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My Palate Hung With Starlight: A Gastrocritical Reading Of Seamus Heaney’S Poetry, Anke Klitzing
My Palate Hung With Starlight: A Gastrocritical Reading Of Seamus Heaney’S Poetry, Anke Klitzing
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Nobel-prize winning poet Seamus Heaney is celebrated for his rich verses recalling his home in the Northern Irish countryside of County Derry. Yet while the imaginative links to nature in his poetry have already been critically explored, little attention has been paid so far to his rendering of local food and foodways. From ploughing, digging potatoes and butter-churning to picking blackberries, Heaney sketches not only the everyday activities of mid-20th century rural Ireland, but also the social dynamics of community and identity and the socio-cultural symbiosis embedded in those practices. Larger questions of love, life and death also infiltrate the …
Rendering That Darkness At The Heart Of Priesthood : The Strangled Impulse By William King, Eamon Maher
Rendering That Darkness At The Heart Of Priesthood : The Strangled Impulse By William King, Eamon Maher
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John Mcgahern : His Time And His Places, Eamon Maher, Paul Butler
John Mcgahern : His Time And His Places, Eamon Maher, Paul Butler
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This article arose out of a collaboration between the two authors, Eamon Maher, a McGahern “expert,” and Paul Butler, a photographer who moved to Leitrim in the 1990s and who has been accumulating a pictorial narrative of McGahern’s home county ever since. As part of the Red Rua book festival in 2013, the authors decided to do an illustrated talk on McGahern’s work that would go alongside Paul’s exhibition, Still, which is a combination of images and text revolving around the writer’s native county.
''They All Seem To Have Inherited The Horrible Ugliness And Sewer Filth Of Sex'' : Catholic Guilt In Selected Works By John Mcgahern (1934-2006), Eamon Maher
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The Religious Landscape Of Walter Macken's Fictional Universe, Eamon Maher
The Religious Landscape Of Walter Macken's Fictional Universe, Eamon Maher
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Eamon Maher lectures in the Department of Humanities, Technological University Dublin. He is director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies.
Tracing The Imprint: Catholicism In Some Twentieth Century Irish Fiction, Eamon Maher
Tracing The Imprint: Catholicism In Some Twentieth Century Irish Fiction, Eamon Maher
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In a seminal article published in Studies in 1965, Augustine Martin noted now Irish writers were characterised by what he termed 'inherited dissent', a tendency that led them to replace their original religious faith with blends of the mystical and aesthetic:
Spirituality In The Underground, Eamon Maher
Spirituality In The Underground, Eamon Maher
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Faith And Mystery In Kate O'Brien's ''The Ante Room'', Eamon Maher
Faith And Mystery In Kate O'Brien's ''The Ante Room'', Eamon Maher
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The Transforming Power Of Grace, Eamon Maher
The Transforming Power Of Grace, Eamon Maher
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"An Outsider's View Of Modern Ireland: Michel Houellebecq's Atomised", Eamon Maher
"An Outsider's View Of Modern Ireland: Michel Houellebecq's Atomised", Eamon Maher
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Belfast: The Far From Sublime City In Brian Moore's Early Novels, Eamon Maher
Belfast: The Far From Sublime City In Brian Moore's Early Novels, Eamon Maher
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