Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies articles from March 2004

Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies archives from March 2004

Introduction.(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... The current Special Issue of the Irish University Review on Lady Gregory was prompted by a double impetus, at once commemorative and exploratory. In the centenary year of the Abbey Theatre the occasion to acknowledge the work and contribution...

Acknowledgements and erratum.(Correction Notice)
March 22, 2004... We would like to thank Dublin City Council and Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane for permission to reproduce Antonio Mancini's portrait, Lady Augusta Gregory, on our cover. We apologize to Brian O Conchubhair for an error in the title of...

'A young man's ghost': Lady Gregory and J. M. Synge.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1923 Yeats remarked that by rights 'two forms should have stood, one at either side of me,' to join in receiving the honour: 'an old woman sinking into the infirmity of age and a young man's ghost'. (1)...

Finding a voice: Augusta Gregory, Raftery, and cultural nationalism, 1899-1900.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Between the summer of 1899 and May 1900 Augusta Gregory produced a verse play, several articles and letters on the Irish-speaking poet, Anthony Raftery, a piece on a folkloric prophecy and an essay on patriotic ballads, 'The Felons of Our...

Lady Gregory and Italy: a lasting and profitable relationship.
March 22, 2004... Lady Gregory's relationship with Italy was a long and profitable one and her biography as well as her literary work provide evidence for this fact which still has not been investigated except for a recent conference in Italy. (1) In considering...

'Wage for each people her hand has destroyed': Lady Gregory's colonial nationalism.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... The title of this essay is taken from one of the 'Boer Ballads' that Lady Gregory first collected in 1901 and then included in Poets and Dreamers (1903). The ballad insisted that England was a queen who would lose her crown as: Her...

Lady Gregory, Wilfrid Blunt, and London Table Talk.
March 22, 2004... 'A man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world'. Oscar Wilde, 1893 'Since the wealth elite was also the power elite, high society was an essential adjunct to political life, where dinner parties might be as...

The making of a celebrity: Lady Gregory and the Abbey's first Amercian tour.
March 22, 2004... In late September 1911, Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory sailed from Ireland to Boston, arriving on the twenty-ninth of that month to guide the Irish Players of the Abbey Theatre through their first tour of America. (1) The visit, arranged by the...

'Kindness in your unkindness': Lady Gregory and history.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... As a writer of narrative versions of Irish mythology and folk history plays, Lady Gregory was obliged to address the relation between Irish mythology and Irish history that preoccupied scholars and literary figures such as Standish O'Grady and...

Yeats and the death of Lady Gregory.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... W. B. Yeats's friendship with Augusta Gregory was the great enabling relationship of his life. Much as the heroes of Victorian novels experience a 'rescue into love', in 1896 he was rescued into a friendship which sustained him for the next...

Revaluations: representations of women in the tragedies of Gregory and Yeats (1).(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Lady Gregory's professed agenda in devoting herself to the theatrical movement was to bring dignity to Ireland. The stage history of her tragedies is meagre, yet it is in Kincora, Dervorgilla, and Grania that a further possible agenda of...

Lady Gregory and the feminine journey: The Gaol Gate, Grania, and The Story Brought by Brigit.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Since Carl Jung's theory of archetypes and Joseph Campbell's application of such ideas to the journey of the hero, scholars have noted treatments of the journey myth in a wealth of texts. Lady Augusta Gregory, a writer well acquainted with myth...

Lady Gregory's 'humour of character': a Commedia approach to Spreading the News.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... In one regard, reading comic drama hinges on a contradictory invitation issued by the playwright through the text: how might the words summon to the mind's stage an inkling of laughter-provoking incarnation, despite the sheer impossibility of...

The new woman in a New Ireland?: Grania after naturalism.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... '... in the theater, what you see isn't always what you get--and vice versa'. (1) The end of the nineteenth, and the beginning of the twentieth centuries have been identified as a period in which radical re-conceptions of womanhood were...

Re-working The Workhouse Ward: McDonagh, Beckett, and Gregory.
March 22, 2004... Of the many roles which Lady Gregory played in the founding and sustaining of Ireland's national theatre--with what Yeats has described as 'her practical ideas, her energy and her influence' (1)--that of 'playwright' has been sidelined and...

List of books reviewed.
March 22, 2004... De Petris, Carla and Maria Stella (editors), Continente Irlanda: Storia e Scritture Contemporanee (Corinna Salvadori Lonergan) Foster, R. F., W. B. Yeats: A Life: Vol. II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939 (Douglas Archibald) Fuller, Louise,...

Louise Fuller, Irish Catholicism Since 1950: the Undoing of a Culture.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Louise Fuller, Irish Catholicism Since 1950: The Undoing of a Culture. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2002. 380 pages. No price given. The problem with most analyses of the curious animal known as the Celtic Tiger, is that they emerge from...

Helen Lojek (ed.), The Theatre of Frank McGuinness: Stages of Mutability.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Helen Lojek (ed.), The Theatre of Frank McGuinness: Stages of Mutability. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2002. 197 pages. EUR15.00 (paperback). Hiroko Mikami, Frank McGuinness and his Theatre of Paradox. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 2002. xiv + 263...

Carla De Petris and Maria Stella, (ed.), Continente Irlanda. Storia e scritture contemporanee.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Carla De Petris and Maria Stella, (ed.), Continente Irlanda. Storia e scritture contemporanee. Rome: Carocci, 2001. 303 pages. EUR 20.66. Continente Irlanda has been generated by passione irlandese, a passion that has fired an excellent...

Eugene O'Brien, Seamus Heaney and the Place of Writing.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Eugene O'Brien, Seamus Heaney and the Place of Writing. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. 191 pages. USD 55.00. In an essay of 1979 for The Crane Bag, Mark Patrick Hederman argued for a Heideggerian Heaney, a poet of--to cite...

Dennis O'Driscoll, Exemplary Damages.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Dennis O'Driscoll, Exemplary Damages (London: Anvil, 2002). 88 pages. GBP 7.95 (paperback). Justin Quinn, Fuselage (Meath: Gallery, 2002). 62 pages. EUR 17.50 (hardback); EUR 10.00 (paperback). Dennis O'Driscoll's poetry has followed...

R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats: a Life, Vol. II: the Arch-Poet, 1915-1939.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats: A Life, Vol. II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939. Oxford, OUP, 2003. 798 pages. EUR 43.18 (hardback). Both Volume I, The Apprentice Mage (1997), and Volume II are dedicated to F.S.L. Lyons whose early death in 1983 led...

List of books received.
March 22, 2004... Bort, Eberhard (editor), Commemorating Ireland: History, Politics, Culture. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2003. 288 pages. EUR 40.00/GBP 30.00/ USD 45.00 (hardback). Boss, Michael and Irene Gilsenan Nordin (editors), Nordic Irish Studies....