Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies articles from September 2005

Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies archives from September 2005

'She set me writing my first play': Laura Armstrong and Yeats's early drama.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... 'She interests me far more than Miss Gonne does and yet is [sic] only as a myth and a symbol.' (1) Critics have not been kind to Laura Armstrong, the first woman to inspire Yeats to write plays and verse. Scholars tend to overlook...

Carlo Goldoni in Dublin: Lady Gregory's translation of La Locandiera.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... 'Who is Goldoni? What is his place in the literature of his country?' (1) This somewhat perplexed reaction in the Irish Nation to the first production of Lady Augusta Gregory's Mirandolina, her translation from Goldoni's La Locandiera, is...

Beckett reviewing MacGreevy: a reconsideration.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... Beckett's friendship with Thomas MacGreevy was one of the most important sustaining bonds of his young adult life, particularly during the nineteen thirties. The pair exchanged letters on a regular basis, and MacGreevy's patient ear was an...

'Neither here nor there': representing the liminal in Irish poetry.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... In 1998 Paul Muldoon gave the renowned Clarendon Lectures at Oxford University. This was in the year before his election as Oxford Professor of Poetry, but the lectures would be published under the title To Ireland, I already during his term...

Rites of defilement: abjection and the body politic in Northern Irish poetry.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... It might be argued that Northern Ireland--a territorial and signifying space whose meanings and boundaries have been so violently contested, a body politic sustained and racked by anomalous and permeable partition--has been in the condition of...

Disrupting metanarratives: Anne Devlin, Christina Reid, Marina Carr, and the Irish dramatic repertory.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... This essay asks: what is it that women's dramatic literature exposes and interrogates? It proposes that drama by women disrupts hegemonic narratives, resulting in a popular and critical perception that such work exists outside of the mainstream...

Nation and gender in Jennifer Johnston: a Kristevan reading.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... Jennifer Johnston is a writer whose fiction has attracted much criticism, notably from Rudiger Imhof in his study, The Modern Irish Novel, where he takes Johnston to task both for the implausibility of her plots and for deficiencies of...

'Without a blink of her lovely eye': the Pleasure of Eliza Lynch and visionary scepticism.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2002) is a historical novel with a female figure at its centre, set in nineteenth-century Paris and Paraguay. It is a remarkable achievement which deserves much more attention from critics and readers of serious...

Reading and writing race in Ireland: Roddy Doyle and Metro Eireann (1).(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... Several reviewers familiar with Roddy Doyle's earlier novels expressed surprise at the centrality of race issues in Oh, Play That Thing, the second book in a projected trilogy called 'The Last Roundup' that began with A Star Called Henry. In...

Review essay: the trials and triumphs of the Gaelic literary movement: Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State, 1922-1939.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... As one would expect for the development of a language in a newly founded independent State, the literary and historical period, 1922-1939, which is portrayed in this book, proved to be vibrant and controversial but lacking in definitive...

IASIL Bibliography Bulletin for 2004.
September 22, 2005... On behalf of the Bibliography Committee, I am pleased to present another installment of the Bibliography Bulletin. Readers should be aware that at the AGM in Galway last year it was decided that translations of Irish literary works into...

IASIL Bibliography for 2004.(International Association for the Study of Irish Literature)
September 22, 2005... General Studies ALONSO GIRALDEZ, Jose Miguel, 'El fulgor y la tragedia en la vida domdstica. Mito, realidad y "Sense of Place" en la poesfa irlandesa contempordnea / Splendour and Tragedy in Domestic Life. Myth, Reality, and "Sense of...

List of books reviewed.
September 22, 2005... Burleigh, David (editor), Helen Waddell's Writings from Japan (Jennifer FitzGerald) Cleary, Joe and Claire Connolly (editors), The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (Carol Taaffe) Guinness, Selina, The New Irish Poets...

Rudiger Imhof, A Short History of Irish Literature.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Rudiger Imhof, A Short History of Irish Literature. Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Verlag, 2002. 176 pages. EUR 10.20. Michael L. Storey. Representing the Troubles in Irish Short Fiction. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2004. xi...

Joe Cleary and Claire Connolly (editors), The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Joe Cleary and Claire Connolly (editors), The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xvi + 363 pages. GBP 45.00 (hardback); GBP 16.00 (paperback). This addition to the Cambridge Companion...

Sharon Murphy, Maria Edgeworth and Romance.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Sharon Murphy, Maria Edgeworth and Romance. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004. 208 pages. EUR 45.00. In the past decade, critical interest in Maria Edgeworth has grown significantly. Long seen as an inferior Jane Austen, the political turn...

Helen Waddell's Writings from Japan.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Helen Waddell's Writings from Japan. Edited and Introduced by David Burleigh. Dublin and Portland, Oregon: Irish Academic Press, 2005. 184 pages. EUR 42.50/ STG 35 (hardback); EURO 25/ STG 17.50 (paperback). The name of Helen Waddell has a...

Kevin Rockett, Irish Film Censorship: A Cultural Journey from Silent Cinema to Internet Pornography.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Kevin Rockett, Irish Film Censorship: A Cultural Journey from Silent Cinema to Internet Pornography. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004. 496 pages. No price given. Issues related to post-independence film censorship and censorship of...

Lucy McDiarmid, The Irish Art of Controversy.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Lucy McDiarmid, The Irish Art of Controversy. Dublin: Lilliput, 2005. xviii + 280 pages. No price given. Lucy McDiarmid's The Irish Art of Controversy is one of the most refreshingly original works to enhance Irish Studies in recent years....

John McGahern, Memoir.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... John McGahern, Memoir. London: Faber and Faber, 2005. 272 pages. GBP 16.99 (hardback). In his long-awaited new Memoir, John McGahern revisits the places that are so familiar to the readers of his novels and short stories. Any reader of...

Selina Guiness: The New Irish Poets.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Selina Guiness, The New Irish Poets. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 2004. 336 pages. GBP 10.95 (paperback). Selina Guinness's, The New Irish Poets, joins a steady stream of recent anthologies of British and Irish poetry. The last...

Sylvie Mikowski, Le roman irlandais contemporain.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Sylvie Mikowski, Le roman irlandais contemporain. Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2004. 294 pages. EUR 20.00. Any serious study of the contemporary Irish novel will of necessity involve trawling through an immense amount of primary...

Twenty-First Joyce.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Twenty-First Joyce, edited by Ellen Carol Jones and Morris Beja. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. USD 65.00. This collection of essays takes advantage of the new century to celebrate the continuing contemporaneity of Joyce...

List of books received.
September 22, 2005... Abadi-Nagy, Zoltan (editor), HJEAS: Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies. Debrecen, Hungary. Vol. 10, Nos. 1-2 (Spring/Fall, 2004). 360 pages. No price given. Aldous, Richard, Macmillan, Eisenhower and the Cold War. Dublin:...