Browsing by Author "O'Brien, Eugene"
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“The door” stands open: liminal spaces in the later Heaney (Pre-print version)
O'Brien, Eugene (University of Notre Dame Press, 2016) -
The Epistemology of Nationalism
O'Brien, Eugene (Taylor & Francis [Routledge], 1997)This article poses a number of questions: Is nationalism an ideology, a philosophy, an epistemology or a faith? Is cultural nationalism a seminal constituent of nationalism in general, or is it just a subset of political ... -
Examining Irish Nationalism in the context of Literature, Culture and Religion. A Study of the Epistemological Structure of Nationalism
O'Brien, Eugene (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002) -
The Force of Law in Seamus Heaney's Greek Translations
O'Brien, Eugene (Careysfort Press, 2008)This essay examines the use of law in Heaney’s Greek translations: The Burial at Thebes, and The Cure at Troy. For Derrida,, the founding moment of law, in a society or culture, is never a moment ‘inscribed’ in the history ... -
From prosperity to austerity: a socio-cultural critique of the Celtic Tiger and its aftermath (Pre-published version)
O'Brien, Eugene; Maher, Eamon (Manchester University Press, 2014) -
‘The golden calf’: Irish crime and the deconstruction of Irish society (Pre-print version)
O'Brien, Eugene (Peter Lang, 2015) -
Guests (Geists) of a Nation: A Heimlich (Unheimlich) Maneuver
O'Brien, Eugene (New Hibernia Review, 2007)This chapter examines Frank O’Connor’s story ‘Guests of a Nation’, and looks at how guests often become ghosts in Irish history. The essay then looks at the ghosts of Irish republican ideology, Pearse and Tone, and goes ... -
Guests of a nation; geists of a nation
O'Brien, Eugene (Center for Irish Studies (University of St. Thomas), 2007) -
The Humanities of Tomorrow: Negotiation Globalisation and Secularisation, Issues of Globalisation and Secularisation in France and Ireland
O'Brien, Eugene (Peter Lang, 2009) -
"Identities in the writer complexus": Joyce, Europe and Irish identities (Pre-published version)
O'Brien, Eugene (Rodopi Press, 2003)This chapter examines forms of negative identity in terms of two intersecting verbal axes: Joyce‟s own term, gnomon and Jacques Derrida‟s term hauntology. Both terms gesture towards forms of negative identity which are the ... -
Intellectual Imposters?- We Should be so Lucky!:Towards an Irish Public Sphere
O'Brien, Eugene (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009)Looking back on the challenge posed to critical theory by the publication in 1999 of Sokal and Bricmont’s book, Intellectual Impostures, this essay argues that the latter was at least evidence of the ongoing vitality of ... -
Introduction: "The soul exceeds its circumstances": the later poetry of Seamus Heaney (Pre-published version)
O'Brien, Eugene (University of Notre Dame Press, 2016) -
Introduction: From prosperity to austerity: a socio-cultural critique of the Celtic Tiger and its aftermath (Pre-published version)
O'Brien, Eugene; Maher, Eamon (Manchester University Press, 2014) -
Introduction: Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism: from Galway to Cloyne and beyond (Pre-published version)
O'Brien, Eugene; Maher, Eamon (Manchester University Press, 2017) -
Introduction: War of the words: literary rebellion in France and Ireland (Pre-print version)
O'Brien, Eugene; Maher, Eamon (TIR (Université Rennes 2), 2012) -
Ireland in Theory: the Influence of French Theory on Irish Cultural and Societal Development
O'Brien, Eugene (Peter Lang, 2004)This essay argues that the advent of French literary and cultural theory, specifically the work of Barthes, Foucault, Derrida and Lacan, has been responsible for some of the accelerated social changes that Ireland has ... -
Ireland, Modernity and the Question of Definition
O'Brien, Eugene (The Journal of Music in Ireland, 2003)This essay is an exploration of the notion of modernity, and its relationship with tradition. It is a response to John Waters’ article on modernity entitles ‘Reactionary Progressives’. I will respond to the article in ... -
Issues of globalisation and secularisation in France and Ireland (Pre-published version)
O'Brien, Eugene; Bévant, Yann; Maher, Eamon; Neville, Grace (Peter Lang, 2009) -
Jacques Lacan (Pre-published version)
O'Brien, Eugene (Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory, 2017)Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was born on April 13, 1901 and died on September 9 1981. He was a French psychoanalyst and philosopher and was a very controversial figure on the French psychoanalytic scene. He was a polymathic ... -
'Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse...': Catholicism, deconstruction and postmodernity in contemporary Irish culture (Pre-published version)
O'Brien, Eugene (Columba Press, 2006)This chapter will examine the changing role of the Catholic Church as structure in contemporary Ireland, seeing this altered role as part of a larger process of societal change across the western world. Indeed, what is ...