![]() James Joyce (1922: 42) Deliverance, oh Lord Deliverance or Death – Deliverance, or this island a desert! James Fintan Lalor (1921: 57–8) xii Hillis Miller (1995: 4) History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. Martin Heidegger (1971: 24) There is always a figure in the landscape. Michel Foucault (1986: 22) History is the chronicle of man’s concern for ‘place’. Michel de Certeau (1988: 115) The present epoch will perhaps be above all the epoch of space. Seamus Deane (1994: 132) Every story is a travel story – a spatial practice. Connolly (1998: 34) Representation becomes the auratic process by which a place that had been misrepresented or not represented at all finally achieves presence. baile biataigh, ‘residence of a food provider’), a medieval territorial unit, a subdivision of the cantred, of varying extent, depending on the quality of the soil and the nature of the terrain. Ciaran Carson, from ‘The Bomb Disposal’ (1988: 32) ballyboe (ballybetach) (Ir. Gaston Bachelard (1994: xxxiii, original emphasis) The city is a map of the city, / Its forbidden areas changing daily. by remembering ‘houses’ and ‘rooms’, we learn to ‘abide’ within ourselves. is ground for taking the house as a tool for analysis of the human soul. Weiner, 20 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989) and trans.), The Metrical Dindsenchas: Parts I–V (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1903, 1906, 1913, 1924, 1935) Eugene O’Curry, Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History (1861 Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1995) The Oxford English Dictionary 2nd edn., prepared by J.A. Joyce, The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places (Dublin: McGlashan & Gill, 1869) Edward Gwynn (ed. John O’Donovan (ed.), Annala Rioghachta Eireann: Annals of the Four Masters of the Kingdom of Ireland from the Earliest Period to the Year 1616, 7 vols (Dublin: Hodges & Smith, 1848–51) Various Arrangers, Contributions to a Dictionary of the Irish Language (Dublin: Royal Irish Academy) P.W. List of Maps ‘Ireland’ by Gerry Smyth ‘Tallaght and Environs’ by Sam Ball ‘Firhouse’ by Lizzie Smyth List of Abbreviations Some Aphorisms and Definitionsġ Irish Cultural Studies and the Re-emergence of Spatial Analysis Philosophy Ecocriticism Postmodern geography Marxism Ireland and the ‘special relationship’ ConclusionĢ Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination Travel and tourism Mapping/naming Poetry The country and the cityģ The Location of Criticism, or, Putting the ‘I’ into ‘Ireland’ The River Dodder Tallaght Firhouse Conclusion: homeworkĤ Big Mistakes in Small Places: Exterior and Interior Space in Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark Reading in the Dark Derry Aileach Borders and bridges House Conclusionĥ ‘Show Me the Way to Go Home’: Space and Place in the Music of U2 Introduction: mapping the beat U2: space and place Into the arms of America Conclusion Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire Deane, Seamus, 1940– Reading in the dark. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Smyth, Gerry, 1961– Space and the Irish cultural imagination / Gerry Smyth. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 0–333–79407–9 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Martin’s Press LLC Scholarly and Reference Division and Palgrave Publishers Ltd (formerly Macmillan Press Ltd). 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE is the new global academic imprint of St. First published 2001 by PALGRAVE Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination Gerry Smyth Senior Lecturer in Cultural History Liverpool John Moores University Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination Gerry SmythĪlso by Gerry Smyth DECOLONISATION AND CRITICISM: The Construction of Irish Literature THE NOVEL AND THE NATION: Studies in the New Irish Fiction ![]()
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