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This collection addresses how models from ancient Greece and Rome have permeated Irish political discourse in the century since 1916. The 1916 Easter Rising, when Irish nationalists rose up against British imperial forces, became almost instantly mythologized in Irish political memory as a turning point in the nation's history that paved the way for Irish independence. Its centenary has provided a natural point for reflection on Irish politics, and this volume highlights an unexplored element in Irish political discourse, namely its frequent reliance on, reference to, and tensions with classical Greek and Roman models. Topics covered include the reception and rejection of classical culture in Ireland; the politics of Irish language engagement with Greek and Roman models; the intersection of Irish literature with scholarship in Classics and Celtic Studies; the use of classical referents to articulate political inequalities across gender, sexual, and class hierarchies; meditations on the Northern Irish conflict through classical literature; and the political implications of neoclassical material culture in Irish society. As the only country colonized by Britain with a pre-existing indigenous heritage of expertise in classical languages and literature, postcolonial Ireland represents a unique case in the field of classical reception. This book opens a window on a rich and varied dialogue between significant figures in Irish cultural history and the Greek and Roman sources that have inspired them, a dialogue that is firmly rooted in Ireland's historical past and continues to be ever-evolving.
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1. Classics and Irish Politics: Introduction Isabelle Torrance and Donncha O'Rourke
I: RECEPTION AND REJECTION OF THE CLASSICS IN IRELAND
2. The Use and Abuse of Classics: Thoughts on Empire, Epic, and Language Declan Kiberd
3. Greece, Rome, and the Revolutionaries of 1916 Brian McGing
4. Classics in the Van of the Irish Revolt: Thomas MacDonagh, 'alien to Athens and Rome?' Eoghan Moloney
II: LANGUAGE POLITICS
5. Translating into Irish from Greek and Latin in the Early Years of the Irish State Síle Ní Mhurchú
6. Classics through Irish at University College, Galway, 1931-78 Pádraic Moran
7. Dinneen's Irish Virgil Fiachra Mac Góráin
8. Classics, Medievalism, and Cultural Politics in Myles na gCopaleen's Cruiskeen Lawn Columns Cillian O'Hogan
III: BETWEEN SCHOLARSHIP AND LITERATURE
9. Abjection and the Irish-Greek Fir Bolg in Aran Island Writing Arabella Currie
10. Sinn Féin and Ulysses: Between Professor Robert Mitchell Henry and James Joyce Edith Hall
11. Yeats and Oedipus: The Dark Road Chris Morash
IV: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND CLASS
12. Wilde, Classicism, and Homosexuality in Modern Ireland Eibhear Walshe
13. Trojan Women and Irish Sexual Politics, 1920-2015 Isabelle Torrance
14. Irish Didos: Empire, Gender, and Class in the Irish Popular Tradition to Frank McGuinness's Carthaginians Siobhán McElduff
V: CLASSICAL POETRY AND NORTHERN IRELAND
15. Elegies for Ireland: W. B. Yeats, Michael Longley, and the Roman Elegists Donncha O'Rourke
16. Michael Longley's 'Ceasefire' and the Iliad Maureen Alden
17. Post-Ceasefire Antigones and Northern Ireland Isabelle Torrance
VI: MATERIAL CULTURE AND (DE)COLONIALISM
18. Classicism in the Making of Commemorative Monuments in Newly Independent Ireland Judith Hill
19. The Politics of Neoclassicism in Belfast and Dublin: A Tale of Two Buildings Suzanne O'Neill
20. The Classical Themes of Irish Coinage, 1928-2002: Images from a Usable Past Christine Morris
21. Epilogue Richard P. Martin
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