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Visions of the Irish Dream
Editor: Marguerite Quintelli-Neary
Date Of Publication: Apr 2009
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-0350-2
Isbn: 1-4438-0350-2
Visions of the Irish Dream assembles essays that examine the elusive dream of the Irish and Irish Americans, looking at aspirations of 19th-century emigrants to Canada and the United States, political and educational goals of the Irish, historic trauma, contemporary xenophobia, and artists’ renditions of “Irishness.” Whether the dreams are fulfilled or deferred, they all strive to come to terms with what it means to be Irish; sometimes the definition involves bringing a piece of the old country with you, buying facsimiles of “genuine Irish goods,” or redefining self in a way that frees Ireland of the colonial model. This study explores the conflicted and shifting visions of the people who inhabit or have left an isolated island that has moved from a search for independence to integration into a European union. From discussion of the politics of translation in Ferguson and Mangan to the establishment of the National schools, the movement of the Celts from continental Europe as evidenced in Joyce to the translatlantic flight of the Irish to the Americas in a drama by Nicola McCartney, and the re-invention of the feminine force in the writings of novelists Jennifer Johnston and Roddy Doyle to the feminine voice expressed in the work of poet Eiléan NíChuilleanáin, the collection underscores the significance of the dream in Irish history and the arts.
Marguerite Quintelli-Neary is an Associate Professor of English at Winthrop University, where she teaches courses in British and Irish Literature, the Novel, and folklore and edits Working Papers in Irish Studies. She has published numerous articles on modern Irish literature and folklore in Nua, The Journal of Irish Literature, Etudes Irlandaises, New Hibernia Review, Kelten and other journals. She served as assistant editor of and contributor to the 2-volume Dictionary of Irish Literature in 1996 (Greenwood); her study of the Irish novel and fantasy appeared in 1997 (Greenwood); and her most recent study, The Irish American Myth of the Frontier West of 2008 (Academica, Maunsel imprint), examines Irish American folklore and the American frontier of the 1860s-1880s.
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