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‘God Bless the Child’: Unearthing the Dissident Potential of the Jazz Aesthetic in Patrick Kavanagh’s The Great Hunger (2017)

Fogarty, Matthew

‘God Bless the Child’: Unearthing the Dissident Potential of the Jazz Aesthetic in Patrick Kavanagh’s The Great Hunger (2017)

Fogarty, Matthew

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In an attempt to adequately convey the stagnant depths to which the Irish Free State had sunk during the decades of its infancy, John Goodby points to the cultural chasm into which Patrick Kavanagh’s ‘masterpiece “The Great Hunger” fell “stillborn” from the press in 1942 when its author was cautioned by the Garda Siochána about his poem’s “immorality”’(2000, p.15). Of course, this episode at once exemplifies the extent to which the heavy hand of the Irish Catholic Church routinely exercised its influence over the legislative and punitive forces of the still-burgeoning Irish State. And if the ultra-conservative values espoused by the establishment of post-partition Ireland echoed those of the National Socialists in Germany any one particular issue throughout the 1930s, it was most assuredly in their outright condemnation of the jazz aesthetic. This paper will set Kavanagh’s work against this socio-historical backdrop, which actually bore witness to the rise of a state-sponsored an...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/8294/

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‘I have given myself up to the study of the State’: Wyndham Lewis, Modernism, the Avant-garde, and the State (2017)

Lomax, Francis

‘I have given myself up to the study of the State’: Wyndham Lewis, Modernism, the Avant-garde, and the State (2017)

Lomax, Francis

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In his introduction to the recent Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis, Tyrus Miller describes the modernist painter, novelist, and critic Wyndham Lewis (1882 - 1957) as an embodiment of ‘the boundary crossing nature of the avant - garde’ (2016, p. 6). In Miller’s account, the avant - garde of the early twentieth century ‘tore apar t the conventional boundaries between the various arts, between artistic and political activity, and between aesthetic works and conceptual discourse’ (2016 p. 6). The historical avant - garde — by which is meant the various groupings of artists of experimenta l artists and writers which emerged across Europe in the years prior to the First World War — can be broadly characterised by its vehement opposition to bourgeois society, and its conception of the potential of experimental art and literature to act as a cat alyst for radical social change.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/8299/

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‘The Ireland that We Dreamed of’: Rejecting Convention in John McGahern’s The Dark (2017)

Singleton, John

‘The Ireland that We Dreamed of’: Rejecting Convention in John McGahern’s The Dark (2017)

Singleton, John

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John McGahern’s second novel The Dark , banned upon publication in 1965, is remembered for shining a light on the darkest aspects of Irish Life: a confessional society that masked institutionalised physical, mental and sexual abuse, the full ex tent of which would be exposed in the Ryan Report (2009). Focusing on the depiction of individual moments of violence, however, encourages us to view the protagonist as a powerless victim and to disregard the novel’s central triumph: the rejection of socia l expectation and the realisation of a ‘real authority’, independent of family, faith and fatherland.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/8301/

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A Grain of Justice, a Grain of Truth: An Analysis of Obscurity in an Early Medieval Irish Text (2017)

Guidera O'Rourke, Deborah

A Grain of Justice, a Grain of Truth: An Analysis of Obscurity in an Early Medieval Irish Text (2017)

Guidera O'Rourke, Deborah

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Immacallam in Dá Thuarad or The Colloquy of the Two Sages is a ninth - century text preserved in whole or part in eleven manuscripts dating between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries (Carey, 2014, p. 630), in which two poets Néde and Ferchertne engage in a verbal sparring contest which is often obscure, in an attempt to define their iden tity and status and exact the claim of head poet. This paper focuses on §236, Neglect of Crops; i.e., without cultivating them, or without their growing although they are cultivated; or [neglect] of judgements, and §237, Perjuries (2014, p. 637), from John Carey’s edition of the eschatological section of Ferchertne’s speech. It seeks to demonstrate how these phrases illustrate the complexity of the learning of the medieval Irish poet who delivers an eschatological vision of last days, informed by metaphoric and allegorical references which were employed by a ‘small intellectual el...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/8296/

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Joking with the Critically Serious : Medbh McGuckian's Comic Oeuvre (2000)

Sullivan, Moynagh

Joking with the Critically Serious : Medbh McGuckian's Comic Oeuvre (2000)

Sullivan, Moynagh

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http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/5541/

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When Computer Science Met Austen and Edgeworth (2017)

Kerr, Sara J.

When Computer Science Met Austen and Edgeworth (2017)

Kerr, Sara J.

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Jesse Rosenthal states in the introduction to the 2017 special issue of Genre : ‘data is a big deal right now. We cannot talk about data and the novel without recognizing the particular importance that the question of data has in literary studies’ (2017, p. 4). This paper is positioned at the intersection of Literary Studies and Computer Science. It explores the appli cation of computer based analysis to novels from the long eighteenth century (an historical period between approximately 1640 to 1830) and, specifically, examines the insights that are gained by using these tools to compare novels by Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth. It also considers the challenges these methods may present for Humanities scholars, and the benefits of combining computational approaches with close reading. The title of this paper comes from the film ‘When Harry Met Sally...’ (1989). The li ne at the heart of the film proposes that ‘men and wom...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/8298/

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