Browsing by Author "O'Brien, Eugene"
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Alternate Irelands: emigration and the epistemology of Irish identity (Pre-published version)
O'Brien, Eugene (Jouvert, 2000)This essay begins by deconstructing the logo of the Centre for Migration studies as a way of outlining a differential perspective on Irish identity. Eschewing the traditional view of identity as sameness, this article ... -
Anastomosis, attenuations and Manichean allegories: Seamus Heaney and the complexities of Ireland (Pre-published version)
O'Brien, Eugene (JCPCS [Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies], 2001)This essay discusses the nature of postcolonial versions of Irishness and deconstructs the Manichean categories of selfhood and alterity which feature in both colonial and postcolonial discourse. Using some ideas from ... -
The anxiety of influence: Heaney and Yeats and the place of writing (Pre-published version)
O'Brien, Eugene (Nordic Journal of Irish Studies, 2004)This essay compares and contrasts the writing of William Butler Yeats and Seamus Heaney in terms of their respective enunciations of place. Both writers have a pluralist and emancipatory sense of place, and real places and ... -
"Any Catholics among you...?”: Seamus Heaney and the real of Catholicism (Pre-published version)
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“An art that knows its mind”: prayer, poetry and post-Catholic identity in Seamus Heaney’s “Squarings”
O'Brien, Eugene (Universitaires du Septentrion, 2014)Seamus Heaney’s “Squarings” sequence from his 1991 collection Seeing Things speaks of the “virtue of an art that knows its mind”. This sequence attempts to know the mind in both its immanent and transcendent aspects, through ... -
At the Frontier of Language: Literature, Theory, Politics
O'Brien, Eugene (Minerva, 1996)This essay examines the problematics of language and identity. Beginning with a deconstructive reading of Seamus Heaney’s poem ‘Broagh’, it moves on to deconstruct the signifier of Ulster, showing how the use of this term, ... -
'Because she was a girl': Gender identity and the postcolonial in James Joyce's 'Eveline'
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‘Belief shifts’: Ireland’s referendum and the journey from gemeinschaft to gesellschaft (Pre-print version)
O'Brien, Eugene (Manchester University Press, 2017-03)I would begin this chapter with two pieces of narrative: one from fantasy literature and one from recent political discourse. The fantasy writer Terry Pratchett wrote a book in his Discworld series about religion, gods and ... -
Bloomsday and Arthur’s Day – secular sacraments as symbolic and cultural capital (Pre-published version)
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'The Boat has Moved': The Catholic Church, Conflations and the Need for Critique
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The Body as Ethical Synecdoche in the Writing of Seamus Heaney
O'Brien, Eugene (Irish Academic Press, 2006)This essay examines the imaginative use of images of the violently abused body in the writing of Seamus Heaney. Looking at The Cure at Troy and The Burial at Thebes, this essay also looks at real bodies – victims of the ... -
The Body Politic: The Ethics of Responsibility and the Responsibility of Ethics
O'Brien, Eugene (Oxford University Press, 2008)This chapter examines Heaney’s translations of Antigone in terms of its being a vehicle for an ethical interrogation of the laws and loyalties and of the contrast between the loyalty to one’s tribe and a broader intersubjective ... -
‘Both more than a language and no more of a language’: Michael Hartnett and the Politics of Translation.
O'Brien, Eugene (Four Courts Press, 2003)This essay looks at the politics of translation through a specific focus on the poetry, in Irish and in English, of Michael Hartnett. It suggests a politics of translation that is emancipatory and creative, and deconstructs ... -
Breaking the mould: literary representations of Irish Catholicism (Pre-published version)
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‘Can excrement be art … if not, why not’?: Joyce’s aesthetic theory and the flux of consciousness (Pre-print version)
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Connecting Bits and Pieces- Seamus Heaney: Electric Light
O'Brien, Eugene (Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing, 2002)This review essay examines the recurrence of different themes in Seamus Heaney’s Collection Electric Light. It retraces influence of T.S. Eliot in the book and also the ongoing preoccupation with classical references. The ... -
Crediting the Poet: What Seamus Heaney Means to Me”
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Decommissioning the Canon: Towards a Deconstruction of the Givens of the Literary Canon
O'Brien, Eugene (Teaching Social Justice: Intercultural and Development Education Perspectives on Education’s Context, Content, 2003)This essay examines the differences between high and popular culture, looking at Joyce and Heaney as synecdoches of cannon-creation and a resultant decommissioning of that canon. This is done through a deconstructive ... -
Derrida, Heaney, Yeats and the Hauntological Redefinition of Irishness
O'Brien, Eugene (Veritas, 2003)This essay begins by deconstructing the logo of the Centre for Migration studies as a way of outlining a differential perspective on Irish identity. Eschewing the traditional view of identity as sameness, this article ... -
‘“Desidero ergo sum (I desire therefore I am)”: Towards a Psychoanalytic Reading of the Advertising of Perfume’, 2016, in Irish Communications Review,
O'Brien, Eugene (Irish Communications Review, 2016)