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Texts by Irish Women Poets

Berkeley, Sara,

Strawberry Thief
(Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press,
2005
).

The View from Here
(Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press,
2010
).

Boland, Eavan,

Collected Poems
(Manchester: Carcanet,
1995
).

In a Time of Violence
(Manchester: Carcanet,
1994
).

The Journey and Other Poems
(Galway: Arlen House,
1986
; Manchester: Carcanet, 1987).

The Lost Land
(Manchester: Carcanet,
1998
).

Outside History
(Manchester: Carcanet,
1990
).

Woman without a Country
(Manchester: Carcanet,
2014
).

Bourke, Eva,

Piano
(Dublin: Dedalus Press,
2011
).

Travels with Gandolpho
(Dublin: Dedalus Press,
2000
).

Bryce, Colette,

The Full Indian Rope Trick
(London: Picador,
2005
).

The Heel of Bernadette
(London: Picador,
2000
).

Self-Portrait in the Dark
(London: Picador,
2008
).

The Whole and Rain-domed Universe
(London: Picador,
2014
).

Byrne, Mairéad,

The Best of (What’s Left of) Heaven
(Baltimore, MD: Publishing Genius,
2010
).

Nelson and the Huruburu Bird
(Bray, Co. Wicklow: Wild Honey Press,
2003
).

Talk Poetry
(Oxford, OH: Miami University Press,
2007
).

Dorcey, Mary,

Moving into the Space Cleared by Our Mothers
(Galway: Salmon Press,
1991
).

Flynn, Leontia,

Drives
(London: Jonathan Cape,
2008
).

Groarke, Vona,

Flight
(Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press,
2002
).

Juniper Street
(Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press,
2006
).

Other People’s Houses
(Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press,
1999
).

Shale
(Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press,
1994
).

Spindrift
(Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press,
2009
).

X
(Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press,
2014
).

Hardie, Kerry,

A Furious Place
(Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press,
1996
).

McGuckian, Medbh,

The Book of the Angel
(Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press,
2004
).

Captain Lavender
(Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press,
1995
).

The Face of the Earth
(Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press,
2002
).

The Flower Master
(Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1982
; Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press, 1993).

Had I a Thousand Lives
(Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press,
2002
).

On Ballycastle Beach
(Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1988
).

Portrait of Joanna
(Belfast: Ulsterman Publications,
1980
).

Shelmalier
(Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press,
1998
).

Single Ladies: Sixteen Poems
(Devon: Interim Press,
1980
).

Venus and the Rain
(Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1984
; Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press, 1994).

Meehan, Paula,

Dharmakaya
(Manchester: Carcanet,
2000
).

The Man Who Was Marked by Winter
(Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press,
1991
).

Painting Rain
(Manchester: Carcanet,
2009
).

Pillow Talk
(Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press,
1994
).

Morrissey, Sinéad,

Between Here and There
(Manchester: Carcanet,
2002
).

There was Fire in Vancouver
(Manchester: Carcanet,
1996
).

Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan,

The Brazen Serpent
(Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press,
1994
).

The Girl Who Married the Reindeer
(Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press,
2001
).

The Magdalene Sermon
(Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press,
1989
).

The Second Voyage
(Dublin: Gallery Press,
1986
).

The Sun Fish
(Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press,
2009
).

O’Malley, Mary,

The Boning Hall: New and Selected Poems
(Manchester: Carcanet,
2002
).

The Knife in the Wave
(Galway: Salmon Press,
1997
).

Valparaiso
(Manchester: Carcanet,
2012
).

O’Sullivan, Leanne,

The Mining Road
(Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books,
2013
).

Walsh, Catherine,

City West
(Exeter: Shearsman,
2005
).

Idir Eatortha and Making Tents
(London: Invisible Books,
1996
).

Other Primary Sources

Bourke, Angela, et al.,

The Field Day Anthology of Irish Women’s Writing and Traditions
, 2 vols (Cork: Cork University Press,
2001
).

Bourke, Eva, and Borbála Faragó (eds),

Landing Places: Immigrant Poets in Ireland
(Dublin: Dedalus Press,
2010
).

Bushe, Paddy (ed.),

Voices at the World’s Edge: Irish Poets on Skellig Michael
(Dublin: Dedalus Press,
2010
).

Claire, Paula, ‘The Paula Claire Archive of Sound and Visual Poetry’, accessed May 12, 2014, www.paulaclaire.com.

De Angelis, Irene, and Joseph Woods (eds),

Our Shared Japan: An Anthology of Contemporary Irish Poetry
(Dublin: Dedalus,
2007
).

Deane, Seamus, Andrew Carpenter and Jonathan Williams (eds),

The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing
, 3 vols (Derry: Field Day Publications,
1991
).

Eliot, T. S.,

Collected Poems, 1909–1962
(London: Faber & Faber,
1963
).

Hartnett, Michael,

Ó Bruadair: Selected Poems of Dáibhi Ó Bruadair
(Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Press,
1985
).

Heaney, Seamus,

Death of a Naturalist
(London: Faber & Faber,
1966
).

New Selected Poems: 1966–1987
(London: Faber & Faber,
1990
).

Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996
(London: Faber & Faber,
1998
).

Howe, Susan, ‘Susan Howe at the Poetry Foundation’, accessed May 12, 2014, www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/susan-howe#about.

Joyce, James,

Finnegans Wake
(London: Faber,
1939
).

Kiberd, Declan, and Gabriel Fitzmaurice (eds),

An Crann Faoi Bláth/The Flowering Tree
(Dublin: Wolfhound Press,
1991
).

Kinsella, Thomas,

Another September
(Dublin: Dolmen Press; Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1962
).

Nightwalker and Other Poems
(Dublin: Dolmen Press,
1967
).

Poems from Centre City
(Dublin: Peppercanister,
1990
).

MacNeice, Louis,

Collected Poems
(London: Faber & Faber,
1979
).

Ó Lochlainn, Colm,

Irish Street Ballads
(London: Pan,
1978
).

O’Donoghue, Bernard,

Selected Poems
(London: Faber & Faber,
2008
).

Plath, Sylvia,

Ariel: The Restored Edition
(London: Faber & Faber,
2004
).

Rich, Adrienne,

The Fact of a Doorframe: Selected Poems 1950–2001
(New York: W.W. Norton,
2002
).

Sexton, Anne,

Live or Die
(New York: Houghton Mifflin,
1966
).

Twain, Mark,

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(London: Penguin,
2012
).

Wordsworth, William,

The Prelude: The Four Texts
(1798, 1799, 1805, 1850) (Harmondsworth: Penguin,
1996
).

Yeats, W. B.,

The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats
, vol. 1, The Poems (London: Simon & Schuster,
2010
).

Secondary Sources

‘1938 Ritz Cinema, Athlone, Co. Westmeath’, http://archiseek.com/2009/1938-ritz-cinema-athlone/.

Ahmed, Sara, ‘

Who Knows? Knowing Strangers and Strangerness
’,
Australian Feminist Studies
15.31 (
2000
), pp. 49–68.

Allen, Nicholas, ‘“

Each Page Lies Open to the Version of Every Other”: History in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’,
 
Irish University Review
37.1 (Spring/Summer
2007
), pp. 22–35.

Andrews, Elmer, ‘“Some Sweet Disorder” – The Poetry of Subversion: Paul Muldoon, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian’, in Gary Day and Brian Docherty (eds),

British Poetry from the 1950s to the 1990s: Politics and Art
(Basingstoke and New York: Macmillan/St Martin’s Press,
1997
), pp. 118–42.

‘Ann Lovett: The Story that Wouldn’t Remain Local’, Scannal, RTÉ 1 television documentary, produced by Sarah Ryder, 2004.

Archer, Nuala, ‘Nuala Archer on Blue Farm’,

Two Women, Two Shores: Poems by Medbh McGuckian and Nuala Archer
(Baltimore, MD: New Poets Series; Galway: Salmon Press,
1989
).

Armstrong, Charles, I.,

Figures of Memory: Poetry, Space, and the Past
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,
2009
).

Assmann, Aleida, and Linda Shortt (eds),

Memory and Political Change
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,
2012
).

Bachelard, Gaston,

The Poetics of Space
(Boston, MA: Beacon Press,
1994
).

Bainbridge, Charles, ‘The Great Escape’. Review of The Full Indian Rope Trick by Colette Bryce, Guardian, January 29, 2005, accessed November 23, 2014, www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jan/29/featuresreviews.guardianreview12.

Bal, Mieke,

Travelling Concepts in the Humanities
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
2002
).

Bal, Mieke, Jonathan Crewe and Leo Spitzer (eds),

Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present
(Hanover, NH: University Press of New England,
1999
).

Barnett, Clive, ‘

Ways of Relating: Hospitality and the Acknowledgement of Otherness
’,
Progress in Human Geography
29.1 (
2005
), pp. 5–21.

Baronian, Marie-Aude, Stephan Besser and Yolande Jansen (eds),

Diaspora and Memory: Figures of Displacement in Contemporary Literature, Arts and Politics
(Amsterdam: Rodopi,
2006
).

Barthes, Roland, ‘Semiology and the Urban’, in Mark Gottdreiner and Alexandros P. Logapoulous (eds),

The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics
(New York: Columbia University Press,
1986
), pp. 87–98.

Bartlett, Frederic,

Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1954
[1932]).

Batten, Guinn, ‘Boland, McGuckian, Ní Chuilleanáin and the Body of the Nation’, in Matthew Campbell (ed.),

The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2003
), pp. 169–88.

— ‘“

The World Not Dead After All”: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Work of Revival
’,
Irish University Review
37.1 (Spring/Summer
2007
), pp. 1–21.

Bear, Bethany, ‘

Writing within a Zone of Grace: Eavan Boland, Sacred Space, and the Redemption of Representation
’,
Contemporary Literature
54. 1 (Spring
2013
), pp. 77–108.

Beer, Ann, ‘

Medbh McGuckian’s Poetry: Maternal Thinking and a Politics of Peace
’,
Canadian Journal of Irish Studies
18.1 (July 1992), pp. 192–203.

Begnal, Michael, Review of Catherine Walsh’s City West, B’Fhiú an Braon Fola (June 2006), accessed February 7, 2012, www.mikebegnalblogspot.ie.

Beiner, Guy, ‘

Between Trauma and Triumphalism: The Easter Rising, the Somme, and the Crux of Deep Memory in Modern Ireland
’,
Journal of British Studies
46.2 (April 2007), pp. 366–89.

— ‘Commemorative Heritage and the Dialectics of Memory’, in Mark McCarthy (ed.),

Ireland’s Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Memory and Identity
(London: Ashgate,
2005
), pp. 55–69.

— ‘Modes of Memory: Remembering and Forgetting the Irish Rebellion of 1798’, in Oona Frawley (ed.), Memory Ireland, vol. 1, History and Modernity (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press,

2011
), pp. 66–82.

— ‘

Recycling the Dustbin of Irish History: The Radical Challenge of “Folk Memory
”’,
History Ireland
14. 1 (January/February 2006), pp. 42–7.

Benjamin, Walter, ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’, in Hannah Arendt (ed.),

Illuminations
, trans. Harry Zohn (London: Fontana,
1992
).

Bergvall, Caroline, ‘

No Margins to this Page: Female Experimental Poets and the Legacy of Modernism
’,
Fragmente
5 (
1993
), pp. 30–8.

Bew, Paul, and Gordon Gillespie (eds),

Northern Ireland: A Chronology of the Troubles, 1968–99
(Dublin: Gill & Macmillan,
1999
).

Blakeman, Helen, ‘“

I am listening in black and white to what speaks to me in blue”: Medbh McGuckian, interviewed by Helen Blakeman
’,
Irish Studies Review
11.1 (
2003
), pp. 61–9.

Blau DuPlessis, Rachel, ‘Considering the Long Poem: Genre Problems’, Readings: Response and Reactions to Poetries, 4 (2008), accessed February 17, 2012, www.bbk.ac.uk/readings/issues/issue4/duplessis_on_Consideringthelongpoemgenreproblems.

Boland, Eavan, ‘

Daughters of Colony: A Personal Interpretation of the Place of Gender Issues in the Postcolonial Interpretation of Irish Literature
’,
Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies
32.2/3 (Summer/Autumn
1997
), pp. 9–20.

A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet
(Manchester: Carcanet,
2011
).

A Kind of Scar: The Woman Poet in a National Tradition
(Dublin: Attic Press,
1989
).

Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time
(London: Vintage,
1995
).

‘A Woman Without a Country: A Detail
’,
PN Review
41.2 (November/December 2014), p. 49.

Bort, Eberhard (ed.),

Commemorating Ireland: History, Politics, Culture
(Dublin: Irish Academic Press,
2004
).

Bourke, Angela, et al.,

The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing
, vols 4 and 5, Irish Women’s Writing and Traditions (Cork: Cork University Press,
2002
).

Brearton, Fran, Review of Parallax, Guardian, September 6, 2013, accessed January 25, 2014, www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/06/parallax-sinead-morrissey-review.

Broom, Sarah,

Contemporary British and Irish Poetry: An Introduction
(Basingstoke and New York: Macmillan,
2006
).

— ‘McGuckian’s Conversations with Rilke in Marconi’s Cottage’,

Irish University Review
28.1 (Spring/Summer
1998
), pp. 33–50.

Burgess, Glyn S., and Clara Strijbosch,

The Legend of St Brendan: A Critical Bibliography
(Dublin: Royal Irish Academy,
2000
).

Caruth, Cathy,

Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History
(Baltimore, MD and London: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1996
).

Carville, Conor, ‘Warding off an Epitaph’: Had I a Thousand Lives, in Shane Alcobia-Murphy and Richard Kirkland (eds),

The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian: The Interior of Words
(Cork: Cork University Press,
2010
), pp. 117–29.

Clutterbuck, Catriona, ‘

The Artistry of Freefall
’. Review of Dharmakaya, Metre 10 (Autumn
2001
), pp. 110–14.

— ‘A Gibbous Voice: The Poetics of Subjectivity in the Early Poetry of Medbh McGuckian’, in Shane Alcobia-Murphy and Richard Kirkland (eds),

The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian: The Interior of Words
(Cork: Cork University Press,
2010
), pp. 41–67.

— ‘

Irish Critical Responses to Self-Representation in Eavan Boland, 1987–1995
’,
Colby Quarterly
35.4 (
1999
), pp. 275–87.

— ‘New Irish Women Poets: The Evolution of (In)determinacy in Vona Groarke’, in Fran Brearton and Alan Gillis (eds),

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry
(Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2012
), pp. 651–67.

Collins, Lucy, ‘Architectural Metaphors: Representation of the House in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Vona Groarke’, in Scott Brewster and Michael Parker (eds),

Irish Literature since 1900: Diverse Voices
(Manchester: Manchester University Press,
2008
), pp. 142–59.

— ‘Being in Span: The Space of the Subject in Catherine Walsh’s City West’,

Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry
5.2 (
2014
), pp. 31–46.

— ‘

Emergent Ground: Four Poems by Vona Groarke
’,
Irish University Review
43.2 (Autumn/Winter
2013
).

— ‘Joyful Mysteries: Language and Spirituality in Medbh McGuckian’s Recent Poetry’, in Elke d’Hoker, Raphaël Ingelbien and Hedwig Schwall (eds),

Irish Women’s Writing
(Berne: Peter Lang,
2010
), pp. 41–56.

— ‘

A Way of Going Back: Memory and Estrangement in the Poetry of Paula Meehan
’,
An Sionnach: A Journal of Literature, Culture and the Arts
5.1–2 (Spring/Fall
2009
), pp. 127–39.

— ‘What She Lost and How: Eavan Boland’s London Childhood’, in Thomas Herron (ed.),

Irish Writing London
, vol. 2, Post-War to the Present (London: Continuum,
2012
), pp. 33–46.

Colman, Anne Ulry, ‘Far from Silent: Nineteenth-Century Irish Women Writers’, in Margaret Kelleher and James H. Murphy (eds),

Gender Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Public and Private Spheres
(Dublin: Irish Academic Press,
1997
), pp. 203–11.

Conboy, Katie, ‘

Lays of the Land
’. Review of The Lost Land by Eavan Boland, and Meadowlands by Louise Gluck, Poetry Ireland Review 60 (Spring
1999
), pp. 96–9.

Conlon, James, ‘Cities and the Place of Philosophy’, in Sharon M. Meagher (ed.),

Philosophy and the City: Classic to Contemporary Writings
(New York: State University of New York Press,
1999
), pp. 199–209.

Connerton, Paul,

How Societies Remember
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1989
).

Consalvo, Deborah McWilliams, ‘

An Interview with Eavan Boland
’,
Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review
81.321 (Spring
1992
), pp. 89–100.

— ‘

An Interview with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
’,
Irish Literary Supplement
12.1 (
1993
), pp. 15–17.

Critchley, Simon,

Ethics–Politics–Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas and Contemporary French Thought
(London and New York: Verso,
1999
).

Cubitt, Geoffrey,

History and Memory
(Manchester: Manchester University Press,
1981
).

Davidson, Ian,

Ideas of Space in Contemporary Poetry
(London: Palgrave Macmillan,
2007
).

Davies, Alistair, and Alan Sinfield (eds),

British Culture of the Postwar: An Introduction to Literature and Society, 1945–1999
(London: Routledge,
2000
).

Davis, Alex, ‘

Deferred Action: Irish Neo-Avant-Garde Poetry
’,
Angelaki
5.1 (
2000
), pp. 81–93.

Dawe, Gerald, ‘Poetry as Commemoration’, in Eberhard Bort (ed.),

Commemorating Ireland: History, Politics, Culture
(Dublin: Irish Academic Press,
2004
), pp. 213–22.

De Angelis, Irene,

The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry
(London: Palgrave Macmillan,
2012
).

— ‘Sinéad Morrissey: Between Northern Ireland and Japan’, Journal of Irish Studies 20 (2005), accessed March 10, 2012, www.carcanet.co.uk.

Deane, Seamus (ed.),

The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing
, vols 1–3 (Derry: Field Day Publications,
1991
).

— ‘Wherever Green is Read’, in Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha and Theo Dorgan (eds),

Revising the Rising
(Derry: Field Day,
1991
), pp. 91–105.

Denman, Peter, ‘

Contexts of Irish Writing
’,
Irish University Review
21.1 (Spring/Summer
1991
), pp. 1–2.

Derrida, Jacques,

Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1998
).

Of Hospitality
, trans. Rachel Bowlby (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press,
1997
).

Docherty, Thomas, ‘Initiations, Tempers, Seductions: Postmodern McGuckian’, in Neil Corcoran (ed.),

The Chosen Ground: Essays on the Contemporary Poetry of Northern Ireland
(Brigend: Seren,
1992
), pp. 192–210.

Edkins, Jenny,

Trauma and the Memory of Politics
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2003
).

Elliott, Marianne,

Robert Emmet: The Making of a Legend
(London: Profile Books,
2003
).

Ellmann, Maud,

The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing and Imprisonment
(London: Virago Pres,
1992
).

Erll, Astrid, and Ansgar Nünning (eds),

Cultural Memory Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook
(New York and Berlin: Walter de Gruyter,
2008
).

Falci, Eric,

Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966–2010
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2012
).

Faragó, Borbála, ‘“

The Informant”, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
’,
Irish University Review
39.2 (Autumn/Winter
2009
), pp. 301–9.

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(Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press; Cork: Cork University Press,
2014
).

— ‘

Medbh McGuckian: The Angel in Two Parts
’,
European English Messenger
13.2 (Autumn
2004
), pp. 47–54.

Finch, Annie, ‘Coherent Decentering: Toward a New Model of the Poetic Self’, in Kate Sontag and David Graham (eds),

After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography
(Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press,
2001
), pp. 137–43.

Flynn, Leontia,

Reading Medbh McGuckian
(Dublin: Irish Academic Press,
2014
).

Fogarty, Anne, ‘“I was a voice”: Orality and Silence in the Poetry of Eavan Boland’, in Elke D’hoker, Raphaël Ingelbien and Hedwig Schwall (eds),

Irish Women Writers: New Critical Perspectives
(Berne: Peter Lang,
2011
), pp. 7–24.

Frawley, Oona, Memory Ireland, vol. 1, History and Modernity (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press,

2011
).

Memory Ireland
, vol. 2, Diaspora and Memory Practices (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press,
2012
).

Memory Ireland
, vol. 3, The Famine and the Troubles (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press,
2014
).

Freud, Sigmund,

The Uncanny
, trans. David McLintock (London: Penguin,
2003
).

Gibbons, Luke, ‘“Where Wolfe Tone’s Statue Was Not”: Joyce, Monuments and Memory’, in Ian McBride (ed.),

History and Memory in Modern Ireland
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2001
), pp. 139–59.

Gillis, John R., ‘Memory and Identity: The History of a Relationship’, in John R. Gillis (ed.),

Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
1994
), pp. 3–24.

Gilroy, Paul, ‘Diaspora and the Detours of Identity’, in Kay Woodward (ed.),

Identity and Difference
(London: Sage,
1997
), pp. 299–343.

González-Arias, Luz Mar, ‘

In Dublin’s Fair City: Citified Embodiments in Paula Meehan’s Urban Landscapes
’,
An Sionnach: A Journal of Literature, Culture and the Arts
5.1–2 (Spring/Fall
2009
), pp. 34–49.

Goodby, John,

Irish Poetry since 1950: From Stillness into History
(Manchester: Manchester University Press,
2000
).

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The City and the Sign
(New York: Columbia University Press,
1986
).

Grennan, Eamon, ‘Mazing McGuckian’,

Facing the Music: Irish Poetry in the Twentieth Century
(Omaha, NE: Creighton University Press,
1999
), pp. 351–60.

— ‘Real Things: The Work of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’,

Facing the Music: Irish Poetry in the Twentieth Century
(Omaha, NE: Creighton University Press,
1999
), pp. 283–95.

Grubgeld, Elizabeth, ‘

Topography, Memory, and John Montague’s “The Rough Field
”’,
Canadian Journal of Irish Studies
14.2 (January 1989), pp. 25–36.

Gubbins, Martin, ‘Time and Visual Poetry’, PORES 3, accessed February 12, 2012, www.pores.bbk.ac.uk/3/gubbins.html.

Guinness, Selina, ‘“The Annotated House”: Feminism and Form’ in Justin Quinn (ed.),

Irish Poetry After Feminism
(Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe,
2008
), pp. 69–79.

Haberstroh, Patricia Boyle,

The Female Figure in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Poetry
(Cork: Cork University Press,
2013
).

— ‘

Interview with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’,
 
Canadian Journal of Irish Studies
20.2 (December 1994), pp. 63–74.

— ‘

Interview with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
’,
Irish University Review
37.1 (Spring/Summer
2007
), pp. 36–49.

— (ed.),

My Self, My Muse: Irish Women Poets Reflect on Life and Art
(Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press,
2001
).

Halbwachs, Maurice,

The Collective Memory
, trans. Francis J. Ditter and Vida Yazdi Ditter (New York: Harper Colophon Books,
1980
).

Heaney, Seamus, ‘

The Poet Who Came Back
’,
Belfast Telegraph
, November 23, 1971.

Hess, Lawrence, ‘St Margaret of Cortona’,

The Catholic Encyclopaedia
, vol. 9 (New York: Robert Appleton Company,
1910
).

Hewison, Robert,

In Anger: Culture in the Cold War 1945–60
(London: Methuen,
1988
).

Hipp, Shannon, ‘“

Things of the Same Kind are Separated Only by Time”: Reading the Notebooks of Medbh McGuckian
’,
Irish University Review
39.1 (Spring/Summer
2009
), pp. 130–48.

Hirsch, Marianne, and Valerie Smith, ‘

Feminism and Cultural Memory: An Introduction
’,
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
28.1 (
2002
), pp. 3–12.

Hobsbawm, Eric, and Terence Ranger (eds),

The Invention of Tradition
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1983
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