Classics and Irish Politics, 1916-2016
Edited by Isabelle Torrance and Donncha O'Rourke
Table of Contents
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List of Contributors
1. Classics and Irish Politics: Introduction Isabelle Torrance and Donncha O'Rourke
I: RECEPTION AND REJECTION OF THE CLASSICS IN IRELAND
2. The Use and Abuse of Classics: Thoughts on Empire, Epic, and Language Declan Kiberd
3. Greece, Rome, and the Revolutionaries of 1916 Brian McGing
4. Classics in the Van of the Irish Revolt: Thomas MacDonagh, 'alien to Athens and Rome?' Eoghan Moloney
II: LANGUAGE POLITICS
5. Translating into Irish from Greek and Latin in the Early Years of the Irish State Síle Ní Mhurchú
6. Classics through Irish at University College, Galway, 1931-78 Pádraic Moran
Â7. Dinneen's Irish Virgil Fiachra Mac Góráin
8. Classics, Medievalism, and Cultural Politics in Myles na gCopaleen's Cruiskeen Lawn Columns Cillian O'HoganÂ
III: BETWEEN SCHOLARSHIP AND LITERATURE
9. Abjection and the Irish-Greek Fir Bolg in Aran Island Writing Arabella Currie
10. Sinn Féin and Ulysses: Between Professor Robert Mitchell Henry and James Joyce Edith Hall
11. Yeats and Oedipus: The Dark Road Chris Morash
IV: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND CLASS
12. Wilde, Classicism, and Homosexuality in Modern Ireland Eibhear Walshe
13. Trojan Women and Irish Sexual Politics, 1920-2015 Isabelle Torrance
14. Irish Didos: Empire, Gender, and Class in the Irish Popular Tradition to Frank McGuinness's Carthaginians Siobhán McElduff
V: CLASSICAL POETRY AND NORTHERN IRELAND
15. Elegies for Ireland: W. B. Yeats, Michael Longley, and the Roman Elegists Donncha O'Rourke
16. Michael Longley's 'Ceasefire' and the Iliad Maureen Alden
17. Post-Ceasefire Antigones and Northern Ireland Isabelle Torrance
VI: MATERIAL CULTURE AND (DE)COLONIALISM
18. Classicism in the Making of Commemorative Monuments in Newly Independent Ireland Judith Hill
19. The Politics of Neoclassicism in Belfast and Dublin: A Tale of Two Buildings Suzanne O'Neill
20. The Classical Themes of Irish Coinage, 1928-2002: Images from a Usable Past Christine Morris
21. Epilogue Richard P. Martin
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