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13 ‘Sacred spaces’
Writing home in recent Irish memoirs and autobiographies (John McGahern’s Memoir, Hugo Hamilton’s The Speckled People, Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark and John Walsh’s The Falling Angels)
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Stephen Regan
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Notes on contributors viii
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Part I Contexts
- 1 Changing history 3
- 2 Flying high? 16
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Part II Drama
- 3 Home places 43
- 4 Women on the stage in the 1990s 59
- 5 The stuff of tragedy? 79
- 6 New articulations of Irishness and otherness on the contemporary Irish stage 98
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Part III Poetry
- 7 Scattered and diverse 121
- 8 Architectural metaphors 142
- 9 ‘The places I go back to’ 160
- 10 Neither here nor there 177
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Part IV Fiction and autobiography
- 11 ‘Tomorrow we will change our names, invent ourselves again’ 201
- 12 Anne Enright and postnationalism in the contemporary Irish novel 216
- 13 ‘Sacred spaces’ 232
- 14 Secret gardens 250
- 15 ‘What’s it like being Irish?’ 258
- 16 Remembering to forget 272
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Part V After words
- 17 ‘What do I say when they wheel out their dead?’ 287
- Bibliography 309
- Index 327
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Notes on contributors viii
-
Part I Contexts
- 1 Changing history 3
- 2 Flying high? 16
-
Part II Drama
- 3 Home places 43
- 4 Women on the stage in the 1990s 59
- 5 The stuff of tragedy? 79
- 6 New articulations of Irishness and otherness on the contemporary Irish stage 98
-
Part III Poetry
- 7 Scattered and diverse 121
- 8 Architectural metaphors 142
- 9 ‘The places I go back to’ 160
- 10 Neither here nor there 177
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Part IV Fiction and autobiography
- 11 ‘Tomorrow we will change our names, invent ourselves again’ 201
- 12 Anne Enright and postnationalism in the contemporary Irish novel 216
- 13 ‘Sacred spaces’ 232
- 14 Secret gardens 250
- 15 ‘What’s it like being Irish?’ 258
- 16 Remembering to forget 272
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Part V After words
- 17 ‘What do I say when they wheel out their dead?’ 287
- Bibliography 309
- Index 327