Record of Reading
Main Texts to be Discussed:
n Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
n Freedom of the City by Brian Friel
n Potentially some Seamus Heaney poems and/or another Friel play
Already Read:
n portions of Brian Friel, Ireland
n “The Orange Idealist” by Robert Lynd
n “Guest of the Nation” by Frank O’Connor
n “Changing History – Peace Building in Northern Ireland
n “Reconciliation and the Politics of Forgiveness” from The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation by R. Scott Appleby
n The Cambridge
n “Joycean Epiphany in Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark” by Dermot Kelly
n “Symptom and Fantasy in Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark” by Conor Carville
n “Reading in the Light of Reading
n “What I’ve Learned from Seamus Heaney” by Olivia O’Leary
Former reading that will likely be helpful (need to review each one):
n “The Social Structure of the Irish Republican Army, 1916-1923” by Peter Hart
n “Language, Myth, and History in the Later Plays of Brian Friel” by F.C. McGrath
n “Carrying Across into Silence: Brian Friel’s Translations” by Suzy Clarkson Holstein
n “Molly Astray: Revisioning Ireland
n “The Indignant Sublime: Specters of Irish Hunger” by David Lloyd
n “’Outside of here it’s death’: Co-Dependency and the Ghosts of Decolonization in Beckett’s Endgame” by Nels C. Pearson
n “Scare More a Corpse: Famine Memory and Representations of the Gothic in Ulysses” by James R. Wurtz
n “Irish Hunger Strikes and the Cult of Self-Sacrifice” by George Sweeney
n “Strategies of Silence: Colonial Strains in Short Stories of the Troubles” by Ronan McDonald
n “The Truth-Tellers of William Trevor” by Julian Gitzen
n “William Trevor’s Martyrs for Truth” by Richard Bonaccorso
n “Review: Postcolonial Poet” by Priscilla Long (review of Eavan Boland’s The Lost Land)
n “’We Were Never on the Scene of the Crime’: Eavan Boland’s Repossession of History” by Patricia L. Hagan and Thomas W. Zelman
n “Eavan Boland and the Politics of Authority in Irish Poetry” by Catriona Clutterbuck
n “Decolonizing Rosaleen: Some Feminist, Nationalist, and Postcolonialist Discourses in Irish Studies” by Kim McMullen
n “Colonialism and the Problem of Identity in Irish Literature” by Patrick Colm Hogan
n “Between Speech and Silence: The Postcolonial Critic and the Idea of Emancipation” by Paul Muldoon
To Be Read and/or Currently Reading (as of 5/23/11…may alter):
n Writing History, Writing Trauma by Dominick LaCapra
n Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History by Cathy Caruth
n Works by Dori Laub and Shoshana Feldman
n Excerpts from The Diviner: The Art of Brian Friel by Richard Pine
n Actign Between the Lines: The Field Day Theatre Company and Irish Cultural Politics, 1980-1984 by Marilynn J. Richtarik
n “Justpeace” by John Paul Lederach
n “The Meaning of Reconciliation” by Hizkias Assefa
n Excerpts from Brian Friel in Conversation Edited by Paul Delaney
n Excerpts from Irish Literature since 1990: Diverse Voices Edited by Scott Brewster and Michael Parker
n “Catholic and Protestant Literary Visions of ‘Ulster
n “Irish Studies and the Adequacy of Theory: The Case of Brian Friel” by Shaun Richards
n Excerpts from Brian Friel: Essays, Diaries, Interviews: 1964-1999 Edited by Christopher Murray
n Rupture, Representation, and the Refashioning of Identity in Drama from the North of Ireland
n Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790 by Seamus Deane
n Brian Friel’s (Post)Colonial Drama: Language, Illusion, and Politics by F.C. McGrath
n “British Romans and Irish Carthaginians: Anticolonial Metaphor in Heaney, Friel, and McGuinness” by Elizabeth Butler Cullingford
n “Territory and People or People and Territory? Thoughts on Postcolonial Self-Determination” by David B. Knight
n “Globalization and Culture: Placing Ireland
n “Irish Women in London : National or Hybrid Diasporic Identities?” by Breda
n “New Ireland/Hidden Ireland
n “An Interview with Seamus Deane: University College , Dublin
n “Review: Literature, Nationalism and the Challenge of Representation” by Catherine Frost (a review of Joe Cleary’s Literature, Partition and the Nation State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland , Israel and Palestine
n “Varieties of Irishness?: Some New Explanations” by Paul Bew
n “Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?” by Kwame Anthony Appiah
n Excerpts from The Cambridge
n Excerpts from The Cambridge
Still need to find and/or print:
n “Nationalisms Against the State” by David Lloyd
n “Regarding Ireland
n Banal Nationalism by Michael Billig
n “Joyce and Nationalism” by Seamus Deane
n “We Are All Revisionists Now” by Roy Foster
n “Yeats and Decolonization” by Edward Said (may have in office…?)
n Making History by Brian Friel
n “Translating History: Brian Friel and the Irish Past” by Sean Connolly
n “The Pitfalls of National Consciousness” by Frantz Fanon
n “Brian Friel: The Double Stage” by Seamus Deane
n “Historical Actuality” by Elizabeth Winkler
n “Forms of Redress” by Michael Parker
n “Hegemonic Discourses” by Helen Fulton
n ** The Location of Culture by Homi Bhabha
n * Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland
n ** “Field Day Five Years On” by John Gray
Other Potential Reference Texts:
n Principles of Freedom by Terrence J. MacSwiney
n A Popular History of Ireland
n Northern Ireland
n Ireland
n Ireland
n Home Rule by Harold Spender
n “An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland
n Irish Writing in the Twentieth-Century Edited by Pierce
n Inventing Ireland
Films:
n The Wind that Shakes the Barley
n Omagh
n Hunger
n Five Minutes of Heaven
n In the Name of the Father
n Michael Collins
n Bloody Sunday
* I also hope to be able to use audio recordings of various speakers/meetings during the trip as source material. I plan to explore issues of Field Day at the Queens University , Belfast
