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Irish Studies Round the World - 2013 Estudios Irlandeses , Number 9, 2014, pp. 178-207 ____________________________________________________________________________________________ AEDEI IRISH STUDIES ROUND THE WORLD - 2013 Patricia A. Lynch (ed.) Copyright (c) 2014 by the authors. This text may be archived and redistributed both in electronic form and in hard copy, provided that the authors and journal are properly cited and no fee is charged for access. Reflections on Irish Writing in 2013 by Patricia A. Lynch .......................................................................................................... 179 Viewpoints . Theoretical Perspectives on Irish Visual Texts (2013) by Claire Bracken and Emma Radley (eds.) Irene Gilsenan Nordin......................................................................................................... 185 Irish Myth, Lore and Legend on Film / Reimagining Ireland – Volume 27 (2013) by Dawn Duncan Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos ................................................................................................... 188 Up the Republic! : Towards a New Ireland (2012) by Fintan O’Toole (ed.) Alfred Markey .................................................................................................................... 190 Ireland Through European Eyes: Western Europe, the EEC, and Ireland 1945-1973 (2013) by Mervyn O’Driscoll, Dermot Keogh, Jerome aan de Wiel (eds.) Edward Moxon-Browne..................................................................................................... 193 The Otherworld : Music & Song from Irish Tradition (2012) by Ríonach uí Ógáin and Tom Sherlock (eds.) John L. Murphy ………………………………………………………………………………195 Secrets of the Irish Landscape (2013) by Matthew Jebb and Colm Crowley (eds.) Patrick O’Connor................................................................................................................ 197 Great Deeds in Ireland: Richard Stanihurst's De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis (2013) by John Barry & Hiram Morgan (eds.) Riana O’Dwyer................................................................................................................... 199 Performing Feminisms in Contemporary Ireland (2013) by Lisa Fitzpatrick (ed.) Tina O’Toole ..................................................................................................................... 202 179 The European Avant-Garde: Text and Image (2012) by Selena Daly and Monica Insinga (eds.) Jonathan L. Owen .............................................................................................................. 204 The Female Figure in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Poetry (2012) by Patricia Boyle Haberstroth Meg Tyler .......................................................................................................................... 206 __________________ ISSN 1699-311X 180 Estudios Irlandeses , Number 9, 2019, pp. 180-184 ____________________________________________________________________________________________ AEDEI Reflections on Irish Writing in 2013 Patricia A. Lynch Today in Ireland, we have moved from serious Theatre will be a marked feature of Irish recession to what is hoped is the beginning of a cultural life in the coming year. The company new and better fiscal era. Recently Ireland exited Druid after forty years are still continuing to the World Bank bail-out which had caused it to produce old and new plays; at present they are lose its economic sovereignty. Now the last of touring Dion Boucicault’s The Colleen Bawn . the rating agencies has updated Ireland’s bonds Druid is to stage a new play by Tom Murphy from Junk status to Investment Grade. However, soon. Not all theatre companies have had serious unemployment and lack of opportunities success: a special committee was tasked in the for young people mean that emigration, past year to review the quality of performances at especially to Australia and Canada, is a strong the premier national theatre, the Abbey, to feature of the lives of most Irish families. This ascertain if its productions were “world class”, has led to an increased use of technology; people and the results were not favourable. Articles in who never before used a computer now use The Irish Times give details of the membership of Skype to keep in touch with their extended the committee and the ratings which they gave families abroad. While there are some the various productions, ranging from improvements in the situation at home, for enthusiastic to not reaching “an acceptable example, an increased number of new jobs, there standard for professional theatre presentation” are still serious problems to be faced. New forms (O’Toole 2014b). One of these plays, a new of tax have been evolved, in the areas of property Frank McGuinness work, The Hanging Gardens , and water. The country is still racked by scandals received one of the higher ratings. Though the over unusually high expenditure of public funds, reviewer did not consider it as one of of which the most prominent is the payment of McGuinness’ better works, the performance of €50 million to consultants in setting up the new Niall Buggy in the main role was praised in company Uisce Éireann/Irish Water to regulate various newspaper reviews at the time of staging. the national supply and billing of water. I had the good fortune to see this production, and Reasons for hope persist in the economy. The what struck me was not so much its place in the nationwide promotion of an event called the McGuinness canon as its similarity to Brian Gathering has led to increased tourism, which Friel’s work. Among other facets were the was helped by the fine weather of a good Donegal setting, the struggling writer, and a summer, a happening that always helps morale. dysfunctional family which achieves some sort of Literary, dramatic and film festivals still redemption at the end. continue. Limerick is the first Irish City of In the field of fiction new books still come out. Culture for 2014 so there will be plays, concerts, Two by Donal Ryan, The Spinning Heart and The festivals of all sorts, historical talks, exhibitions, Thing About December, have jumped from museum projects, arts and antiquities. Not only obscurity to fame. Appropriately for the coming will the sports events be out of doors but there year, Donal lives in Limerick, and is contributing are to be lighting displays of architecture, the well to the cultural scene. Some recent books, creation of a community garden, parades, and a fiction and non-fiction, which I wish to review play staged on a boat in the River Shannon. for this issue of the journal are The Crocodile by ____________________________________ ISSN 1699-311X 181 the Door (Selina Guinness 2012), The Devil I their expectations leads to even greater Know (Claire Kilroy 2012), and Staring at Lakes responsibilities for the young owner. (Michael Harding 2013). There is a very strong sense of place in this To begin with The Crocodile by the Door , this text, so much so that the reader can clearly book is many things. First of all, though envisage the estate rolling down almost to the autobiographical, it represents an update on the sea, and gain a cartographic sense of the whole theme of the Big House, bringing it up to 2012. area, and its presence in relation to Dublin city. The subtitle claims that it is “the story of a house, Every field has a name (208). This immediacy is a farm, and a family”. Tibradden is a relict of a even greater when it is juxtaposed with the maps lost world which saw this area of parkland on and designs of the developers who wish to buy a hills sweeping down to the sea as one of a chain section of the property. The narrator not only has of similar parklands which in older times a continuing family attachment to her ancestral belonged to similar Ascendancy families. It is the home, but it has become her Arcadia; as a child property of a branch of the famous brewing when she came here to her grandparents and family, Guinness. The book is imbued with a uncle, she “always felt as if [she]’d come safely very strong sense of tradition, with frequent home at last” (21). When she comes back 20 references to something which a great-great- years later, it is to stay. grandfather or other ancestor planted (1). In a This is a woman’s autobiography, a love story style reminiscent of many Big House narratives, of a man and a woman, and also the story of the the house and property are in a semi-ruinous love these two bear for the place. The reader is state, and the narrator and her family stagger struck with admiration for the narrator’s from crisis to crisis in an effort to keep the ship frankness and especially her courage. She has to afloat. Over the decades, the Guinness family handle at the same time being a committed have had to sell off parts of the land to fund academic, while taking on the new roles of wife, themselves. The newer generations have to take mother, stepmother, farmer, and business woman. over after bad administration which has run the She becomes a carer also for the aged and property down, leading to back-breaking work on disabled Kirwans, and does not shirk the duty of the farm and in the house, as well as having to going straight to the body of her hanged face tough decisions about the future. The hard employee when she receives the news of his work involved in this labour ties the young death. In these early years as owner of the place, heiress and her husband even more to the place as she has to deal also with developers and planners; she states that “sweat creates an attachment
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