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Border Brushstrokes: The Ulster Arts Club and the Post-Partition Nation

  • Aisling Reid
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Abstract

This paper examines the role of the Ulster Arts Club in cultivating a unique artistic heritage in Ulster following the Partition of Ireland in 1921. Located in Belfast, the club served as a key gathering place for art practitioners and enthusiasts to come together and discuss art. I argue that the club embraced local traditions to foster a Northern Irish cultural identity distinct from Ireland and Great Britain. Their efforts were pivotal in shaping an artistic legacy that defined what it meant to be from Ulster during a period of national reconfiguration. The 1921 Partition of Ireland redrew political boundaries and prompted a reconsideration of cultural identities within Northern Ireland.1 Against this backdrop, the Ulster Arts Club was instrumental in defining and shaping the region’s artistic culture. Below, I demonstrate how and why the Club sought to construct a distinct Ulster cultural canon, as I explore the challenges of defining Ulster’s identity postpartition. My research focuses on three key areas of interest; I outline the club’s history and activities before turning in my second part to explore the members’ attempts to forge a distinct Ulster artistic canon. Finally, I briefly theorise the idea of the nation and the ways that material artefacts contribute to its creation and affirmation.

Abstract

This paper examines the role of the Ulster Arts Club in cultivating a unique artistic heritage in Ulster following the Partition of Ireland in 1921. Located in Belfast, the club served as a key gathering place for art practitioners and enthusiasts to come together and discuss art. I argue that the club embraced local traditions to foster a Northern Irish cultural identity distinct from Ireland and Great Britain. Their efforts were pivotal in shaping an artistic legacy that defined what it meant to be from Ulster during a period of national reconfiguration. The 1921 Partition of Ireland redrew political boundaries and prompted a reconsideration of cultural identities within Northern Ireland.1 Against this backdrop, the Ulster Arts Club was instrumental in defining and shaping the region’s artistic culture. Below, I demonstrate how and why the Club sought to construct a distinct Ulster cultural canon, as I explore the challenges of defining Ulster’s identity postpartition. My research focuses on three key areas of interest; I outline the club’s history and activities before turning in my second part to explore the members’ attempts to forge a distinct Ulster artistic canon. Finally, I briefly theorise the idea of the nation and the ways that material artefacts contribute to its creation and affirmation.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgements V
  3. Contents VII
  4. Part I
  5. Borders as Translation Spaces 1
  6. Border Narratives: Crossing Lines and Telling Tales 9
  7. Geophilosophy of the Border: Beyond Immunitarian Politics 21
  8. Borders and Neo-Nationalism: A Geophilosophical Approach 37
  9. We Fight for this Land 51
  10. Converting the Limit: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Infinite in the Act of Difference 63
  11. Liminal Places and Non-Places 77
  12. Border Brushstrokes: The Ulster Arts Club and the Post-Partition Nation 91
  13. Bordering as the Breaking Force of Border Subjects 101
  14. Frontiers of Sexual Difference: The Phantasm of Gender 115
  15. Borders and Language: Hermeneutic-Philosophical Issues 129
  16. ‘Thou wenest Ich be a beggere’: Borders and the Habitus in Middle English Romance 145
  17. Funes the Arboreous: Borderless Ecologies in Borges’s Ficciones 157
  18. Part II
  19. Borders and Barbed Wire: Cahir Healy’s Memoirs from the Argenta Prison Ship 171
  20. A Residue of Boundary Correspondence 183
  21. Two Years on an Ulster Prison Ship 189
  22. Contributors and Editors 307
  23. Index 311
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111448473-008

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgements V
  3. Contents VII
  4. Part I
  5. Borders as Translation Spaces 1
  6. Border Narratives: Crossing Lines and Telling Tales 9
  7. Geophilosophy of the Border: Beyond Immunitarian Politics 21
  8. Borders and Neo-Nationalism: A Geophilosophical Approach 37
  9. We Fight for this Land 51
  10. Converting the Limit: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Infinite in the Act of Difference 63
  11. Liminal Places and Non-Places 77
  12. Border Brushstrokes: The Ulster Arts Club and the Post-Partition Nation 91
  13. Bordering as the Breaking Force of Border Subjects 101
  14. Frontiers of Sexual Difference: The Phantasm of Gender 115
  15. Borders and Language: Hermeneutic-Philosophical Issues 129
  16. ‘Thou wenest Ich be a beggere’: Borders and the Habitus in Middle English Romance 145
  17. Funes the Arboreous: Borderless Ecologies in Borges’s Ficciones 157
  18. Part II
  19. Borders and Barbed Wire: Cahir Healy’s Memoirs from the Argenta Prison Ship 171
  20. A Residue of Boundary Correspondence 183
  21. Two Years on an Ulster Prison Ship 189
  22. Contributors and Editors 307
  23. Index 311
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