Classics and Irish politics, 1916-2016 /
"This collection addresses how models from ancient Greece and Rome have permeated Irish political discourse in the century since 1916. The 1916 Easter Rising, when Irish nationalists rose up against British imperial forces, was almost instantly mythologized in Irish political memory as a turnin...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Classical presences.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 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.