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Bohemian Belfast and Dublin: Two Artistic and Literary Worlds, in the Work of Gerard Keenan (Studies in Irish Literature, Cinema and Culture)
James Gallacher (Author)
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Bohemian Belfast and Dublin: Two Artistic and Literary Worlds, in the Work of Gerard Keenan (Studies in Irish Literature, Cinema and Culture) - James Gallacher
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Synopsis "Bohemian Belfast and Dublin: Two Artistic and Literary Worlds, in the Work of Gerard Keenan (Studies in Irish Literature, Cinema and Culture)"
This significant new work redraws the lines of understanding around the literary networks of mid-to-late 20th Century Ireland, particularly between Dublin and Belfast. Such a direct and personal... Leer másThis significant new work redraws the lines of understanding around the literary networks of mid-to-late 20th Century Ireland, particularly between Dublin and Belfast. Such a direct and personal connection between the literary bohemia of Patrick Kavanagh and Flann OBrien, and the world of the Honest Ulsterman at the start of The Troubles has never previously been made.This book brings to light, for the first time, the creative writing of Gerard Keenan - better known by his pseudonym Jude the Obscure, under which he wrote a regular column for the influential Northern Irish periodical The Honest Ulsterman for over three decades. He was also a contributor to Lagan and Envoy, and to Kavanaghs Weekly.The fictionalised biographical nature of Keenans stories, written over the course of 40 years provides a unique depiction of Belfast as an artistic, literary and bohemian centre - a representation largely missing from popular and academic consciousness.Dr. Gallacher provides a major introduction as well as the texts of a series of Keenans unpublished biographical short stories. These are drawn from a significant cache of his private papers to which he holds exclusive access. They range in subject matter from accounts of his association with Dublins literary bohemia, particularly his tempestuous friendship with Flann OBrien and Patrick Kavanagh and his time as a contributor to Kavanaghs Weekly, to his role in the founding of the Belfast Arts Theatre.This material is supplemented by a small but significant selection of long forgotten work published by Keenan under his real name in the 1940s and 1950s. This facilitates a strong positioning of Keenan alongside several significant moments in Irish literary history. This is underpinned by the extensive critical introduction that defines both the perimeters of Keenans place within the Irish literary tradition, as well as establishing the corridors of connectivity through which his interaction with bohemian Dublin and subsequently The Honest Ulsterman were developed.The work offers explicit, thematic and stylistic connections between the two literary eras from the interplay between Keenans early work for Envoy and the unpublished material utilised and presented in the volume for the first time. In addition, a significant battery of personal letters between Keenan and the H.U editors, Michael Foley, James Simmons and Robert Johnstone is presented within the books introduction to highlight the extent to which the group sought to draw on and adapt the literary approaches of Kavanagh et al to facilitate a transcendence of the brutal realities of 1970s Belfast.This book is intended for scholars of both Irish literature and history, as well as those engaged in the study of peace building and conflict studies, given Keenans representation of Belfast as a city possessed of more than sectarian antagonism. The joint presentation of original literary fiction alongside a weighty academic introduction will appeal to those involved directly in the academic study of Irish culture, and those with a more general interest in the literature and history of 20th-Century Ireland.
