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Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish Literature

Part of the Language, Discourse, Society Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230275089

ISBN: 978-1-349-31489-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 9, 2015

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Chapter 1A “Habitable Grief”?: The Legacy of Cultural and Political Strife in Ireland’s Contentious Language Systems

Keating-Miller, Jennifer

Pages: 1 –23

[Since the Statutes of Kilkenny in the fourteenth century, language systems in Ireland have been inextricably linked to cultural and political affiliations. Throughout the nineteenth century as nationalism grew worldwide, linguistic and religious association came to manifest itself on national...
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Chapter 2A Republic of One: Individuality, Autonomy and the Question of Irish Collectivity in Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark and Dermot Healy’s A Goat’s Song

Keating-Miller, Jennifer

Pages: 24 –57

[In Celtic Revivals Seamus Deane claims “nothing is more monotonous or despairing than the search for the essence which defines a nation.” It is an exhaustive task that in twentieth-century Ireland has led to violent conflict, bloodshed and the undermining of democratic processes. If energy could...
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Chapter 3Writing Republicanism: A Betrayal of Entrenched Tribalism in Belfast’s Own Vernacular

Keating-Miller, Jennifer

Pages: 58 –99

[Since the complete disbandment of the Provisional IRA in September of 2006, withdrawal of all British military presence in the region in accordance with the Good Friday Peace Agreement and the erection of a power-sharing government in Northern Ireland in May of 2007, the region’s populations now...
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Chapter 4The Misfit Chorus Line: Ireland from the Margins in Patrick McCabe’s Call Me the Breeze

Keating-Miller, Jennifer

Pages: 100 –135

[The resounding acclaim and success Patrick McCabe may have enjoyed with two novels listed as Booker Prize finalists certainly escaped his efforts in Call Me the Breeze. “Beware of a story that comes bearing many type faces,” Lizzy Skurnick warns in “On the Borderline.” “While an aggressive use...
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Chapter 5Casting Cathleen: Femininity and Motherhood on the Contemporary Irish Stage

Keating-Miller, Jennifer

Pages: 136 –175

[On 3 December 1911, Lady Augusta Gregory informed The New York Times Magazine that she did not believe “Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don’t think that was ever the natural means of expression for the Irish. What makes Ireland...

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