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Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish LiteratureA 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

Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish Literature: A Republic of One:... [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 be refocused to create or mould a multifarious national identity as individuals reach outward and forward rather than delving inward to the depths of a mythical past, Irish citizenry may garner the power to define a nation through multifarious cultural innovation and change rather than through a stagnant, enigmatic essence that has been the bane of twentieth-century nationalism. Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark and Dermot Healy’s A Goat’s Song attend to two distinct periods of twentieth-century Irish history, particularly marked by Irish nationalist agendas: post-partition Derry from the late nineteen-forties to the opening of ‘The Troubles’ in 1968 and the period of ‘The Troubles’ from the late nineteen-sixties to the nineteen-eighties in Belfast, Dublin and the West Coast of the Republic. These texts, whose central plots address the politically polarizing effects of a continued British presence in Ireland and the violent legacies of the IRA in two periods of paramilitary activity, represent some of the political and cultural effects of Irish efforts to define a nation.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish LiteratureA 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

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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
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978-1-349-31489-8
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24 –57
DOI
10.1057/9780230275089_2
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[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 be refocused to create or mould a multifarious national identity as individuals reach outward and forward rather than delving inward to the depths of a mythical past, Irish citizenry may garner the power to define a nation through multifarious cultural innovation and change rather than through a stagnant, enigmatic essence that has been the bane of twentieth-century nationalism. Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark and Dermot Healy’s A Goat’s Song attend to two distinct periods of twentieth-century Irish history, particularly marked by Irish nationalist agendas: post-partition Derry from the late nineteen-forties to the opening of ‘The Troubles’ in 1968 and the period of ‘The Troubles’ from the late nineteen-sixties to the nineteen-eighties in Belfast, Dublin and the West Coast of the Republic. These texts, whose central plots address the politically polarizing effects of a continued British presence in Ireland and the violent legacies of the IRA in two periods of paramilitary activity, represent some of the political and cultural effects of Irish efforts to define a nation.]

Published: Oct 9, 2015

Keywords: Identity Formation; Language System; Speech Pattern; Young Sister; National Narrative

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