Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies articles from September 2006

Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies archives from September 2006

'As good as any bloody play in the Queen's Royal Theatre': performing the nation in the 'Cyclops' episode of Ulysses.(James Joyce)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... In their introduction to a seminal collection of essays, Semicolonial Joyce, Marjorie Howes and Derek Attridge observe that 'The rise of postcolonial perspectives in Irish studies has generated a good deal of controversy, nowhere more so than...

Mairtin O Cadhain's Cre na Cille: a narratological approach.
September 22, 2006... Mairtin O Cadhain's novel Cre na Cille (Graveyard Soil) won the Oireachtas literary competition in 1947. Recognized almost immediately as a classic, the book, set among the dead in a Conamara graveyard, was serialized in the Irish Press between...

Citation and spectrality in Flann O'Brien's at Swim-Two-Birds.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... A bird-man is a chimera, as much the inheritor of humanity's propensity to fall as of the avian gift of flight. In his exuberantly experimental 1939 novel, At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O'Brien borrows the flighty Sweeny (his preferred spelling)...

Thomas Kinsella's 'Downstream' revisions.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... In 1971, Thomas Dillon Redshaw published a magisterial account of Thomas Kinsella's poem-sequence Wormwood and the changes it underwent between its first Irish publication in 1966 and its inclusion in the American edition of Nightwalker and...

The sea of disappointment: Thomas Kinsella's 'Nightwalker' and the New Ireland.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... The notes for what was at one stage in its composition called 'Walking at Night' reveal Thomas Kinsella preparing himself to take Irish poetry into, in Gerald Dawe's phrase, 'uncharted territory'. (1) Dawe has in mind here the 'hostility and...

The Dublin-Moscow Line: Russia and the poetics of home in contemporary Irish poetry.
September 22, 2006... In Invisible Cities, Kublai Khan quizzes Marco Polo about his obsession with foreign lands, surmising whether it is to 'relive your past' or 'recover your future'. Marco Polo replies: 'Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveller recognizes...

Staging the indeterminate: Brian Friel's Faith Healer as a postdramatic theatre-text.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Brian Friel's Faith Healer (written in 1977, (1) and premiered on 5 April 1979) has earned a great deal of public acclaim and scholarly attention, and rightly sits as one of the playwright's finest works in a repertoire that is rich, long, and...

Staging histories in Marina Carr's Midlands plays.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Marina Carr is one of Ireland's foremost contemporary playwrights. Still at a relatively early stage in her career, she already has an impressive list of plays to her credit and has received critical acclaim not only in Ireland but...

IASIL Bibliography Bulletin for 2005.(The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures)
September 22, 2006... On behalf of the Bibliography Committee, I am pleased to present the 2005 instalment of the Bibliography Bulletin. Possible changes to the future presentation of the Bulletin were discussed at the IASIL AGM in Sydney this year, and the...

IASIL Bibliography for 2005.(The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures)(Bibliography)
September 22, 2006... General Studies ABBATE BADIN, Donatella, 'Identita irlandese e interculturalita: alla ricerca di un modello / Irish Identity and Interculture: in Search of a Model', in Proietti, P., ed., L'Europa nel terzo millennio. Identita nazionali e...

Seamus Deane, Foreign Affections: Essays on Edmund Burke.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Seamus Deane, Foreign Affections: Essays on Edmund Burke. Critical Conditions: Field Day Essays. Cork: Cork University Press in Association with Field Day, 2005. EUR 29 (paperback). This series of essays analyzes Edmund Burke's...

Declan Kiberd, The Irish Writer and the World.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Declan Kiberd, The Irish Writer and the World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 332 pages. STG 45 [pounds sterling] (hardback), 14.99 [pounds sterling] (paperback). Few have shaped Irish Studies as decisively as Declan Kiberd. A...

John McDonagh and Stephen Newman (editors), Remembering Michael Hartnett.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... John McDonagh and Stephen Newman (editors), Remembering Michael Hartnett. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006. 176 pages. EUR 45 (hardback). As is so often the case, Michael Hartnett's star never shone so brightly during his life as it is...

Anne Fogarty and Timothy Martin, editors, Joyce on the Threshold.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Anne Fogarty and Timothy Martin, editors, Joyce on the Threshold. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. xi+299 pages. USD 65.00. Joyce on the Threshold collects fourteen of the most interesting papers given at the London 2000...

Cliona O Gallchoir, Maria Edgeworth: Women, Enlightenment, Nation.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Cliona O Gallchoir, Maria Edgeworth: Women, Enlightenment, Nation. Dublin: UCD Press, 2005. xi+221pp. 55 [euro] (42 [pounds sterling]) Hardback 25 [euro] (18.95 [pounds sterling]) Paperback. In Maria Edgeworth: Women, Enlightenment and...

Thomas Dillon Redshaw (editor), Well Dreams: Essays on John Montague.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Thomas Dillon Redshaw (editor), Well Dreams: Essays on John Montague. Omaha: Creighton University Press, 2004. 443 pages. USD 24. John Montague's long and prolific career as a leading voice in contemporary Irish letters, somewhat...

List of books received.
September 22, 2006... Armand, Louis and Clare Wallace (editors), Giacomo Joyce: Envoys of The Other. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, Charles University, 2006. viii +387 pages. EUR 15.00/USD 20.00/GBP 10.00/AUD 25.00 (paperback). Belchem, John, Merseypride:...