2011-09-302011-09-301999O'Brien,E.(2002).'North:The Politics of Plurality',Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing, 2(1 & 2), 1-19http://hdl.handle.net/10395/1086This 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 taking place in North, is a pluralization of the “voice of the tribe” in a manner which is ethically driven in the sense of opening the tribe, and the language of the tribe, to the voice of the other.engPoetryHeaneyPluralityPoliticsEthicsArticle