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Post-revisionism: Conflict (Ir)resolution and the Limits of Ambivalence in Kevin McCarthy’s Peeler

McAteer, Michael

2018 Text Matters

doi:10.1515/texmat-2018-0001

AbstractThis essay considers a historical novel of recent times in revisionist terms, Kevin McCarthy’s debut novel of 2010, Peeler. In doing so, I also address the limitations that the novel exposes within Irish revisionism. I propose that McCarthy’s novel should be regarded more properly as a...

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”No Country for Old Men”? The Question of George Moore’s Place in the Early Twentieth-Century Literature of Ireland

Jarząb-Napierała, Joanna

2018 Text Matters

doi:10.1515/texmat-2018-0002

AbstractThe paper scrutinizes the literary output of George Moore with reference to the expectations of the new generation of Irish writers emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century. Although George Moore is considered to belong to the Anglo-Irish ascendancy writers, he began his writing...

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Recessive Action in Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn

Raghinaru, Camelia

2018 Text Matters

doi:10.1515/texmat-2018-0003

AbstractColm Tóibín’s 2009 novel Brooklyn accompanies Eilis Lacey, a native of Enniscorthy, Ireland of the 1950s on a reluctant voyage across the Atlantic. Her passage reconstructs a common experience of immigration and exile to New York for the Irish working class seeking to escape the lack of...

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Masculinities, History and Cultural Space: Queer Emancipative Thought in Jamie O’Neill’s at Swim, Two Boys

Milewski, Jarosław

2018 Text Matters

doi:10.1515/texmat-2018-0004

AbstractAt Swim, Two Boys, a 2001 novel by Jamie O’Neill, tells a story of gay teen romance in the wake of the Easter Rising. This paper considers the ways in which the characters engage in patterns of masculine behaviour in a context that excludes queer men, and the rhetorical effect of...

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Michael Longley and Birds

Michalski, Przemysław

2018 Text Matters

doi:10.1515/texmat-2018-0005

AbstractThe following essay attempts to shed some light on Michael Longley’s poems about birds, which form a fairly complicated network of mutual enhancements and cross-references. Some of them are purely descriptive lyrics. Such poems are likely to have the name of a given species or a specific...

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”Soldier Dolls, Little Adulteresses, Poor Scapegoats, Betraying Sisters and Perfect Meat”: The Gender of the Early Phase of the Troubles and the Politics of Punishments against Women in Contemporary Irish Poetry

Ostalska, Katarzyna

2018 Text Matters

doi:10.1515/texmat-2018-0006

AbstractThis paper examines the literary representation of the beginnings of the Northern Irish Troubles with regard to a gender variable (women’s roles and functions ascribed to them, mostly punitively, by men), in the selected poems by Heaney, Durcan, Boland, Meehan and Morrissey. The reading...

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Death of the Soldier and Immortality of War in Frank Ormsby’s A Northern Spring

Marzec, Karolina

2018 Text Matters

doi:10.1515/texmat-2018-0007

AbstractThe paper analyzes the collection of the Northern Irish poet Frank Ormsby entitled A Northern Spring published in 1986. On the basis of selected poems, the author of this paper aims to examine the poet’s reflections about World War II, the lives of the soldiers, and the things that remain...

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Blindness in the Beckettland of Malfunctioning

Uchman, Jadwiga

2018 Text Matters

doi:10.1515/texmat-2018-0008

AbstractMany of Beckett characters suffer from different kinds of disabilities and impairments, this being one of the ways of punishing them for “the eternal sin of having been born.” The article discusses blindness in Waiting for Godot, Endgame and All That Fall. In the first of these plays...

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Defying Maintenance Mimesis: The Case of Somewhere over the Balcony by Charabanc Theatre Company

Ojrzyńska, Katarzyna

2018 Text Matters

doi:10.1515/texmat-2018-0009

AbstractMaking reference to Luce Irigaray’s definitions of mimesis and mimicry, and the ways in which these concepts respectively reinforce and challenge the phallogocentric order, this article investigates the representation of the Troubles in the play Somewhere over the Balcony by Charabanc—a...

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”The Heart of this People is in its right place”: The American Press and Private Charity in the United States during the Irish Famine

Hamera, Paweł

2018 Text Matters

doi:10.1515/texmat-2018-0010

AbstractThe potato blight that struck Ireland in 1845 led to ineffable suffering that sent shockwaves throughout the Anglosphere. The Irish Famine is deemed to be the first national calamity to attract extensive help and support from all around the world. Even though the Irish did not receive...

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