Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies articles from September 2002

Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies archives from September 2002

Exit/Entrance.
September 22, 2002... With this issue of the Irish University Review, my tenth, I step down as editor of what I have always regarded as the outstanding journal in the crowded field of Irish Studies. I have very much enjoyed the five years, feel I have made my...

The Roman novel in Irish writers.
September 22, 2002... 1 While much attention has been given to the appropriation of Greek tragedy by contemporary Irish poets and dramatists, (1) and the Homeric parallels to Joyce's Ulysses have long been noted, (2) the impact of the Roman novels of Petronius...

'All them rocks in the sea': Ulysses as immram.
September 22, 2002... Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage... - Joachim du Bellay, Les Regrets XXXI In the sixteenth, or 'Eumaeus' episode of Ulysses, Bloom and Stephen encounter D.B. Murphy of Carrigloe, a seaman just off 'The threemaster...

Queering knowledge in Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman.
September 22, 2002... Critics of Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman (1967) have habitually misread gender and sexuality in the novel's notorious bicycle sex-scene. They have both taken for granted that the bicycle with which the male narrator has an intimate sexual...

The predicament of individuality in Angela's Ashes.
September 22, 2002... Since publication in 1996, Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt, has already elicited substantial critical response. Brief notice of three such evaluations will indicate the range of reception. Peter Lenz approaches the memoir in terms of relevant...

'By escaping and [leaving] a mark': authority and the writing subject of the poetry of Medbh McGuckian.
September 22, 2002... 'A poem dreams of being written', writes Medbh McGuckian, 'without the pronoun "I"'. (1) McGuckian's 'I' may, in fact, be among the most highly contested and theoretically elusive in contemporary poetry This particular inquiry aims to...

The weather in Japan: tact and tension in Michael Longley's new Elegies.
September 22, 2002... Michael Longley's recent elegies strike a painstaking balance between loss and gain. Their taut, paradoxical interplay between wound and balm builds upon the even-handed response his work has always made to death. As early as 'Wounds' of An...

Brian Friel: staging the struggle with nationalism.
September 22, 2002... The problem is not simply the 'selfhood' of the nation as opposed to the otherness of other nations. We are confronted with the nation split within itself, articulating the heterogeneity of its population. (1) Homi Bhabha I The...

'They raigne ouer change, and doe their states maintaine': change, stasis, and postcoloniality in Frank McGuinness's Mutabilitie.
September 22, 2002... ... all things stedfastnes doe hate And changed be: yet being rightly wayd They are not changed from their first estate; But by their change their being doe dilate: And turning to themselues at length againe,...

IASIL Bibliography Bulletin for 2001.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2002... The Bibliography Subcommittee continues to produce the IASIL Bibliography with unflagging energy. Lis Christensen and Gerd Bjorhovde, who have provided the Danish and Norwegian material respectively for many years, retire from the...

List of books reviewed.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2002... Barton, Ruth, Jim Sheridan: Framing the Nation (Conor McCarthy) Corbett, Tony, Brian Friel: Decoding the Language of the Tribe (Conor McCarthy) Cullingford, Elizabeth Butler, Ireland's Others: Gender and Ethnicity in Irish Literature...

Jim Sheridan: Framing the Nation & Brian Friel: Decoding the Language of the Tribe & John Banville: Exploring Fictions & Seamus Heaney: Creating Irelands of the Mind. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Ruth Barton, Jim Sheridan: Framing the Nation. Dublin: Liffey Press, 2002. 175 pages. EUR 16.50 (paperback). Tony Corbett, Brian Friel: Decoding the Language of the Tribe. Dublin: Liffey Press, 2002. 188 pages. EUR 16.50 (paperback). ...

Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Gerry Smyth, Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination. London: Palgrave, 2001. xviii + 228 pages. GBP 49.50 Gerry Smyth's Decolonisation and Criticism: The Construction of Irish Literature (Pluto, 1998) is an important and original work. In...

Collected Poems. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Michael Hartnett, Collected Poems, edited by Peter Fallon. Oldcastle: Gallery Books, 2001.255 pages. (No price given). In an editor's note appended to this volume, Peter Fallon explains the scope of the Collected Poems and some of his...

The Nowhere Birds. (Book Review).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Caitriona O'Reilly, The Nowhere Birds. Northumberland: Bloodaxe, 2001. 64 pages. GBP 6.95 (paperback). Caitriona O'Reilly's debut collection, The Nowhere Birds, grows in strength as the volume progress. Many of the earlier poems are...

Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Cultivating the People. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Lionel Pilkington, Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Cultivating the People. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. x + 262 pages. No price given. In this very significant book the title is all-important. It describes a...

An Irish Literary Dictionary and Glossary. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Richard Wall, An Irish Literary Dictionary and Glossary. Gerrards Cross, Colin Smythe, 2001. 374 pages. GBP 36.00. This is a most useful book, which encompasses and extends the work of the author's two earlier studies, An Anglo-Irish...

Tragedy and Irish Literature: Synge, O'Casey, Beckett. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Ronan McDonald, Tragedy and Irish Literature: Synge, O'Casey, Beckett. London: Palgrave, 2002. 201 pages. STG 42.50. Tragedy, pace George Steiner, may not be dead after all. Terry Eagleton's latest theoretical blockbuster, Sweet Violence:...

Reading Roddy Doyle. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Caramine White, Reading Roddy Doyle. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2001. 200 pages. STG 12.95 (paperback). 'One of the brightest stars on the Irish literary scene today' (p. 1) is how White announces her subject, Roddy Doyle, and...

A History of Irish Theatre, 1601-2000. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Christopher Morash, A History of Irish Theatre, 1601-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xviii + 322 pages. GBP 40.00 (hardback). '7 September 1601. The Great Hall of Dublin Castle is alight with dozens of wax candles,...

Ireland's Others: Gender and Ethnicity in Irish Literature and Popular Culture. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Ireland's Others: Gender and Ethnicity in Irish Literature and Popular Culture. Critical Conditions: Field Day Essays, Volume 10. Cork: Cork University Press in association with Field Day, 2001. xi + 304 pages. EUR...

List of books received.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2002... Augusteijn, Joost, The Irish Revolution, 1913-1923. London: Palgrave, 2002. xiii + 248 pages. No price given. Brannigan, John, Brendan Behan: Cultural Nationalism and the Revisionist Writer. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002. 188 pages. EUR...