': the critical condition of Synge and McDonagh.(J.M. Synge and Martin McDonagh)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane (1996) was hailed by Fintan O'Toole as 'the most brilliant debut in modem Irish theatre since Tom Murphy and Noel O'Donoghue's On the Outside in 1959'. (1) Other judgements as to McDonagh's...

Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Sarah Fulford, Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry. Bern, Peter Lang, 2002. 292 pages. EUR 46.20 (paperback). Sarah Fulford has identified a topic in genuine need of discussion. There is a real shortage of serious extended analyses...

John Banville: Fictions of Order. Authority Authorship Authenticity. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Ingo Berensmeyer, John Banville: Fictions of Order. Authority Authorship Authenticity. Beitrage zur Literatur-, Sprach- und Medienwissenschaft, Bd. 142. Heidelberg, Universitatsverlag C. Winter Heidelberg, 2000. (No price given). Gerd...

Deconstructing Ireland: Identity, Theory, Culture. Series: Tendencies: Identities, Texts, Cultures. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Colin Graham, Deconstructing Ireland: Identity, Theory, Culture. Series: Tendencies: Identities, Texts, Cultures. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press. xiii + 189 pages GBP 45.00 (hardback); GBP 16.99 (paperback). I must begin by entering...

Literature, Partition and the Nation-State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Joe Cleary, Literature, Partition and the Nation-State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xii + 260 pages. No price given. One of the most frequently made criticisms of...

Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Joseph Valente, Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood. Champaign, Illinois, University of Illinois Press, 2001. 173 pages, USD 29.95 (hardback). Dracula (1897) has come a long way. Once regarded as almost...

Brendan Behan: Cultural Nationalism and the Revisionist Writer. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... John Brannigan, Brendan Behan: Cultural Nationalism and the Revisionist Writer. Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2002. 187 pages. EUR 38.07 (hardback). John Brannigan is a cultural historian whose central argument is that Behan's reputation has...

Circe's Cup: Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Ireland. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Clare Carroll, Circe's Cup: Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Ireland. Cork: Cork University Press, 2002. ix + 206 pages, 5 figures. EUR 24.50 (paperback). This book, by the Chair of Comparative Literature in Queen's College, City...

Talking About Tom Murphy. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Nicholas Grene (editor), Talking About Tom Murphy. Dublin, Carysfort Press, 2002. 115 pages. EUR 10.00 (paperback). In October of 2001, the Abbey and Peacock theatres staged a six-play retrospective as a festival in honour of the playwright...

The Face of the Earth. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Medbh McGuckian, The Face of the Earth. Oldcastle, The Gallery Press, 2002. 82 pages. EUR 17.50 (hardback); EUR 10.00 (paperback). To think about The Face of the Earth, a volume that appears to move away from the more 'outward looking'...

List of books received.
March 22, 2003... Abadi-Nagy, Zoltan (editor), HJEAS: Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies. Debrecen, Hungry. Vol. 6, No. 2 (Fall, 2000). 322 pages. No price given. Batt, Vivienne, Jane Conroy, Sheila Dickinson, Ann Lyons and Loma Shaughnessy...