UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS with
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Moving Worlds
A Journal of Transcultural Writings
Celebrating the diversity and richness of both local and global transcultural communities
Postcolonial Ireland
Volume 3 Number 1
Description
This issue considers a range of approaches to the ways in which Ireland is represented, imagined, located and theorized within a postcolonial framework. The articles and poetry contained reflect the tensions inherent in the Irish attempts at decolonization in the early twentieth century.
- Contents
EDITORIAL
- Stuart Murray & Fiona Becket, Postcolonial Ireland
ARTICLES
- Aidan Arrowsmith, Fantasy Ireland: The Figure of the Returnee
in Irish Culture
- Maeve Connolly, A Cause for Celebration? Festivals of Irish Film at
Home and Abroad
- Siobhán Holland, ‘Hel-lo; Hel-lo; Hel-lo’; The Uncertain Voice of
Patriarchy in John McGahern’s Fictions of the War of Independence
- Wei H. Kao, Emerging Nation, Debatable Canon(s): Irish Short
Story Anthologies in the Early Twentieth Century
- Declan Kiberd, Museums and Learning
- P.J. Mathews, Bridging the Gap between Enthusiasm and Competency:
Dialect and the Irish Language Revival
- Paul Murphy, The Myth of Benightedness after the Irish Renaissance:
The Drama of George Shiels
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Wise and Well-Spoken: Field Day Women
and Translation
- Aidan Arrowsmith, Fantasy Ireland: The Figure of the Returnee
POETRY
- Gerald Dawe, At Home, The Jazz Club, Strange Meeting,
The Middle of England, Room with a View, Fifty/Fifty
- Richard Dyer, Solve et Coagula, The Poetics of Space
- Brendan Kennelly, Children’s Hospital
- Gerald Dawe, At Home, The Jazz Club, Strange Meeting,
REVIEWS
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS