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Classics And Irish Politics: Introduction / Isabelle Torrance, Donncha O'rourke -- The Use And Abuse Of Classics: Thoughts On Empire, Epic, And Language / Declan Kiberd -- Greece, Rome, And The Revolutionaries Of 1916 / Brian Mcging -- Classics In The Van Of The Irish Revolt: Thomas Macdonagh, 'alien To Athens And Rome'? / Eoghan Moloney -- Translating Into Irish From Greek And Latin In The Early Years Of The Irish State / Síle Ní Mhurchú -- Classics Through Irish At University College, Galway, 1931-78 / Pádraic Moran -- Dinneen's Irish Virgil / Fiachra Mac Góráin -- Classics, Medievalism, And Cultural Politics In Myles Na Gcopaleen's Cruiskeen Lawn Columns / Cillian O'hogan -- Abjection And The Irish-greek Fir Bolg In Aran Island Writing / Arabella Currie -- Sinn Féin And Ulysses: Between Professor Robert Mitchell Henry And James Joyce / Edith Hall -- Yeats And Oedipus: The Dark Road / Chris Morash -- Wilde, Classicism, And Homosexuality In Modern Ireland / Eibhear Walshe -- Trojan Women And Irish Sexual Politics, 1920-2015 / Isabelle Torrance -- Irish Didos: Empire, Gender, And Class In The Irish Popular Tradition To Frank Mcguiness's Cathaginians / Siobhán Mcelduff -- Elegies For Ireland: W. B. Yeats, Michael Longley, And The Roman Elegists / Donncha O'rourke -- Michael Longley's 'ceasefire' And The Iliad / Maureen Alden -- Post-ceasefire Antigones And Northern Ireland / Isabelle Torrance -- Classicism And The Making Of Commemorative Monuments In Newly Independent Ireland / Judith Hill -- The Politics Of Neoclassicism In Belfast And Dublin: A Tale Of Two Buildings / Suzanne O'neill -- The Classical Themes Of Irish Coinage, 1928-2002: Images From A Usable Past / Christine Morris. Edited By Isabelle Torrance And Donncha O'rourke. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.
This volume investigates how the reception of Greek and Roman antiquity has informed, shaped, and been utilized within Irish political and cultural discourse from the 1916 Rising through the centenary in 2016. Edited by Donncha O'Rourke and Isabelle Torrance, the collection brings together scholars from various disciplines to analyze the intersection of classical scholarship, translation, and national identity. The contributors argue that the appropriation of classical motifs served as a vital tool for Irish revolutionaries, writers, and state-builders to articulate their political aspirations and cultural independence.
What You Will Find
Scope Limits
Scholars and historians recognize this collection as a significant contribution to the field of classical reception studies within a specific national context. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose and the specialized nature of the interdisciplinary analysis provided by the contributors.
Page Count:
328
Publication Date:
2020-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
ISBN-10:
0192633449
ISBN-13:
9780192633446