Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies articles from March 2008

Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies archives from March 2008

Introduction: Benedict Kiely and the persona of the Irish writer.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... The friends that have it I do wrong When ever I remake a song Should know what issue is at stake, It is myself that I remake (W.B. Yeats). (1) What is clear from even a cursory reading of the essays gathered together in...

Kiely's Carleton and the making of a writer.(Benedict Kiely, William Carleton)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... As a novelist, short story writer, critic, biographer, and journalist, Ben Kiely's career spanned sixty years; he was a man-of-letters who was renowned as a raconteur, a social skill that found its professional expression in his many radio...

Benedict Kiely: a master at work.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... The process of writing is a furtive sort of business. It happens best in complete seclusion, with an open-ended day ahead. I know this not only from experience but from the occasional questioning of colleagues. I've never known or heard of any...

Provincial life: the early novels of Benedict Kiely.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... At 762 pages in the Methuen edition, the weight and the heft of The Collected Stories of Benedict Kiely virtually guarantee that Kiely will be best remembered as a writer of short fiction. Moreover, that gathering ensures that he will be...

'The Sound of a Man's Voice Speaking': narrative strategies in Benedict Kiely's short stories.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... 'Never forgetful of the method of the old-storyteller, he pulled his chair to the corner of the fire, told his listener tales that were humorous or sad or terrible': this description of William Carleton's art in Benedict Kiely's Poor Scholar...

A Room in Donnybrook.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2008... A Room in Donnybrook In memory of Ben Kiely The first man ever to hear Paddy Kavanagh Sing 'Raglan Road' to 'The Dawning of the Day,' Who, indeed, lifted his voice and sang it with him, Is lying with the counterpane up...

Benedict Kiely's criticism in the nineteen forties.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... The middle decades of the twentieth century have been to a large extent overshadowed by a recent critical emphasis on the Revival and contemporary periods and the way in which Irish literary history has linked them. Obviously, there are a...

The heavens be his bed.(Benedict Kiely)
March 22, 2008... My father, the heavens be his bed, was a terrible man for telling you about the places he had been and for bringing you there if he could and displaying them to you with a mild and gentle air of proprietorship (Benedict Kiely, 'A Journey to the...

Revisitations: Kiely's literary criticism.(Benedict Kiely)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... I Benedict Kiely's most sustained critical achievement was his slim book, Modern Irish Fiction: A Critique (1950), a survey of Irish novels and story collections published between roughly 1918 and 1948 (though with some backward looks)....

'My Town': Proxopera and the politics of remembrance.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... I In May 1945, the twenty six-year-old, Benedict Kiely published a fascinating book, Counties of Contention, subtitled, A Study of the Origins and Implications of the Partition of Ireland. The study was re-issued in 2004 by the original...

Benedict Kiely's troubles fiction: from postcolonialism to postmodernism.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... From the beginning, Benedict Kiely has been a deeply 'rooted' writer, drawing inspiration from his native place in and around Omagh, Co Tyrone. Like the seanachai, he speaks from deep down in his environment, his stories a species of...

A journey to the Seven Boxes: an exploration of the Benedict Kiely papers in the National Library of Ireland.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... As a writer and librarian who has worked for many years in the Manuscript Department of the National Library of Ireland, observing the acquisition of literary collections by the National Library and other institutions, I have often asked...

Benedict Kiely: a select bibliography.(Author bibliography)(Recommended readings)
March 22, 2008... I. Short Stories A Journey to the Seven Streams: Seventeen Stories. London: Methuen, 1963. A Ball of Malt and Madame Butterfly: A Dozen Stories. London: Gollancz, 1973. A Cow in the House and Nine Other Stories. London: Gollancz,...

Eamon Maher and Grace Neville (editors), France-Ireland: Anatomy of a Relationship.(France-Ireland: Anatomy of a Relationship - Studies in History, Literature and Politics)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Eamon Maher and Grace Neville (editors), France-Ireland: Anatomy of a Relationship. Frankfurt-am-Main: Lang, 2004. 372 pages. No price given. France-Ireland: Anatomy of a Relationship, subtitled Studies in History, Literature and Politics,...

Andrew Gibson, Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Andrew Gibson, Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv+322 pages. GBP 50.00 hardback. The publication in 2006 of Andrew Gibson's Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency was an...

Brian Cosgrove, James Joyce's Negations: Irony, Indeterminacy and Nihilism in Ulysses.(Imagining Joyce and Derrida: Between Finnegans Wake and Glas)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Brian Cosgrove, James Joyce's Negations: Irony, Indeterminacy and Nihilism in Ulysses. Dublin: UCD Press, 2007. ix+256 pages. GBP42.00. Peter Mahon, Imagining Joyce and Derrida: Between Finnegans Wake and Glas. Toronto: University of...

Heather Ingman, Twentieth-Century Fiction by Irish Women: Nation and Gender.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Heather Ingman, Twentieth-Century Fiction by Irish Women: Nation and Gender. Ashgate: Aldershot, 2007. 200 pages. No price given. In exploring 'twentieth-century fiction by Irish women' in the light of Kristevian theories, Heather Ingman's...

Madeline Kingston, (editor), Stimulus of Sin: Selected Writings of John Broderick.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Madeline Kingston, (editor), Stimulus of Sin: Selected Writings of John Broderick. Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 2007. 240 pages. EUR 16.99 (paperback). The Athlone novelist John Broderick (1924-1989) is a sadly neglected figure, and for...

Andrew Gibson and Len Platt, (editors), Joyce, Ireland, Britain.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Andrew Gibson and Len Platt, (editors), Joyce, Ireland, Britain. Gainsville: University of Florida Press, 2006. 243 pages. EUR 45.23 (hardcover). A contribution to what its editors call 'historical Joyce scholarship', and published as the...

Helen O'Connell, Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Helen O'Connell, Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 240 pages. GBP 53.00 (hardback). In an absorbing study of Irish literary culture in the post-Union period, Ireland and the Fiction of...

List of books received.
March 22, 2008... Allen, Nicholas and Eve Patten (editors), That Island Never Found: Essays and Poems for Terence Brown. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. 199 pages. EUR 55.00 (hardback). Badin, Donatella, Lady Morgan's Italy: Anglo-Irish Sensibilities and...