Eugene O’brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 4044608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eugene O’brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eugene |
| FAMILY NAME | O’brien |
| SIGNATURE | O’BRIEN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Limerick |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5970-967X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“No probs Kicker”
This essay analyses the early books in Paul Howard’s Ross O’Carroll-Kelly series: The Miseducation Years (2000), The Teenage Dirtbag Years (2001) and The Orange Mocha-Chip Frappuccino Years (2003), as well as a number of other books. It examines the very permissive style of parenting that is satirised by Howard as typical of the upper middle class, haute bourgeoisie of the affluent areas of South Dublin. It analyses a series of parent-child inter…
'Ave, pater, atque vale'
“Our world is interwoven”
This article examines Micheal O’Siadhail’s 2018 collection The Five Quintets. It offers a placement of this collection as inheriting the grand modernist narratives that poets like T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound set out in The Waste Land, Four Quartets and The Cantos. O’Siadhail’s complex poetic, thematic and stanzaic structures are examined, as are the detailed and expansive range of thinkers and writers who appear in his work. Each of the five quint…
Introduction
Rereading the Rising
This essay examines “Easter 1916,” by William Butler Yeats, focusing on the four questions near the end of the poem. It will argue that the original open grammatical structure of the questions has been closed off by the context, and critical reception, of the poem, and that they are now seen as largely rhetorical. This discussion will revisit this poem, from a presentist hermeneutic perspective, which will read these as real questions, and will t…
Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century
Confounding Lethe in the Moyola
This essay discusses Seamus Heaney’s ‘Route 110’, from Human Chain, as an example of life writing as embodied in the very specific genre of poetry. His use of Virgil’s Aeneid Book VI as a type of cultural unconscious is examined, and the connections between the two works are viewed as tesserae, which come together as type of mosaic. Heaney has described this poetic sequence as an attempt to translate parts of Book VI of the Aeneid. ‘Route 110’ is…
‘A Pause for Po-Ethics’
In this paper, I examine the connections between ethics and aesthetics in the writing of Seamus Heaney. Looking at Heaney’s neologism of ‘po-ethics’, I move through his poetry and especially his translation of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, entitled The Cure at Troy, and focus on his Fourth Irish Human Rights Commission Annual Human Rights Lecture: Writer & Righter, wherein he traces a number of strong connections between human rights workers and creati…
Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism
From Prosperity to Austerity
Seamus Heaney's regions
In what was, sadly, one of his last interviews, with Mark Carruthers in a book entitled Alternative Ulsters: Conversations on Identity, Seamus Heaney was asked the direct question as to how he woul
The Science Fiction Handbook
Book Review| January 01 2010 The Science Fiction Handbook The Science Fiction Handbook. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 360 pp. Cloth, $104.95, isbn: 978-1-4051-6205-0. Paperback, $27.42, isbn: 978-1-4051-6206-7. Booker, M. Keith Eugene O’Brien Eugene O’Brien Mary Immaculate College, Limerick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2010) 21 (2): 339–343. https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.21.2.0339 Views Ico…
Seamus Heaney
The epistemology of nationalism
This article poses a number of questions: Is nationalism an ideology, a philosophy, an epistemology or a faith? Is cultural nationalism a seminal constituent of nationalism in general, or is it just a subset of political nationalism? Is physical force an intrinsic constituent of nationalism, or does it arise as an effect of nationalism? Nationalism, as John Hutchinson points out, is generally seen as either political or cultural, and in this arti…
Introduction
The epistemology of nationalism
This article poses a number of questions: Is nationalism an ideology, a philosophy, an epistemology or a faith? Is cultural nationalism a seminal constituent of nationalism in general, or is it just a subset of political nationalism? Is physical force an intrinsic constituent of nationalism, or does it arise as an effect of nationalism? Nationalism, as John Hutchinson points out, is generally seen as either political or cultural, and in this arti…
The epistemology of nationalism
This article poses a number of questions: Is nationalism an ideology, a philosophy, an epistemology or a faith? Is cultural nationalism a seminal constituent of nationalism in general, or is it just a subset of political nationalism? Is physical force an intrinsic constituent of nationalism, or does it arise as an effect of nationalism? Nationalism, as John Hutchinson points out, is generally seen as either political or cultural, and in this arti…
Seamus Heaney
The Science Fiction Handbook
Book Review| January 01 2010 The Science Fiction Handbook The Science Fiction Handbook. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 360 pp. Cloth, $104.95, isbn: 978-1-4051-6205-0. Paperback, $27.42, isbn: 978-1-4051-6206-7. Booker, M. Keith Eugene O’Brien Eugene O’Brien Mary Immaculate College, Limerick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2010) 21 (2): 339–343. https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.21.2.0339 Views Ico…
From Prosperity to Austerity
Seamus Heaney's regions
In what was, sadly, one of his last interviews, with Mark Carruthers in a book entitled Alternative Ulsters: Conversations on Identity, Seamus Heaney was asked the direct question as to how he woul
Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism
‘A Pause for Po-Ethics’
In this paper, I examine the connections between ethics and aesthetics in the writing of Seamus Heaney. Looking at Heaney’s neologism of ‘po-ethics’, I move through his poetry and especially his translation of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, entitled The Cure at Troy, and focus on his Fourth Irish Human Rights Commission Annual Human Rights Lecture: Writer & Righter, wherein he traces a number of strong connections between human rights workers and creati…
Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century
Confounding Lethe in the Moyola
This essay discusses Seamus Heaney’s ‘Route 110’, from Human Chain, as an example of life writing as embodied in the very specific genre of poetry. His use of Virgil’s Aeneid Book VI as a type of cultural unconscious is examined, and the connections between the two works are viewed as tesserae, which come together as type of mosaic. Heaney has described this poetic sequence as an attempt to translate parts of Book VI of the Aeneid. ‘Route 110’ is…
Introduction
Rereading the Rising
This essay examines “Easter 1916,” by William Butler Yeats, focusing on the four questions near the end of the poem. It will argue that the original open grammatical structure of the questions has been closed off by the context, and critical reception, of the poem, and that they are now seen as largely rhetorical. This discussion will revisit this poem, from a presentist hermeneutic perspective, which will read these as real questions, and will t…
'Ave, pater, atque vale'
“Our world is interwoven”
This article examines Micheal O’Siadhail’s 2018 collection The Five Quintets. It offers a placement of this collection as inheriting the grand modernist narratives that poets like T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound set out in The Waste Land, Four Quartets and The Cantos. O’Siadhail’s complex poetic, thematic and stanzaic structures are examined, as are the detailed and expansive range of thinkers and writers who appear in his work. Each of the five quint…
“No probs Kicker”
This essay analyses the early books in Paul Howard’s Ross O’Carroll-Kelly series: The Miseducation Years (2000), The Teenage Dirtbag Years (2001) and The Orange Mocha-Chip Frappuccino Years (2003), as well as a number of other books. It examines the very permissive style of parenting that is satirised by Howard as typical of the upper middle class, haute bourgeoisie of the affluent areas of South Dublin. It analyses a series of parent-child inter…
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