Echoes of the rebellion : the year 1798 in twentieth-century Irish fiction and drama
Irish literature Ireland sähkökirjat Irish drama English literature National characteristics, Irish, in literature LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literature Criticism, interpretation, etc History
Peter Lang AG
2015
EISBN 9783035306965
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One: Theoretical Preliminaries: History, Fiction and Ethics; Hayden White's View of History; The Impact on Literary Studies; Boundless Relativism? Critiques of White; 'Interweaving Reference': History and Fiction According to Paul Ricoeur; Paul Ricoeur's Ethics of History; Jacques Derrida and the 'Spectre'; Conclusions; Chapter Two: Squaring the Circle: The 1798 Rebellion in Historiography; R.R. Madden and his Predecessors; The Popular History by Patrick F. Kavanagh; 'Revisionism' and 1798.
Chapter Five: To Retain One's Humanity Among War's Horrors: The Mythical Method of Eoghan Ó Tuairisc's L'AttaqueThe Dual Structure of the Novel; The Metaphors of Geas and Tóraíocht; Cattle and Táin Bó Cuailnge; Heroism and the Bad-Mannered Giant; Hidden Ireland and the United Irishmen; Ideologies, Native and Foreign; The Secret of Máirtín's Life; Chapter Six: 'Bits of Broken Pottery': The Fragmentary Method of Thomas Flanagan's The Year of the French; The Year of the French and 'Revisionism'; Destabilised Narratives; The Year of the French and Metahistory; Metaphors and Images.
Chapter Four: Presbyterians and Hidden Ireland: Literary Reflections of the Rebellion, 1916-2000King Lear and the End of Hidden Ireland: Francis MacManus's Men Withering; Presbyterians and the Irish Language: Séamas Ó Néill's Play Faill ar an bhFeart; The Crumbling of Morality: Sam Hanna Bell's A Man Flourishing; Crossing the Boundary between Life and Death: John McArdle's Short Story 'It's Handy When People Don't Die'; The Exuberant Music of the Piper: Colm Mac Confhaola's Ceol an Phíobaire; Daemonic Violence: Gary Mitchell's Play Tearing the Loom; Summary of Trends.
Chapter Seven: 'The Half-Built, Half-Derelict Cottage': Stewart Parker's Northern StarAllusion as a Structural Device; Northern Star as a Metadramatic Play; The 1798 Rebellion as Both Inspiration and Warning; Ideals and Symbols; Ghosts and the Future; Conclusions: Interpretations of 1798 in Twentieth-Century Fiction and Drama; Historiography vs. Literature: Interpretation on the Level of Content; Interpretation on the Formal Level; Bibliography; Index.
Reclaiming the United Irishmen: The Post-Revisionist InterpretationMemoir, Polemic, Metahistory and History Combined: The Case of Tom Dunne; Outside the Circle? Oral Sources and the History of 1798; Chapter Three: A Long Tradition of 1798 Novels and Plays: Literary Reflections of the Rebellion, 1900-1916; A Plea for Inclusive National Identity: George A. Birmingham's The Northern Iron; Northern Irish Gothic: Andrew James's The Nabob; An Ambiguous Novel: William Buckley's Croppies Lie Down; The Ghost and the Vampire: W.B. Yeats's and Lady Gregory's Cathleen Ni Houlihan.
The 1798 Rebellion, a watershed event in Irish history, has been a source of both inspiration and controversy over the last two centuries and continues to provoke debate up to the present day. The ongoing discussion about the meaning of the Rebellion has not been limited to history books, but has also found vivid expression in Irish fiction and theatre. The product of extensive research, this study provides a comprehensive survey of historical novels and plays published on the topic throughout the twentieth century, comparing them with relevant historiography. It draws attention to a number of.
Chapter Five: To Retain One's Humanity Among War's Horrors: The Mythical Method of Eoghan Ó Tuairisc's L'AttaqueThe Dual Structure of the Novel; The Metaphors of Geas and Tóraíocht; Cattle and Táin Bó Cuailnge; Heroism and the Bad-Mannered Giant; Hidden Ireland and the United Irishmen; Ideologies, Native and Foreign; The Secret of Máirtín's Life; Chapter Six: 'Bits of Broken Pottery': The Fragmentary Method of Thomas Flanagan's The Year of the French; The Year of the French and 'Revisionism'; Destabilised Narratives; The Year of the French and Metahistory; Metaphors and Images.
Chapter Four: Presbyterians and Hidden Ireland: Literary Reflections of the Rebellion, 1916-2000King Lear and the End of Hidden Ireland: Francis MacManus's Men Withering; Presbyterians and the Irish Language: Séamas Ó Néill's Play Faill ar an bhFeart; The Crumbling of Morality: Sam Hanna Bell's A Man Flourishing; Crossing the Boundary between Life and Death: John McArdle's Short Story 'It's Handy When People Don't Die'; The Exuberant Music of the Piper: Colm Mac Confhaola's Ceol an Phíobaire; Daemonic Violence: Gary Mitchell's Play Tearing the Loom; Summary of Trends.
Chapter Seven: 'The Half-Built, Half-Derelict Cottage': Stewart Parker's Northern StarAllusion as a Structural Device; Northern Star as a Metadramatic Play; The 1798 Rebellion as Both Inspiration and Warning; Ideals and Symbols; Ghosts and the Future; Conclusions: Interpretations of 1798 in Twentieth-Century Fiction and Drama; Historiography vs. Literature: Interpretation on the Level of Content; Interpretation on the Formal Level; Bibliography; Index.
Reclaiming the United Irishmen: The Post-Revisionist InterpretationMemoir, Polemic, Metahistory and History Combined: The Case of Tom Dunne; Outside the Circle? Oral Sources and the History of 1798; Chapter Three: A Long Tradition of 1798 Novels and Plays: Literary Reflections of the Rebellion, 1900-1916; A Plea for Inclusive National Identity: George A. Birmingham's The Northern Iron; Northern Irish Gothic: Andrew James's The Nabob; An Ambiguous Novel: William Buckley's Croppies Lie Down; The Ghost and the Vampire: W.B. Yeats's and Lady Gregory's Cathleen Ni Houlihan.
The 1798 Rebellion, a watershed event in Irish history, has been a source of both inspiration and controversy over the last two centuries and continues to provoke debate up to the present day. The ongoing discussion about the meaning of the Rebellion has not been limited to history books, but has also found vivid expression in Irish fiction and theatre. The product of extensive research, this study provides a comprehensive survey of historical novels and plays published on the topic throughout the twentieth century, comparing them with relevant historiography. It draws attention to a number of.
