Browsing Department of English Language and Literature by Issue Date
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More than a language … no more of a Language’: Merriman, Heaney and the Metamorphoses of Translation
(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 ... -
‘You’ve a daughter yourself?’: a corpus-based look at lexico-grammatical choices and pragmatic effects in question forms in an Irish radio phone-in (Pre-published version)
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2005)Questions are widely studied especially in institutional contexts where a pervasion of questions is characteristic of such genres, for example political interviews, doctor-patient exchanges, courtroom interactions, and ... -
Towards a farewell: A brief life
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'Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse...': Catholicism, deconstruction and postmodernity in contemporary Irish culture (Pre-published version)
(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 ... -
'When it’s there I am, it’s here I want to be': the construction of Connemara
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'No longer afraid’ Michael Hartnett’s poems to younger women
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Versions and Palimpsests: Rebecca West’s The Sentinel, Adela, and The Judge
(University of Delaware Press, Associated University Presses, 2006) -
The Body as Ethical Synecdoche in the Writing of Seamus Heaney
(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 ... -
Review of 'Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing: Volume 3, Number 1, Spring/Summer, 2005 by Chris Agee, Cathal Ó Searcaigh and Sean Mac Aindreasa'
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 2006) -
Gable-ends and Che Guevara: political murals and postcolonial ethics
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Second language speaking (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2006)Approaches to spoken language description have contributed to the understanding of second language speaking. Three theoretical frameworks have also provided insight. Language Identity looks at the impact an additional ... -
Beginnings: Virginia Woolf’s 'Melymbrosia' and Rebecca West’s 'The Sentinel'
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The Language of Empire and the Empire of Language: Joyce and the Return of the Postcolonial Repressed
(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 ... -
'Tore down a la Rimbaud': Brendan Kennelly and the French connection
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Seamus Heaney: Creating Irelands of the Mind Studies on Contemporary Ireland Series
(Liffey Press, 2007) -
Looking out for love and all the rest of it: vague category markers as shared social space (Pre-published version)
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Guests (Geists) of a Nation: A Heimlich (Unheimlich) Maneuver
(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 ... -
Gothic ‘Un-representations’ of Terror in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse -5.
(Binghamton University, 2007)