Eóin Flannery
Biographic Data
| ID | 214294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eóin Flannery |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eóin |
| FAMILY NAME | Flannery |
| SIGNATURE | FLANNERY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5123-6708 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sounding the Anthropocene in the Poetry of Ciaran Berry
The essay focuses on the “anthropocene poetics” of the Irish poet, Ciaran Berry. A selection of poems from Berry’s first two collections are addressed: “For the Birds” and “Electrocuting an Elephant” from The Sphere of Birds (2008), and “The Dead Zoo”, “Darwin in the Galapagos” and “Polar Bear” from The Dead Zoo (2013). Those works are read in terms of their poetic engagement with what David Farrier terms “anthropocene poetics”, a poetics that me…
Form, Affect and Debt in Post-Celtic Tiger Irish Fiction
Based on readings of the most provocative voices in contemporary Irish writing, this book explores how these authors have engaged with the events of Ireland’s recent economic ‘boom’ and the demise of the Celtic Tiger period, and how they have portrayed the widespread and contrasting aftermaths. Drawing upon economic literary criticism, affect theory in relation to shame and guilt, and the philosophy of debt, this book offers an entirely original …
Introduction
Re-staging the 1916 Rising
The essay addresses one of Eugene McCabe’s lesser-known works, the drama, Pull Down a Horseman, which was first performed in 1966 as part of the cultural wing of the fiftieth anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. The play is based on a secret three-day meeting held by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly in the lead-up to the April rebellion, and it captures some of the intractable divisions that obtained between the political visions of the two re…
Debt, guilt and form in (post-) Celtic Tiger Ireland
The paper will look at two Irish literary texts from the mid-1990s up to the present day, and will read these texts in terms of their dramatisation of the politics of debt and guilt. Attention will be given to how different literary genres narrated debt and guilt in Irish society under the sway of the globalised Celtic Tiger economy. An analysis of Denis O’Driscoll’s poem, ‘The Celtic Tiger’ will be presented first of all, as the poem is instruct…
Bildung and Temporality in Justin Quinn’s Mount Merrion
The article focuses on the ways in which genre, narrative and time intersect in readings of cultural responses to both the global economic crash of 2008 and the implosion of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger debt economy. Justin Quinn’s employment of an iteration of the bildungsroman in Mount Merrion (2013) is telling in the context of the demise of the Irish economic “boom”, given that it references one of the classic realist narrative forms through which …
Finance and fiction in Deirdre Madden’s Time Present and Time Past
The article addresses Deirdre Madden’s Time Present and Time Past as a response to the demise of the Celtic Tiger economy in Ireland. Primary among the article’s concerns are the ways in which Madden deals with issues such as debt and the uncanny; literary realism; the relationship between past, present and future; and the redemptive agency of the artistic imagination. Each of these preoccupations is situated within a broader international critic…
Ecocriticism
This chapter reviews publications in the field of ecocriticism published in 2015. The material under consideration deals with climate change fiction, contemporary poetry and literary fiction, narratology, gender studies, and the role of the humanities within current global climate change debates. The chapter is divided into three sections: 1. Introduction; 2. The Anthropocene; 3. Econarratology, Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Animal Studies. The r…
Ireland and Ecocriticism
This book is the first truly interdisciplinary intervention into the burgeoning field of Irish ecological criticism. Providing original and nuanced readings of Irish cultural texts and personalities in terms of contemporary ecological criticism, Flannery’s readings of Irish literary fiction, poetry, travel writing, non-fiction, and essay writing are ground-breaking in their depth and scope. Explorations of figures and texts from Irish cultural an…
Ecocriticism
This chapter reviews publications in the field of ecocriticism published in 2013 and 2014. The material under consideration deals with modernist literature, contemporary poetry and literary fiction, visual culture, the history of philosophy, gender studies, and the role of the humanities within current global climate change debates. The chapter is divided into five sections, which, in sequence cover: 1. The Posthuman and Ecofeminism; 2. Animal St…
‘The buried life’
So many destinations in one place’
Postcolonial passages
This essay examines two recent cinematic productions from France and Ireland, respectively: Michael Haneke’s Hidden and Alan Gilsenan’s Zulu 9. These two films are considered comparatively in terms of migration, postcolonial identity and global capital. But the essay also focuses on how the formal features of the two cinematic, visual texts act and interact with the primary thematic concerns cited above. Thus, the essay foregrounds technical form…
Cultural perspectives on globalisation and Ireland
Eamon Maher, Bern, Peter Lang, 2009, 245 pp., £32.00 (paperback), ISBN 9783039118519 Cultural Perspectives on Globalisation and Ireland is the fifth publication in Peter Lang's new and commendable
Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
Book Review| January 01 2010 Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction. Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2008. 183 pp. Paperback, 24.95.Rieder, John Eóin Flannery Eóin Flannery Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2010) 21 (1): 180–183. https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.21.1.0180 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twit…
Ireland, Empire and Utopia
This article is a response to Bill Ashcroft’s ‘Critical Utopias’, which appeared \nin this journal in 2007. In his earlier piece, Ashcroft offered a summary genealogy \nof the historical and literary historical links between Utopian Studies \nand Postcolonial Studies.While ‘CriticalUtopias’ was a salutary intervention \nin this discursive dialogue between these two fields; by including the Irish case \nthis article is designed as an extension to …
Ireland and Postcolonial Studies
A pioneering study of the development of one of the key critical discourses in contemporary Irish studies, this book covers all the major figures, publications and debates within Irish postcolonial cr
International Human Rights Law in an African Context
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLawrence Schäfer© 2009Eóin Flannery© 2009John McCracken© 2009Marc Caldwell© 2009Simonne Horwitz© 2009Saul Dubow© 2009Shaun Milton© 2009
Rites of passage
This article deals with two novels by the Irish writer Colum McCann: Songdogs and This Side of Brightness. Reading the narratives of both texts through the work of anthropologist Victor Turner, the essay reveals how McCann's characters undergo processes of liminal experience, which occasion structural changes in their familial relationships and in their individual identity. Turner's work primarily focused on the ritual behaviours of tribal groups…
External Association
Reading in the Light of Reading in the Dark
Hopes and impediments
Ireland and Postcolonial Studies
A pioneering study of the development of one of the key critical discourses in contemporary Irish studies, this book covers all the major figures, publications and debates within Irish postcolonial cr
Introduction
Finance and fiction in Deirdre Madden’s Time Present and Time Past
The article addresses Deirdre Madden’s Time Present and Time Past as a response to the demise of the Celtic Tiger economy in Ireland. Primary among the article’s concerns are the ways in which Madden deals with issues such as debt and the uncanny; literary realism; the relationship between past, present and future; and the redemptive agency of the artistic imagination. Each of these preoccupations is situated within a broader international critic…
Reading in the Light of Reading in the Dark
Hopes and impediments
External Association
Rites of passage
This article deals with two novels by the Irish writer Colum McCann: Songdogs and This Side of Brightness. Reading the narratives of both texts through the work of anthropologist Victor Turner, the essay reveals how McCann's characters undergo processes of liminal experience, which occasion structural changes in their familial relationships and in their individual identity. Turner's work primarily focused on the ritual behaviours of tribal groups…
Ireland and Postcolonial Studies
A pioneering study of the development of one of the key critical discourses in contemporary Irish studies, this book covers all the major figures, publications and debates within Irish postcolonial cr
International Human Rights Law in an African Context
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLawrence Schäfer© 2009Eóin Flannery© 2009John McCracken© 2009Marc Caldwell© 2009Simonne Horwitz© 2009Saul Dubow© 2009Shaun Milton© 2009
Cultural perspectives on globalisation and Ireland
Eamon Maher, Bern, Peter Lang, 2009, 245 pp., £32.00 (paperback), ISBN 9783039118519 Cultural Perspectives on Globalisation and Ireland is the fifth publication in Peter Lang's new and commendable
Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
Book Review| January 01 2010 Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction. Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2008. 183 pp. Paperback, 24.95.Rieder, John Eóin Flannery Eóin Flannery Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2010) 21 (1): 180–183. https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.21.1.0180 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twit…
Ireland, Empire and Utopia
This article is a response to Bill Ashcroft’s ‘Critical Utopias’, which appeared \nin this journal in 2007. In his earlier piece, Ashcroft offered a summary genealogy \nof the historical and literary historical links between Utopian Studies \nand Postcolonial Studies.While ‘CriticalUtopias’ was a salutary intervention \nin this discursive dialogue between these two fields; by including the Irish case \nthis article is designed as an extension to …
So many destinations in one place’
Postcolonial passages
This essay examines two recent cinematic productions from France and Ireland, respectively: Michael Haneke’s Hidden and Alan Gilsenan’s Zulu 9. These two films are considered comparatively in terms of migration, postcolonial identity and global capital. But the essay also focuses on how the formal features of the two cinematic, visual texts act and interact with the primary thematic concerns cited above. Thus, the essay foregrounds technical form…
‘The buried life’
Ireland and Ecocriticism
This book is the first truly interdisciplinary intervention into the burgeoning field of Irish ecological criticism. Providing original and nuanced readings of Irish cultural texts and personalities in terms of contemporary ecological criticism, Flannery’s readings of Irish literary fiction, poetry, travel writing, non-fiction, and essay writing are ground-breaking in their depth and scope. Explorations of figures and texts from Irish cultural an…
Ecocriticism
This chapter reviews publications in the field of ecocriticism published in 2013 and 2014. The material under consideration deals with modernist literature, contemporary poetry and literary fiction, visual culture, the history of philosophy, gender studies, and the role of the humanities within current global climate change debates. The chapter is divided into five sections, which, in sequence cover: 1. The Posthuman and Ecofeminism; 2. Animal St…
Ecocriticism
This chapter reviews publications in the field of ecocriticism published in 2015. The material under consideration deals with climate change fiction, contemporary poetry and literary fiction, narratology, gender studies, and the role of the humanities within current global climate change debates. The chapter is divided into three sections: 1. Introduction; 2. The Anthropocene; 3. Econarratology, Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Animal Studies. The r…
Bildung and Temporality in Justin Quinn’s Mount Merrion
The article focuses on the ways in which genre, narrative and time intersect in readings of cultural responses to both the global economic crash of 2008 and the implosion of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger debt economy. Justin Quinn’s employment of an iteration of the bildungsroman in Mount Merrion (2013) is telling in the context of the demise of the Irish economic “boom”, given that it references one of the classic realist narrative forms through which …
Finance and fiction in Deirdre Madden’s Time Present and Time Past
The article addresses Deirdre Madden’s Time Present and Time Past as a response to the demise of the Celtic Tiger economy in Ireland. Primary among the article’s concerns are the ways in which Madden deals with issues such as debt and the uncanny; literary realism; the relationship between past, present and future; and the redemptive agency of the artistic imagination. Each of these preoccupations is situated within a broader international critic…
Debt, guilt and form in (post-) Celtic Tiger Ireland
The paper will look at two Irish literary texts from the mid-1990s up to the present day, and will read these texts in terms of their dramatisation of the politics of debt and guilt. Attention will be given to how different literary genres narrated debt and guilt in Irish society under the sway of the globalised Celtic Tiger economy. An analysis of Denis O’Driscoll’s poem, ‘The Celtic Tiger’ will be presented first of all, as the poem is instruct…
Form, Affect and Debt in Post-Celtic Tiger Irish Fiction
Based on readings of the most provocative voices in contemporary Irish writing, this book explores how these authors have engaged with the events of Ireland’s recent economic ‘boom’ and the demise of the Celtic Tiger period, and how they have portrayed the widespread and contrasting aftermaths. Drawing upon economic literary criticism, affect theory in relation to shame and guilt, and the philosophy of debt, this book offers an entirely original …
Introduction
Re-staging the 1916 Rising
The essay addresses one of Eugene McCabe’s lesser-known works, the drama, Pull Down a Horseman, which was first performed in 1966 as part of the cultural wing of the fiftieth anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. The play is based on a secret three-day meeting held by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly in the lead-up to the April rebellion, and it captures some of the intractable divisions that obtained between the political visions of the two re…
Sounding the Anthropocene in the Poetry of Ciaran Berry
The essay focuses on the “anthropocene poetics” of the Irish poet, Ciaran Berry. A selection of poems from Berry’s first two collections are addressed: “For the Birds” and “Electrocuting an Elephant” from The Sphere of Birds (2008), and “The Dead Zoo”, “Darwin in the Galapagos” and “Polar Bear” from The Dead Zoo (2013). Those works are read in terms of their poetic engagement with what David Farrier terms “anthropocene poetics”, a poetics that me…
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