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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-17672-0 — a History of Irish Modernism Edited by Gregory Castle , Patrick Bixby Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-17672-0 — A History of Irish Modernism Edited by Gregory Castle , Patrick Bixby Index More Information Index 1922, 191, 243–4, 256, 365 Arrighi, Giovanni, 144 Arrington, Lauren, 365 Abbey Theatre, 64–8, 70, 82, 99, 193, 196, 203, Auden, W. H., 299, 305 228, 231, 232, 239, 269 Auge, Andrew, 303 Adorno, Theodor, 176, 387–8 aestheticism, 30–1, 32, 162, 168 Backus, Margot, 283 aesthetics, 6, 65, 131, 195, 236, 237, 239, 280, 281, Bacon, Francis, 233 357, 368, 376, 381, 391 Barnes, Djuna, 35, 165 affect Nightwood, 35–6, 38 disaffection, 12–13, 15, 243, 246, 251, 255, 256 Barthes, Roland, 347 Akenson, Donald, 44, 61 Bataille, Georges, 165, 174 All Ireland Review, 52, 97 Beach, Sylvia, 129, 139, 164 Allen, Máirin, 350 Beckett, Samuel, 1, 19, 163–5, 169, 171, 233, 253, Allen, Michael, 299, 302 292, 293, 346, 347, 351–3, 354, 379–90 Allen, Nicholas, 10, 204 “Poetry Is Vertical,” 381 America, 259–62, 324 “Proust,” 358–9 African America, 236–7, 242 “Psychology Notes,” 357 Irish America, 14, 38, 260, 262, 266, 267, “Recent Irish Poetry,” 57, 165, 381 268, 295 “The Capital of the Ruins,” 389 American literature “Censorship in the Saorstát,” 165 poetry, 292, 293, 301, 304, 305 All That Fall, 383 An Claidheamh Soluis, 98 and Irish landscape, 356–7 Anderson, Margaret, 198 and National Socialism (Nazism), 384, 386 Anderson, Perry, 144 and Nobel Prize, 382 anti-Semitism, 214, 216, 217, 221, 223, 225, and translation, 382, 383, 384 386, 387 Endgame, 387 Aquinas, 143 First Love, 355–6, 359 Aquinas, Thomas, 143 Malone Dies, 386 archipelago, 13, 260, 261–2, 268, 272 Mercier and Camier, 354, 383–5 Architectural Association of Ireland (AAI), Molloy, 113, 359, 382, 383, 385–6, 389 399, 402 More Pricks than Kicks, 382 architecture, Irish, 20, 394–415 Murphy, 357, 362 1916 Jubilee celerations, 414 Not I, 39–40, 355 Ballymun Estate, 394–415 Texts for Nothing, 354–5 Catholic Church design, 413–14 The Unnamable, 354, 355, 383 Garden of Remembrance, 405–8 Trilogy, 21 Garden Suburb theorists, 397–8 Waiting for Godot, 39, 172, 355, 386 Liberty Hall, 411–13 Watt, 382 New Towns, 404 Behan, Brendan, 382 prefabrication technology, 402–3 Benson, Lee, 45 Armstrong, Tim, 153 Benveniste, Émile, 355 419 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-17672-0 — A History of Irish Modernism Edited by Gregory Castle , Patrick Bixby Index More Information 420 Index Bergson, Henri, 168, 171 Colum, Padraic, 167 Bhabha, Homi, 49, 50, 278 Connolly, James, 54, 97 Big House novel, 252–6 Conrad, Joseph Bildung, 37, 49, 210 Heart of Darkness, 28, 32 Bildungsroman, 36, 37, 142, 246, 282–4, 323, 327–8 Corkery, Daniel, 104 Bixby, Patrick, 383 cosmopolitanism, 12, 56, 97, 101–4, 105, 165, Blanchot, Maurice 166–7, 169, 171 La folie du jour, 388 Coughlan, Patricia, 4 Blaney, Neil, 400, 410 Croce, Benedetto, 316 Blaney, Niall, 401 Cronin, Anthony, 379 Blanton, C. D., 380 Cronin, Michael, 10 Bluemel, Kristen, 274 Cuala Press, 3, 129, 130–1 Boland, Eavan, 278, 280, 297 Cuchulain, 3, 6, 17, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52–3, 55, 57, 68, Bornstein, George, 186 93, 187, 197, 219, 233 Boulter, Hugh, 44 Cunard, Nancy, 380 Bourdieu, Pierre, 21 Curran, Elizabeth, 374 Bourke, Angela, 147 Bourke, John D. Daiken, Leslie, 381 Czech Mate, 349 Dana, 166 Bowen, Elizabeth, 20, 103, 243, 252, 253–6, 258, Darwin, Charles, 201, 202 367, 373 Davis, Alex, 4, 295, 374 “The Back Drawing Room,” 254 Davis, Thomas, 102 “The Disinherited,” 254–5 Davison, Neil, 121 The Last September, 13, 253–4 Davitt, Michael, 46 Bowles, Patrick, 388 De Léis, Seosamh (Joe Lacey), 340 Brannigan, John, 13 De Valera, Eamon, 406 Breton, André, 388 Deane, Seamus, 3, 5, 203, 304, 389 British Empire, 227, 229, 358 Delany, Patrick, 412 Burke, Mary, 78, 79, 82 Devlin, Denis, 15, 57, 165, 292–3, 381 “Est Prodest,” 296 Capote, Truman, 36–37 “The Heavenly Foreigner,” 296 Other Voices, Other Rooms, 37 Lough Derg and Other Poems, 296–7 Cardiff, David, 334 Dillon, James, 411 Carlyle, Thomas, 45, 46, 48 Dillon, John, 204 Casanova, Pascale, 105, 111, 172 disability, 233–6 Castle, Gregory, 79, 90, 99, 105, 273 Dobbins, Gregory, 79 Catholic Church, 209, 211, 249, 370 Dowden, Edward, 98 Catholicism, 142–57, 250, 292–3, 294, 296, 305 Duffy, Charles Gavan, 8, 95 Céline, Louis-Ferdinand Duffy, Enda, 1, 9, 16 Journey to the End of Night, 385 Dujardin, Édouard, 125, 164 Celticism, 218, 348 Dun Emer Press, 3, 129–32 Clarke, Austin, 58, 249–51, 371–2, 374 Duthuit, Georges, 388 The Singing Men at Cashel, 250–1 Dwan, Lisa, 39–40 Cleary, Joe, 41, 42, 112, 121, 124, 244, 272 Coffey, Brian, 15, 57, 292–3, 294–5, 381 Eagleton, Terry, 3, 5, 11, 22, 68, 111, “Missouri Sequence,” 295 112 Death of Hektor, 295 Easter Rising, 17, 28, 53, 93, 135–6, 192, 197, 202, Cohen, Debra Rae, 343 230, 239, 244, 257, 304, 314, 358, 367, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 401, 416 “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” 31 1916 Jubilee celebrations, 396 Collini, Stefan, 100 Edgeworth, Maria, 277, 382 Collins, Lucy, 297 education, 44, 48–9, 52, 95, 100, 149 Collins, Michael, 262, 297 Edwards, Hilton, 168, 232 colonialism, 5, 21, 44, 49, 61, 103, 147, 149, 151, 213, Egerton, George, 9, 114, 117–20 221, 231, 387, 397 Keynotes, 117–20 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-17672-0 — A History of Irish Modernism Edited by Gregory Castle , Patrick Bixby Index More Information Index 421 Eglinton, John, 97, 101–2, 166 Gonne, Maud, 104, 152, 184, 276 Eisenstein, Sergei, 172 Gore-Booth, Constance, 163 Eliot, Thomas Stearns, 29, 38, 49, 154, 179, 195, Gore-Booth, Eva, 185 293, 294, 381 Gothic “East Coker,” 83 Irish, 7, 27–40 The Waste Land, 34, 37, 375 modernist, 27–8 Ellmann, Richard, 125, 203, 382 Gray, Eileen, 162, 173, 346, 359 Empson, William, 179 Gregory, Lady Augusta, 8, 46, 64, 65, 71, 74, 82, Esslin, Martin, 165 200, 221, 369 Esty, Jed, 240 “Our Irish Theatre,” 70 Expressionism, 172, 236, 238, 239, 316, 395 Cuchulain of Muirthemne, 52 in theatre, 231–3 Grene, Nicholas, 1, 8, 67 Griffith, Arthur, 97, 166, 174, 214–15 Fanon, Frantz, 6, 16, 49, 61 Grubgeld, Elizabeth, 302 Farelly, Agnes, 276 Guthrie, Tyrone, 330–1 Farrell, James T., 21, 271 Studs Lonigan, 14, 269–71 Hall, Kenneth, 348, 349, 373 Fay, W. G., 87 Hamsun, Knut, 120 feminism, 282 Hand, Derek, 1, 12, 243 Fenianism, 148, 210, 222 Hanley, James, 271–2 Fillmore, Charles, 362 Hanlon, Fr Jack, 349 Ford, John, 14, 262–3, 266–8 Hanly, Daithi, 406, 407 The Grapes of Wrath, 268 Hardy, Thomas, 28, 31 The Informer, 262–8 Harvey, Frank, 372, 377 The Plough and the Stars, 266, 267 Heaney, Seamus, 297, 302 The Quiet Man, 266 Heap, Jane, 198 Forster, E. M., 320 Henry, Paul, 348 Howards End, 5 Heseltine, Nigel, 373 Foster, Roy, 179 Higgins, Aidan, 389 Foucault, Michel, 409, 410 historiography, 36, 46–8, 191, 383 Frazier, Adrian, 121, 266 feminist, 284–6, 287, 288 Freud, Sigmund, 363 imperialist, 48 Friel, Brian in architecture, 399 Translations, 122 modernist, 46 Frow, John, 68, 354, 355 revisionist, 51 Fuller, Buckminster, 399 Hogarth Press, 381 Hone, Evie, 19, 349, 358, 383 Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), 215, 222 Hughes, Langston, 228 Gaelic League, 120, 314 Hurston, Zora Neale, 228 Gallagher, James, 410 Hutchins, Patricia, 350, 358 Garrison, Alisia, 388 Hutchinson, John, 50 gCopaleen, Myles na (Flann O’Brien), 326, 358 Hutton, Clare, 10, 92, 96, 139 gender, 35, 39, 118, 121, 142, 150, 152, 213, 218, 222, Huysmans, J.-K., 168 229, 230 Hyde, Douglas, 92, 93, 102, 128, 162, 276, gendered bodies, 235–6 343 masculinity, 211–12 “The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland,” 8, Genette, Gerard, 354 94, 100 Giacometti, Alberto, 171 Casadh an tSúgáin, 66 Gibbons, Luke, 2, 19 Hyde, H. Montgomery, 335–7 Gibney, Arthur, 414 Gibson, Andrew, 55, 142, 216 Ibsen, Henrik, 119, 120, 124, 163 globalization, 13, 102, 172, 191 When We Dead Awaken, 164 global community, 17 Impressionism, 114, 115 global scale, 16 Inglis, Tom, 145 Gogarty, Oliver St. John, 170 IRA, 229, 239, 321 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-17672-0 — A History of Irish Modernism Edited by Gregory Castle , Patrick Bixby Index More Information 422 Index Iremonger, Valentin, 372 Keats, John, 81 Irish Constitution, 236 Kelly, Oisin, 406–7 Irish Exhibition of Living Art (IELA), 2, 19, 347, Kenner, Hugh 348–51, 357 The Pound Era, 164 Irish Free State, 247, 253 Kiberd, Declan, 257 Irish Literary Society, 94 Kiberd, Declan with P. J. Mathews Irish Literary Theatre, 64, 66, 67, 98, 120 Handbook of the Irish Revival An Anthology of Irish Cultural and Political James, William, 118 Writings 1891–1922, 4 Jameson, Fredric, 5, 79, 172, 379 Kilroy, Thomas, 78, 83 Jeffares, Norman, 190 Kincaid, Andrew, 416 Jellett, Mainie, 19, 294, 348, 349, 358, 383 Kinsella, John, 302–3, 307 Jewishness, 221, 222–3 New Poems, 306 Johansen, John M., 395 Nightwalker and Other Poems, 305–6 Johnston, Anna, 97 Peppercanister Press, 305 Johnston, Denis, 232 The Good Fight, 307 Johnston, Dillon, 296 The Táin, 307 Jolas, Eugene, 165 Kinsella, Thomas, 15 Jolas, Maria, 165 Kirkwood, Harriet, 350, 358 Jones, David, 304–5 Joyce, James, 1, 4, 5, 9, 62, 93, 105, 113, 124–5, 127, L’Estrange, Gerald, 411 145–6, 163, 191, 192, 198, 201, 203, 204, Lacey, Kate, 343 209, 247, 254, 261, 273, 276, 302, 351, Land Acts, 145, 209 381, 418 Land Wars, 209, 278 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 31, 36–7, Lane, Hugh, 162 40, 124, 142, 209–12, 276, 296 language, Irish, 308, 313–28 Dubliners, 121, 123, 124, 167, 171, 199 Gaeltacht, 313, 314,
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