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Observe The Sons Of Ulster Talking Themselves To Death (Chapter In The Theatre Of Frank Mcguinness: Stages Of Mutability), Kathleen A. Heininge
Observe The Sons Of Ulster Talking Themselves To Death (Chapter In The Theatre Of Frank Mcguinness: Stages Of Mutability), Kathleen A. Heininge
Faculty Publications - Department of English
Excerpt: "Within Irish drama of the late 20'h century, the use of language as a marker for lrishness begins to shift away from a focus on accents and Hiberno-English, towards a use of language that attempts to actually establish new truths: truths about relationships and alliances, truths about history, truths about memory, and especially truths about identity. Language becomes the very means of change and hope, in drama that has become concerned with the use of language not as signifier of nation but as reiteration of the stories that might be able to change through that reiteration. What is 'true' …