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Irish Studies Round the World ‐ 2011 Estudios Irlandeses, Number 7, 2012, pp. 170-200 ____________________________________________________________________________________________ AEDEI IRISH STUDIES ROUND THE WORLD ‐ 2011 Patricia A. Lynch (ed.) Copyright (c) 2012 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 2011 by Patricia A. Lynch ...............................................................................................................172 New Collected Poems (2011) by Derek Mahon Eoin Flannery...........................................................................................................................176 Landscapes of Cult and Kingship (2011) by Roseanne Schot, Conor Newman and Edel Bhreathnach (eds) Colin Ireland ............................................................................................................................179 Colum McCann (2011) by Eóin Flannery William A Johnsen ..................................................................................................................182 Demented Particulars: The Annotated Murphy (2010) by C.J. Ackerley Obscure Locks, Simple Keys The Annotated Watt (2010) by C.J. Ackerley Sean Kennedy ..........................................................................................................................185 Between Two Shores: Idir Dhá Chladach—Writing the Aran Islands 1890-1980 (2011) by Mairéad Conneely Declan Kiberd ….. ..................................................................................................................188 Ireland’s New Religious Movements (2011) by Olivia Cosgrove, Laurence Cox, Carmen Kuhling and Peter Mulholland (eds) Eamon Maher...........................................................................................................................190 __________________ ISSN 1699-311X 171 City of Bohane (2011) by Kevin Barry John L. Murphy …........................................................................................................ .193 Witness Trees (2011) by Lorna Shaughnessy Manuela Palacios .....................................................................................................................195 Aibítir Aoise : Alphabet of an Age (2011) by Celia de Fréine Manuela Palacios .....................................................................................................................197 A History of the Irish Novel (2011) by Derek Hand Gerry Smyth …..………..…. ....................................................................................................199 172 Estudios Irlandeses, Number 7, 2012, pp. 172-175 ____________________________________________________________________________________________ AEDEI Reflections on Irish Writing in 2011 Patricia A. Lynch The year 2011 saw mixed fortunes for Ireland. In the matter of literary significance, there was Financial austerity was imposed by the new much activity. Every month one could take one’s Coalition government, which, while it hurt pick of festivals and schools, large and small, all people, caused great hardship, and increased the over the country. These included the Cúirt forced emigration of many of our best and International Literary Festival in Galway, the brightest, was approved by the EU. Rumbles of Theatre Festival in Dublin, Listowel Writers’ scandals still continued to emerge from sources Week in Kerry, the Bord Gáis Irish Book such as church, banks, and developers. Awards, and the International IMPAC Dublin While the picture has not materially improved, Literary awards. There were also festivals in there are streaks of light on the horizon, in the jazz, film, and dance. Ireland once again figured form of new international and work initiatives. on the Man Booker scene, in the form of For example, while business is weak in many Sebastian Barry’s On Canaan’s Side (2011) in quarters, a number of major industries have the longlist. extended their plants and employment openings. An artistic and cultural project in September, Several towns such as Drogheda have taken part part of the Absolut Fringe festival, seemed to in vibrant programmes to support and develop signify the state of play of the country. Fergal local initiatives in matters of business and McCarthy installed a manmade island in the environment. On the international scale, major centre of the river Liffey, the “artery of the city”, events were the visit of the Queen of England, once pure and now polluted. It was placed which went a long distance to heal old wounds, opposite the Irish Financial Services Centre, and and of the US President, who visited the home of also a number of ambitious luxury apartments, as his ancestors and translated his message of hope signifying the causes of our present problems. and confidence “Yes, we can” into Gaelic as “Is On this he installed a palm tree and a hammock, féidir linn”. Queen Elizabeth too, used a phrase symbols of the thinking which once saw Ireland of flawless Gaelic to introduce her speech to the as a type of unspoiled paradise island on the far Irish nation. Their visits to a number of west of Europe. His intention to live on the significant and historic places in Ireland led to an island for a week did not last long! But the increased number of tourists to our shores. Irish symbolism holds true, for it is Utopian thought sportspeople continued to perform exceptionally which can bring about a reversal of the decadent well for a small country in many fields, social order, as scholars in this field would especially rugby and golf. Later in the year, a suggest (Hegarty 2011: 16). long, sometimes bloody and colourful campaign As we head for 2016, and the centenary of the on the part of seven candidates led to the election events which led to Ireland becoming an of a President of Ireland who is not only a independent and sovereign nation, it is to be politician, but also a poet, patron of the arts, and hoped that fresh thought, patriotism, and artistic an academic, and a leader in many social endeavour will bring Ireland back to full initiatives. Finally, in December, the winter did political, fiscal, creative, and spiritual health. not return to the Arctic conditions of the In a year which saw this reviews editor more previous two years, but was relatively mild. A conversant with the state of the Irish medical good portent, one hopes. profession than with its literary life, I got to ____________________________________ ISSN 1699-311X 173 review personally just a few books. The first of with his wife has faded away (“Recuperating”), these is the above-mentioned On Canaan’s Side and another who rediscovers his bond with his Like Barry’s previous books, it is gripping elderly parents (“Funerals”). The stories are though often harrowing, and beautifully told, surprisingly full of pathos, of the man struggling with elements of surprise deferred. Once again, with the futility of life and a sense of failure. his protagonist is an old but still beautiful and They are mostly in the form of internal mentally vigorous woman, and like the heroine monologues, in which the reader gets an Updike- of Secret Scripture (2008), her identity has some like view of suburban Dublin life and scenes. mystery elements. Lilly Dunne is the youngest However, these stories have been published member of the family on whom Barry has drawn previously in other formats, and the overall for several of his previous novels and plays. impression is of repetition. I have read the vast While her childhood was exceptionally happy, in bulk of the Doyle corpus with pleasure over the spite of the death of her mother at her birth, once years, but this was one book which I was glad to the light of adulthood dawns on her she has to put down. endure many painful experiences, until she On the other hand, finishing Dermot Healy’s reaches eighty-nine at the end of the book. novel Long Time, No See (2011) felt like parting Forced emigration is her lot as a young woman, with friends. This is a richly-layered book, and escaping for her life due to events beyond her repays multiple readings. It is often witty, and control, and parting from her beloved father and poetic especially in the utterances of some of the sisters. She has to endure the death of or characters: “Mister Thomas Feeney said that in betrayal by, the two men whom she loved, the his hospital bed he had been riding high next the necessity to continue fleeing from hidden sister of sorrow” (350). There are echoes of other enemies across the United States for almost all of Irish writers such as Friel in the repetition of a her life, in ways reminiscent of Roddy Doyle’s series of placenames by the old men, which Henry Smart (Oh Play That Thing 2004), and represent the geography of their lives and the destruction by war of her son and grandson. emotions; the elegiac notes of McGahern’s novel Lilly embodies a whole century of Irish history, That They May Face the Rising Sun (2001) may having taken unwitting part in the paroxysms have had an influence too, though these are never which produced the new state, and her son and obvious. It is told from the point of view of grandson are similarly destroyed in the cause of school-leaver Philip, also called Mr Psyche. He the different wars in which the United States had is a typically monosyllabic teenager in his own a part. There are many parallels between her reported dialogue, and tells the reader little
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