Classics and Irish Politics :
1916-2016 /
edited by Isabelle Torrance and Donncha O`Rourke.
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| Summary: | This collection addresses how models from ancient Greece and Rome have permeated Irish political discourse in the century since 1916. The 1916 Easter Rising, when Irish nationalists rose up against British imperial forces, became almost instantly mythologized in Irish political memory as a turning point in the nation's history that paved the way for Irish independence. Its centenary has provided a natural point for reflection on Irish politics, and this volume highlights an unexplored element in Irish political discourse, namely its frequent reliance on, reference to, and tensions with classical Greek and Roman models. Topics covered include the reception and rejection of classical culture in Ireland; the politics of Irish language engagement with Greek and Roman models; the intersection of Irish literature with scholarship in Classics and Celtic Studies; the use of classical referents to articulate political inequalities across gender, sexual, and class hierarchies; meditations on the Northern Irish conflict through classical literature; and the political implications of neoclassical material culture in Irish society. As the only country colonized by Britain with a pre-existing indigenous heritage of expertise in classical languages and literature, postcolonial Ireland represents a unique case in the field of classical reception. 0This book opens a window on a rich and varied dialogue between significant figures in Irish cultural history and the Greek and Roman sources that have inspired them, a dialogue that is firmly rooted in Ireland's historical past and continues to be ever-evolving. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Classical presences.
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Physical description: xviii, 472 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 0198864485 9780198864486 |
Table of Contents:
1. Classics and Irish Politics: Introduction / Isabelle Torrance and Donncha O'Rourke ; I: RECEPTION AND REJECTION OF THE CLASSICS IN IRELAND 2. The Use and Abuse of Classics: Thoughts on Empire, Epic, and Language / Declan Kiberd ; 3. Greece, Rome, and the Revolutionaries of 1916 / Brian McGing ; 4. Classics in the Van of the Irish Revolt: Thomas MacDonagh, 'alien to Athens and Rome?' / Eoghan Moloney ; II: LANGUAGE POLITICS 5. Translating into Irish from Greek and Latin in the Early Years of the Irish State / Síle Ní Mhurchú ; 6. Classics through Irish at University College, Galway, 1931-78 / Pádraic Moran ; 7. Dinneen's Irish Virgil / Fiachra Mac Góráin ; 8. Classics, Medievalism, and Cultural Politics in Myles na gCopaleen's Cruiskeen Lawn Columns / Cillian O'Hogan ; III: BETWEEN SCHOLARSHIP AND LITERATURE 9. Abjection and the Irish-Greek Fir Bolg in Aran Island Writing / Arabella Currie ; 10. Sinn Féin and Ulysses: Between Professor Robert Mitchell Henry and James Joyce / Edith Hall ; 11. Yeats and Oedipus: The Dark Road / Chris Morash ; IV: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND CLASS 12. Wilde, Classicism, and Homosexuality in Modern Ireland / Eibhear Walshe ; 13. Trojan Women and Irish Sexual Politics, 1920-2015 / Isabelle Torrance ; 14. Irish Didos: Empire, Gender, and Class in the Irish Popular Tradition to Frank McGuinness's Carthaginians / Siobhán McElduff ; V: CLASSICAL POETRY AND NORTHERN IRELAND 15. Elegies for Ireland: W. B. Yeats, Michael Longley, and the Roman Elegists / Donncha O'Rourke ; 16. Michael Longley's 'Ceasefire' and the Iliad / Maureen Alden ; 17. Post-Ceasefire Antigones and Northern Ireland / Isabelle Torrance ; VI: MATERIAL CULTURE AND (DE)COLONIALISM 18. Classicism in the Making of Commemorative Monuments in Newly Independent Ireland / Judith Hill ; 19. The Politics of Neoclassicism in Belfast and Dublin: A Tale of Two Buildings / Suzanne O'Neill 20 ;. The Classical Themes of Irish Coinage, 1928-2002: Images from a Usable Past / Christine Morris ; 21. Epilogue / Richard P. Martin.
1. Classics and Irish Politics: Introduction / Isabelle Torrance and Donncha O'Rourke ; I: RECEPTION AND REJECTION OF THE CLASSICS IN IRELAND 2. The Use and Abuse of Classics: Thoughts on Empire, Epic, and Language / Declan Kiberd ; 3. Greece, Rome, and the Revolutionaries of 1916 / Brian McGing ; 4. Classics in the Van of the Irish Revolt: Thomas MacDonagh, 'alien to Athens and Rome?' / Eoghan Moloney ; II: LANGUAGE POLITICS 5. Translating into Irish from Greek and Latin in the Early Years of the Irish State / Síle Ní Mhurchú ; 6. Classics through Irish at University College, Galway, 1931-78 / Pádraic Moran ; 7. Dinneen's Irish Virgil / Fiachra Mac Góráin ; 8. Classics, Medievalism, and Cultural Politics in Myles na gCopaleen's Cruiskeen Lawn Columns / Cillian O'Hogan ; III: BETWEEN SCHOLARSHIP AND LITERATURE 9. Abjection and the Irish-Greek Fir Bolg in Aran Island Writing / Arabella Currie ; 10. Sinn Féin and Ulysses: Between Professor Robert Mitchell Henry and James Joyce / Edith Hall ; 11. Yeats and Oedipus: The Dark Road / Chris Morash ; IV: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND CLASS 12. Wilde, Classicism, and Homosexuality in Modern Ireland / Eibhear Walshe ; 13. Trojan Women and Irish Sexual Politics, 1920-2015 / Isabelle Torrance ; 14. Irish Didos: Empire, Gender, and Class in the Irish Popular Tradition to Frank McGuinness's Carthaginians / Siobhán McElduff ; V: CLASSICAL POETRY AND NORTHERN IRELAND 15. Elegies for Ireland: W. B. Yeats, Michael Longley, and the Roman Elegists / Donncha O'Rourke ; 16. Michael Longley's 'Ceasefire' and the Iliad / Maureen Alden ; 17. Post-Ceasefire Antigones and Northern Ireland / Isabelle Torrance ; VI: MATERIAL CULTURE AND (DE)COLONIALISM 18. Classicism in the Making of Commemorative Monuments in Newly Independent Ireland / Judith Hill ; 19. The Politics of Neoclassicism in Belfast and Dublin: A Tale of Two Buildings / Suzanne O'Neill 20 ;. The Classical Themes of Irish Coinage, 1928-2002: Images from a Usable Past / Christine Morris ; 21. Epilogue / Richard P. Martin.