...Padraig Kirwan Much has been written about the manner in which Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy explores Irish identity on the island of Ireland. This essay examines the novel from an international perspective, paying particular attention to the novel's transatlantic imagery and its intertextual...

...Michael Rubenstein Transatlantic Solidarities: Irish Nationalism and Caribbean Poetics . By Malouf Michael . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2009 . 280 p. © 2012 by University of Oregon 2012 BOOK REVIEWS...

... the contemporary Irish context, in particular the end of the Northern Irish Troubles. In Heaney's hands, Antigone acts as a metaphor for one of the defining issues of the period: the problem of the past. Heaney is acutely interested in the way in which female voices have remained silenced and sidelined within...

... youth,” in his poem “Tithonus” ( 583 ). 7 The cailleach is an old woman figure from Irish mythology, often interpreted as a witch or hag. However, the word also has religious elements, and in this way in Ní Chuilleanáin’s poem the cailleach of Beare becomes a nun. Works Cited...

...Magdalena Kay This article analyzes the influence of Polish poet Czesław Miłosz on Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney in reference to two poems — Miłosz's biographical, ethically self-critical “Bypassing Rue Descartes” and Heaney's ethical allegory “From the Republic of Conscience” — which serve...

...: the author is interrupted at his desk by the “ghost of Goethe,” who, it had been rumored, was the father of Puhiwahine’s husband. Following other genealogies—especially those connected to the origins of comparative literature—we might say Goethe’s ghost had already “enter[ed]” this place. In 1886, Irish...

... . 204 – 19 . Print . Gosk Hanna . Opowieści „skolonizowanego/kolonizatora”: w kręgu studiów postzależnościowych nad literaturą polską XX i XXI wieku . Kraków : Universitas , 2010 . Print . Haslam Richard . “Gothic: A Rhetorical Hermeneutics Approach.” The Irish Journal...

... SOLIDARITIES: IRISH NATIONALISM AND CARIBBEAN POETICS. By Michael Malouf. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. 280 p. Published as part of the University of Virginia Press’s ongoing series “New World Stud- ies,” Michael Malouf’s Transatlantic Solidarities: Irish Nationalism...

.... J. MICHAEL DASH New York University DOI 10.1215/00104124-1539244 TRANSATLANTIC SOLIDARITIES: IRISH NATIONALISM AND CARIBBEAN POETICS. By Michael Malouf...

.... J. MICHAEL DASH New York University DOI 10.1215/00104124-1539244 TRANSATLANTIC SOLIDARITIES: IRISH NATIONALISM AND CARIBBEAN POETICS. By Michael Malouf...

... and Commemoration” , Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland , 10–13 April, 2004 . Irish Review , vol. 49 / 50 , 2014/15 , pp. 5 – 18 . Corcoran Neil . The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: A Critical Study . Faber , 1998 . Corcoran Neil . “ Seamus Heaney and the Art of the Exemplary...

... by the Irish revival are slighted in the lethargic language of Finnegans Wake as “cultic twalette” ( FW 344.12). Works Cited Agamben Giorgio . Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life , translated by Heller-Roazen D. Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 1995 . Armstrong...

... Celan’s strong influence on Valente at length elsewhere (Mayhew). Valente’s deep affini- ties with Beckett have yet to be explored in the critical literature, and the cente- nary commemoration of Beckett’s birth in 1906 makes this an appropriate time to devote an article to the Irish writer...

... writers, scholars, and librarians — particularly John Eglinton, George Russell (AE), and Richard Best — all of whom were active supporters of the Irish literary revival about which Stephen has serious reservations. Stephen’s feelings of alienation and displacement become even more acute when he...

... . ____. Das Schloss . Berlin: Schocken Verlag, 1935 . ____. The Trial . Trans. Willa Muir and Edwin Muir. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968 . Mays, James. “Pons Asinorum: Form and Value in Beckett's Writing, with Some Comments on Kafka and de Sade.” Irish University Press—A Journal of Irish Studies 4...

... of poems by Seamus Heaney, W.H. Auden, Jamaican poet Louise Ben- nett, five Irish poets (William Butler Yeats, Louis MacNeice, Heaney again, Paul Muldoon, and Medbh McGuckian), and five American poets (William Carlos Williams, Frank O’Hara, Robert Duncan, Carolyn Forché, and Jorie Graham). Chapter 3...

... in a sanitarium that bears a striking resemblance to a dirty war detention center), and he hears an Irish band, The Hunger, playing a song called “The Reptile Enclo- sure” (76). In this case, however, The Hunger is not an actual band and “The Rep- tile Enclosure” is not an actual song; rather, it is the title...

... in Fontane’s Effie Briest, to exoticized talismanic objects like the Magic Skin in Balzac’s La Peau de chagrin, to the foreigners (Irish and others) who populate Trollope’s novels. In each case, Baker addresses realism and enchantment as both content and form, which are mutually impli- cated...

... enterprise in the metro- pole, through this figure’s uneasy relation with empire. The foreign elements Baker discusses range from the Chinese ghost in Fontane’s Effie Briest, to exoticized talismanic objects like the Magic Skin in Balzac’s La Peau de chagrin, to the foreigners (Irish and others) who...

... enterprise in the metro- pole, through this figure’s uneasy relation with empire. The foreign elements Baker discusses range from the Chinese ghost in Fontane’s Effie Briest, to exoticized talismanic objects like the Magic Skin in Balzac’s La Peau de chagrin, to the foreigners (Irish and others) who...