Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry

This kind of representation of Celticism is also apparent in racist colonial discourse as in Edmund Spenser’s A View of the Pres ...

In addition, nationalist disengagement from the colonial is in danger of reiterating colonial structures of oppression as Irish ...

the coal man’ – ‘sorry mammy passed away in her sleep’– ‘and other people [who] don’t’.^16 In view of the fracturing apparent in ...

formation.^19 For Smyth, this involves thinking otherwise or towards ‘the other’, transgressing ideological boundaries that upho ...

of negotiation where decisions will inevitably be made that exclude certain personalities. Kiberd’s conclusion to Inventing Irel ...

These borderline negotiations of cultural difference often violate liberalismís deep commitment to representing cultural diversi ...

“routes”’.^28 The postmodern theorist, Thomas Docherty, touches on the relation between Irish poetry and rhizomatics in his inve ...

morphic, when they live in packs like rats. Burrows are rhizomorphic in all their functions: as habitat, means of provision, mov ...

they advise: ëA rhizome-book, [is] no longer dichotomous, tap-rooting or fasciculated. Never put down roots, nor plant even thou ...

1 Seamus Heaney: Between Past and Future he was revolted by the thought of known places and dreamed strange migrations^1 Seamus ...

The Quaking Sod David Lloyd asserts in his essay ëPap for the Dispossessedí (1993) that Heaney ëseeks to give an Irish bend to c ...

intervention so that they are denied firm ground of their own from which to make a footing, stake their claim or identify themse ...

Reterritorialization and the Revival In The Rough Field (1972) John Montague evocatively views the North of Ireland according to ...

nationality, no great nationality without literature.í^9 Heaney writes that in the West of the country, at Ballylee, there is th ...

dedicates his life to the revivification of Ireland.^13 Yeatsís poem rehearses the connections between nationality and popular m ...

another bloody and disabling myth. On the one hand, ëEaster 1916í expresses a profound anxiety over how national representation ...

does not pull back but presses forward, and it is, contrary to what one would expect, the future which drives us back into the p ...

When representing a nation, there is profound ambivalence over whether the image corresponds with or overwhelms the national ide ...

through fuller self-possession, and accordingly rehearses the compensations conducted by Irish Romantic nationalismí.^21 However ...

stable element, the land itself, that we must look for continuityí.^23 Heaney views the land as a stable and historical element ...