A Portrait witnesses the evolution of Stephen's new Irish art: proclamations of "silence, exile, cunning" are made to predict and dictate his future paths of artistic creation. And in Ulysses, Stephen's famous dicta undergo decisive evolution. First and foremost...
The defeat of Hugh O’Neill, 2nd earl of Tyrone, at the Battle of Kinsale in 1601 marked the start of the gradual, century-long collapse of Gaelic civilization as the dominant mode of Irish existence. It also marked the acceleration of a long process of Protestant British colonization that ...
The Pogues recorded five albums with MacGowan beginning in 1984, brilliantly combining traditional Irish music with punk rock. He was fired in the early '90s during a ferocious bout with alcoholism, but not before the Pogues' duet with Kirsty MacColl on "Fairytale in New York" had become a ...
was calledAn Bairneach– Gaelic for The Barnacle. When we got there, he ushered me straight through and into the garden, since he could no longer trust anyone enough to take them into the living room, where his ‘Joyce collection’ was kept. While Solange and I were admiring the wild...
Are you Irish at all? [...] Why don't you learn Irish? Why did you drop out of the [Gaelic] league class after the first lesson? (205) When confronted with these questions about his heritage Stephen responds, When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at...
Physical appearance is no clue, because the Roman commentators describe the Germanic peoples and the Celts in exactly the same terms. Both were tall, tending toward the blond, and light skinned. The word “Teuton”, by the way, is cognate with the Gaelic “tuath”, meaning people or tribe...
Death Duty extended his unbeaten record over fences to three with a comprehensive victory in the Drinmore Novice Chase at Fairyhouse earlier this month and while trainer Gordon Elliott had suggested his charge was likely to head to Limerick for a two-and-a-half-mile Grade Two, he instead ru...
He was also an active participant in the Gaelic language and Irish literature revival, and acted as a literary advisor to the Macmillan publishing house of London, providing an invaluable conduit between Irish authors and a major British publisher. As such, Gwynn offers a unique insight into ...