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

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

From Clonmel to Peru: barbarism and civility in Vertue Rewarded; or, The Irish Princess.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Vertue Rewarded; or, The Irish Princess (1693) is one of the earliest recorded works of Irish prose fiction in the English language. Published just two years after the victory of the Protestant armies of William III over the Catholic forces of...

The place of memory: Alice Milligan, Ardrigh, and the 1898 centenary.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Every collective memory requires the support of a group delimited in space and time. (Maurice Halbwachs) I have turned to the landscape because men disappoint me. (John Hewitt, 'The Ram's Horn') In a time of increasing tension...

'I sing what was lost and dread what was won': W. B. Yeats and the legacy of censorship.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... The historiography of theatre censorship has recently undergone a transformation. Received wisdom formerly held that since there was no legislative censorship of theatres, no censorship occurred, but work by Joan FitzPatrick Dean and Peter...

'This endless land': Louis MacNeice and the USA.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... The poem 'Bar-Room Matins', composed by Louis MacNeice in an apartment on Fifth Avenue, New York in 1940, opens with the jaunty line: 'Popcorn peanuts clams and gum'. There is a transatlantic momentum at work here and this points up the...

Beckett's other revelation: The Capital of the Ruins.(Samuel Beckett)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Samuel Beckett's literary direction after 1945 is often attributed to the 'revelation' he experienced upon his return to Ireland after the war. (1) In this essay, I will explore the possibility that the literary and philosophical 'voice' to...

The banning of George Bernard Shaw's The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God and the decline of the Irish Academy of Letters.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... In 1928, Bernard Shaw wrote that Ireland's Censorship of Publications Bill represented 'the establishment of a Censorship extending in general terms to all human actions, but specifically aimed at any attempt to cultivate the vital passion of...

Irish Antigones: towards tragedy without borders?(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... At the heart of Sophocles's Antigone lies the moral dilemma of what to obey when it comes to the crunch: one's conscience, or the law. (1) Accordingly, contemporary versions have tended to emerge within restless political climates where such...

The homeward journey: the returning emigrant in recent Irish theatre.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Large-scale emigration has been a feature of life in Ireland since the mid-nineteenth century when the Great Famine forced approximately one million people to emigrate to America and England. Indeed, for the next century, from the 1840s to the...

'Put to silence': murder, madness, and 'moral neutrality' in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Martin McDonagh's the Lieutenant of Inishmore.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Father Welsh: You have no morals at all, it seems, Girleen. Girleen--I have plenty of morals only I don't keep whining on about them like some fellas. (Martin McDonagh, The Lonesome West) A youthful figure strolls through an area in...

IASIL Bibliography Bulletin for 2007.(Directory)
September 22, 2008... On behalf of the IASIL Bibliography Committee, I am pleased to present the 2007 edition of the Bibliography Bulletin. Thanks to information provided by scholars throughout the world, and especially by representatives in many countries, an...

IASIL bibliography for 2007.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2008... General Studies A. LITERATURE AKENSON, Donald Harman, 'Public Intellectuals: John A. Conor and the Lads in the Back', in The Irish Review, 36-37, pp. 129-33. ALLEN, Nicholas, & PATTEN, Eve, eds., That Island Never Found: Essays...

List of books reviewed.
September 22, 2008... Boltwood, Scott, Brian Friel, Ireland, and the North (Csilla Bertha) Farquharson, Danine and Sean Farrell (editors), Shadows of the Gunmen: Violence and Culture in Modern Ireland (Christopher Murray) Foster, John Wilson, Irish Novels,...

W. N. Osborough, Literature, Judges and the Law.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... W. N. Osborough, Literature, Judges and the Law. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 171 pages. EUR 55.00. As I was finalizing this review, a United States appeals court sent me back to the drawing board by releasing a Guantanamo Bay detainee...

Yvonne Scott (editor), Jack B. Yeats: Old and New Departures.
September 22, 2008... Yvonne Scott (editor), Jack B. Yeats: Old and New Departures. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 137 pages. EUR 55.00. This book is a result of a symposium held by the Irish Art Research Centre (TRIARC) in Trinity College, Dublin to accompany...

Thomas Kabdebo (editor), A Tribute To Attila Jozsef on the 70th Anniversary of His Death.
September 22, 2008... Thomas Kabdebo (editor), A Tribute To Attila Jozsef on the 70th Anniversary of His Death (Dublin: Abbey Press, 2007). No price given. When the position of the unsupported artist arises in discussion in Ireland, Patrick Kavanagh is...

Danine Farquharson and Sean Farrell (editors), Shadows of the Gunmen: Violence and Culture in Modern Ireland.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Danine Farquharson and Sean Farrell (editors), Shadows of the Gunmen: Violence and Culture in Modern Ireland. Cork: Cork University Press, 2008. vii + 232 pages. EUR 39.00; GBP25.00 (hardback). Here is a fascinating topic. Obviously,...

Clare Wallace, Suspect Cultures: Narrative, Identity and Citation in 1990s New Drama.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Clare Wallace, Suspect Cultures: Narrative, Identity and Citation in 1990s New Drama. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006. 335 pages. EUR 14.00 (paperback). Recent years have seen the establishment of the Institute for Irish and Scottish...

John Wilson Foster, Irish Novels, 1890-1940: New Bearings in Culture and Fiction.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... John Wilson Foster, Irish Novels, 1890-1940: New Bearings in Culture and Fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 510 pages. GBP 55.00. Recent decades have seen Irish novelists, such as John Banville and Colm Toibin, writing with...

Liam Harte and Yvonne Whelan (editors), Ireland Beyond Boundaries: Mapping Irish Studies in the Twenty-first Century.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Liam Harte and Yvonne Whelan (editors), Ireland Beyond Boundaries: Mapping Irish Studies in the Twenty-first Century. London, Dublin, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Pluto Press, 2007. 274 pages. No price given. Having its origins in the 1960s, when...

Jacqueline Genet, La Poesie de William Butler Yeats.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Jacqueline Genet, La Poesie de William Butler Yeats. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2007. 330 pages. EUR 21.00 (paperback). Jacqueline Genet, Professor Emerita at the Universit6 de Caen, is a person who is...

Pilar Villar-Argaiz, The Poetry of Eavan Boland: A Postcolonial Reading.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Pilar Villar-Argaiz, The Poetry of Eavan Boland: A Postcolonial Reading. Bethesda: Academica Press, 2008. 325 pages. USD 74.95. Can contemporary Irish poetry be viewed as postcolonial? The final section of Masters of British Literature, a...

Scott Boltwood, Brian Friel, Ireland, and the North.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Scott Boltwood, Brian Friel, Ireland, and the North. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv + 257 pages. GBP 50.00; USD 95.00 Delightfully, the number of book-length studies on Brian Friel's work has increased once again. After...

Donal Nevin (editor), Between Comrades: James Connolly, Letters and Correspondence, 1889-1916.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Donal Nevin (editor), Between Comrades: James Connolly, Letters and Correspondence, 1889-1916. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2007. 688 pages. EUR 29.99 (hardcover). The first collection of all James Connolly's extant letters, Between Comrades,...

List of books received.
September 22, 2008... Berry, Ciaran, The Sphere of Birds. Oldcastle, Co Meath: The Gallery Press, 2008. 82 pages. EUR 18.50 (hardback); EUR 11.95 (paperback). Bruni Roccia, Gioiella, Myriadminded Men: Coleridge and Joyce. Roma: Bulzoni Editore, 2008. 143 pages....