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Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature (Hardcover)
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Giraldus Cambrensis's twelfth century The History of the Conquest
of Ireland immortalized the Irish Queen Dervorgilla as the woman
who 'took advantage of the absence of her husband, and allowed
herself to be ravished, not against her will. . . For as Mark
Anthony and Troy are witnesses, almost all the greatest evils in
the world have arisen from women.' Blamed for the conquest of
Ireland, the story of Dervorgilla and her abductor Diarmuid Mac
Murrough would echo throughout literature by figures as varied as
U.S. President John Quincy Adams and James Joyce, whose citizen in
Ulysses would identify the two twelfth century figures as 'the
cause of all our misfortunes.' Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish
Literature offers the first book-length treatment of the literary
return to and reinterpretation of this twelfth century history by
twentieth century Irish writers. The set of modern Irish writers
explored in this book - W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, James Joyce, Sean
O'Faolain, Micheal Mac Liammoir, Brendan Behan and Jamie O'Neill
among other writers less known and outside of Ireland - returned to
and reinterpreted this medieval history, using it to disrupt the
received historical narrative, to reframe a range of present
conflicts and to invite alternate conceptions of the modern nation.
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