Irish Literature

"A Terrible Beauty": Yeats and the Easter 1916 Rising

by Jim Clarke

Opening lecture at the 2012 Saor Ollscoil na hEireann Summer School on the 1916 Rising, 24th May 2012, 8pm.

“Sin and Redemption in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” in Bloom’s Literary Themes: Sin and Redemption. Eds. Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby. New York: Chelsea House, 2010: 223-230

by neil murphy

Benjamin Black and John Banville: The Legitimacy of The Irish Literary Persona

by Kevin Boyle

Conference paper.

"Aidan Higgins," Review of Contemporary Fiction, Fall 2003 Vol. XXIII, no. 3: 49-84.

by neil murphy

"Flann O'Brien", Review of Contemporary Fiction. Fall 2005 Vol. XXV, no. 3: 7-41.

by neil murphy

Review of Contemporary Fiction. Fall 2005 Vol. XXV, no. 3: 7-41.

Ìomhaigh Gàidhealtachd na h-Albann ann am Bàrdachd Èireannach Linn nan Seumasach: Eòlas, Aineolas agus Breug-eòlas

by Wilson McLeod

from Fil súil nglais — A Grey Eye Looks Back: a Festschrift in honour of Colm Ó Baoill, ed. by Sharon Arbuthnot and Kaarina Hollo, 97-104 (Clann Tuirc, 2007)

Tha e follaiseach nach robh mòran fiosrachadh dualchasach
aig bàird Sheumasach na h-Èireann mu Ghàidhealtachd na... more Tha e follaiseach nach robh mòran fiosrachadh dualchasach
aig bàird Sheumasach na h-Èireann mu Ghàidhealtachd na h-Albann, agus gur ann à tobraichean agus tuigsean saoghal na Beurla (pàipearan-naidheachd agus òrain nan daoine gu sònraichte) a fhuair iad a’ mhòr-chuid de na bha aca mun ghnothach.

"My Heart Beats As Though It Were / Hers": Medbh McGuckian's Intertextual Dialogues with Women in Marconi's Cottage

by Michaela Schrage-Frueh

published in: Nordic Irish Studies 8 (2009): 43-56.

"Land of the Luas": Dublin's 'Fast City' in Contemporary Irish Writing

by Michaela Schrage-Frueh

published in: Proceedings : Anglistentag 2010 Saarbrücken, ed. Joachim Frenk (Trier : WVT, Wiss. Verl. Trier, 2001) 351 - 360 .

"The Danger of Biscuit-Coloured Silk": Dress, Playfulness and Sensuality in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian and Paula Meehan

by Michaela Schrage-Frueh

published in: The Playful Air of Light(ness) in Irish Literature and Culture, ed. Marta Goszczynska and Katarzyna Poloczek (Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010) 95 - 114.

Review of Contemporary Fiction: Flann O'Brien: Centenary Essays

by neil murphy

Edited by Neil Murphy & Keith Hopper: Celebrating one hundred years of Flann O'Brien, this issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction gathers literary appreciations and critical investigations by Aidan Higgins, Thierry Robin, Carlos Villar Flor, Joseph Brooker, and others.

The Buzzing of B

by James Carney

Published in Beckett Re-Membered: After the Centenary. (Newcastle upon Tyne: CSP, 2012.

This article traces and comments on zoomorphic imagery in Samuel Beckett's Molloy. Its basic claim is that Beckett's... more This article traces and comments on zoomorphic imagery in Samuel Beckett's Molloy. Its basic claim is that Beckett's use of this imagery allows him to ethically engage with a material reality (what Adorno terms 'the zone of the carcass and the knacker') that is excluded by traditional humanism.

Re-Translations, or, Can the Postcolonial Construct a Home? A Reading of Brian Friel's The Communication Cord

by Aidan O'Malley

Published in: 'EnterText', 2003, 2; 2, pp. 68-83

Rhyming Hope and History in the'Fifth Province

by Aidan O'Malley

Published in: Michael J. Griffin and Tom Moylan (eds), 'Exploring the Utopian Impulse: Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice', Oxford/Bern/New York, Peter Lang, 2007, pp. 293-311

Hosting Chekhov: A Reading of Brian Friel's Translation of Three Sisters

by Aidan O'Malley

Published in: Fionnuala Dillane and Ronan Kelly (eds), 'New Voices in Irish Criticism 4', Dublin/Portland, Four Courts Press, 2003, 115-124

Nationalism in Exotic Clothes? Postcolonial Thinking, Gender and Translation in 'The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing'

by Aidan O'Malley

Published in: 'Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies' No. 54, Jan-June 2008

Praeteritio":(Non-) Possession and the Translational Impulse in Ní Chuilleanáin's Work

by Aidan O'Malley

Published in: 'Irish University Review', Vol. 37, No. 1, Spring - Summer, 2007

Issue 3.1 Postcolonial Ireland, Editorial

by Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings

Issue 3.1 Postcolonial Ireland, Table of Contents

by Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings

"Ooftish": Writing, Orality, and the Specter of Yiddish in an Early Poem by Samuel Beckett

by Marc Caplan

Published in Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui 23, Edited by Yann Mével, Dominique Rabaté, and Sjef Houppermans (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi) 2012

Ossian: a Case of Celtic Tribalism or a Translation without an Original

by Gauti Kristmannsson

Transfer: Übersetzen--Dolmetschen--Interkulturalität. Frankfurt/M: Peter Lang, 1997, 449´462

This paper considers the involvement of Samuel Johnson in the Ossianic wars of the 1760s and 1770s. The Irish... more This paper considers the involvement of Samuel Johnson in the Ossianic wars of the 1760s and 1770s. The Irish intellectuals thought that James Macpherson's Ossian was stolen from their heritage and called for the support of Johnson and probablz rewarded him with a finde degree.