Department of English Language and Literature: Recent submissions

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    • 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 ...

    • ‘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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • The Subject of Poetry and the Subject of Theory 

      O'Brien, Eugene (Nordic Journal of Irish Studies Special Issue Contemporary Irish Poetry, 2004)
      This essay looks at three poems by Seamus Heaney in the light of Jacques Lacan’s theories of the subject. The type of subjectivity that is revealed in the poems is analysed, looking at Heaney’s early poems ‘Digging’ and ...