Browsing by Author "O'Brien, Eugene"
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La France face a la mondialisation/ France and the struggle against globalization (Pre-published version)
O'Brien, Eugene; Maher, Eamon (Edwin Mellen Press, 2007) -
The Language of Empire and the Empire of Language: Joyce and the Return of the Postcolonial Repressed
O'Brien, Eugene (Four Courts Press, 2007)This chapter examines the importance of language in the imperial project and the importance of language as a deconstruction of that project. It looks specifically at the language of James Joyce and argues that his work ... -
A law unto himself; Derrida and the force of justice (Pre-published version)
O'Brien, Eugene (Universsitätsverlag, 2007)This chapter examines Derrida’s distinction between law and justice, looking at the heritage of Pascal and Montaigne and examining issues of ethical and political responsibility in the process, taking some examples from ... -
Learning to thole: the unconscious connections between Ireland and Scotland in the thought of Seamus Heaney (Pre-published version)
O'Brien, Eugene (Cambridge Scholars’ Press, 2013) -
Messianism or Messianicity?: Remembering Revolution and the Shaping of Irish Nationalism
O'Brien, Eugene (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011) -
Mobile technology and the actuvirtuali artifactual subject
O'Brien, Eugene (Peter Lang, 2012) -
Modernity and postmodernity in a Franco-Irish context (Pre-published version)
O'Brien, Eugene; Maher, Eamon; Neville, Grace (Peter Lang, 2008) -
More than a language … no more of a Language’: Merriman, Heaney and the Metamorphoses of Translation
O'Brien, Eugene (Irish University Review, 2005)This essay examines transformative force of translation, by reading Merriman through the refractive lens of Seamus Heaney’s The Midnight Verdict, the juxtaposition of Merriman’s text with that of classical tragedy, itself ... -
A Nation Once Again Towards an Epistemology of the Republican Imaginaire
O'Brien, Eugene (University College Dublin Press, 2003)The epistemological structure of Irish republican ideology is examined through the theoretical perspective of Jacques Lacan. This paper extrapolates this position into a societal and group matrix. The Lacanian imaginary ... -
Negotiating the self – the spectral mobile subject (Pre-published version)
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North: The Politics of Plurality
O'Brien, Eugene (Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing, 1999)This essay will offer a theoretical reading both of North, and its critics; it will also analyse the criticisms of North in terms of its speaking with the voice of the tribe. I hope to demonstrate that, in fact, what is ... -
The Place of Writing: Place, Poetry, Politics in the Writing of Seamus Heaney
O'Brien, Eugene (Hermathena,Trinity College Dublin, 1998)This chapter examines Heaney’s use of classical imagery as a literary device through which he can address issues of political and cultural identity in Northern Ireland. It looks at heaney’s prose, early poetry and some ... -
The python and the gazelle – revolt, revolution and the rebels: the Cork hurling saga as paradigmatic of the epistemology of revolution (Pre-published version)
O'Brien, Eugene (TIR [Université Rennes 2], 2012) -
The Question of Irish Identity in the Writings of W. B. Yeats and James Joyce
O'Brien, Eugene (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998) -
‘Re-membering the Rising: A Theoretical Reading of the Politics of Memory’
O'Brien, Eugene (2016) -
Recharging the Canon: Towards a Literary Redefinition of Irishness
O'Brien, Eugene (Edwin Mellen Press, 2005)By adding volumes four and five as a supplement to its anthology, Field Day was both acknowledging its own attenuation of a tradition, and at the same time, valuing at another dimension, the very plurality of traditions ... -
Reflections on (of) nationalism
O'Brien, Eugene (Kairos, 1998)This project attempts to define the epistemological structure of nationalism and to suggest a theoretical model through which this can be done. I would argue that this theorization will apply to nationalism per se; however, ... -
Reflections, Misrecognitions, Messianisms and Identifications: Towards an Epistemology of Irish Nationalism
O'Brien, Eugene (ABEI Journal: Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, 2001)This essay examines the narrative source of Irish Republican ideology. By contrasting the nationalism and republicanism of the United Irishmen and the IRB of 1916, the contradictions and misrecognitions inherent in ... -
Reinventing Ireland through a French prism (Pre-published version)
O'Brien, Eugene; Maher, Eamon; Neville, Grace (Peter Lang, 2007) -
Seamus Heaney and the Ethics of Translation
O'Brien, Eugene (Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2003)This essay deals with two of Heaney’s major translations, Sweeney Astray and The Cure at Troy, are connected in terms of their ability to enunciate the voice of the other as well as to convey increasingly more complex ...