Readings in Prep for my MA essay

Record of Reading for MA Essay:

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, and The North by Scott Boltwood

n      “The Orange Idealist” by Robert Lynd

n      “Guest of the Nation” by Frank O’Connor

n      “Changing History – Peace Building in Northern Ireland” by Mari Fitzduff

n      “Reconciliation and the Politics of Forgiveness” from The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation by R. Scott Appleby

n      The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel – Edited by Anthony Roche

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 in the Dark” by Eoin Flannery

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 in Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney” by Karen M. Moloney

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’: Now You See It, Now You Don’t” by Norman Vance

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, 1969-1994 by Bernard McKenna

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” by G. Honor Fagan

n      “Irish Women in London: National or Hybrid Diasporic Identities?” by Breda Gray

n      “New Ireland/Hidden Ireland: Reading Recent Irish Fiction” by Kim McMullen

n      “An Interview with Seamus Deane: University College, Dublin, June 1993” by Dympna Callaghan and Seamus Deane

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 Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama Edited by Shaun Richards

n      Excerpts from The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies Edited by Neil Lazarus

Still need to find and/or print:

n      “Nationalisms Against the State” by David Lloyd

n      “Regarding Ireland in a Postcolonial Frame” by David Lloyd

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 Since 1965: Moments of Danger by Richard Kirkland

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 by Thomas D’Arcy Mcgee

n      Northern Ireland: A Very Short History by Marc Mulholland

n      Ireland Since Parnell by D.D. Sheehan

n      Ireland in Conflict: 1922-1998 by T.G. Fraser

n      Home Rule by Harold Spender

n      “An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland” by Henry Brooke

n      Irish Writing in the Twentieth-Century Edited by Pierce

n      Inventing Ireland by Declan Kiberd

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 library, as well.