A Nation, not A Parish
The Homewhere-s and Elsewhere-s of 1930s Irish Culture
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the editors
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword (José Francisco Fernández Sánchez)
- Introduction: (Re)Invention: The Ireland of the 1930s (Germán Asensio, Madalina Armie and Verónica Membrive)
- 1 A group of persons who regard themselves as ‘intellectuals’: Cinema-Going and Film Culture in Dublin of the 1930s (Ruth Barton)
- 2 ‘Wild FIeld to a Later Generation’: Irish Women Writers and the Global Literary Marketplace (Deirdre F. Brady)
- 3 Anti-fascism and the Gothic in the Work of Dorothy Macardle (1935–53) (Fiona Fearon)
- 4 Blanaid Salkeld’s Poetry of the 1930s: ‘peculiarly in and out of her time’ (Gráinne Condon)
- 5 The Sensual Moan of the Saxophone: The Soundscape of Irish Cosmopolitanism in the 1930s (Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin)
- 6 Circles of Solidarity: Irish Writers in Transnational Radical Networks in the 1930s (Katrina Goldstone)
- 7 The Rediscovery of Máirín Mitchell (Martin Tyrrell)
- 8 The Representation of Ireland in Peadar O’Donnell’s Salud! An Irishman in Spain (Alberto Lázaro)
- 9 Irish-Language Translation as Internationalism? Gilbert Parker’s The Right of Way and Séamus Ó Grianna’s An Bealach Achtuighthe (Máirtín Coilféir)
- 10 ‘Tell me something about Ireland and the Irish’: James Joyce and Italo and Livia Svevo, An International Friendship (Monica Paulis)
- Notes on the Editors
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
- Series index
A Nation, not A Parish The Homewhere-s and Elsewhere-s of 1930s Irish Culture
Germán Asensio Peral, Madalina Armie, Verónica Membrive (eds)
PETER LANG
Oxford - Berlin - Bruxelles - Chennai - Lausanne - New York
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Names: Asensio Peral, Germán, 1993- editor. | Armie, Madalina, 1991- editor. | Membrive, Veronica, 1984- editor.
Title: A nation, not a parish : the homewhere-s and elsewhere-s of 1930s Irish culture / Germán Asensio Peral, Madalina Armie, Verónica Membrive (eds.)
Description: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2025. | Series: Reimagining Ireland, 1662-9094 ; 138 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024047635 (print) | LCCN 2024047636 (ebook) | ISBN 9781803748481 (paperback) | ISBN 9781803748498 (ebook) | ISBN 9781803748504 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Arts, Irish--20th century. | Ireland--Intellectual life--20th century. | Ireland--Civilization--20th century. | Arts and society--Ireland--History--20th century. | Art and literature--Ireland--History--20th century.
Classification: LCC NX546.A1 N38 2025 (print) | LCC NX546.A1 (ebook) | DDC 700.9415/0904--dc23/eng/20241125
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We would also like to acknowledge the assistance provided by the Department of Philology, the English Studies Division of the University of Almeria, the Regional Government of Andalucía, Spain, for its support for this work as part of the project P20_00790 (PAIDI 2020). See chapters for individual author funding.
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ISSN 1662-9094
ISBN 978-1-80374-848-1 (print)
ISBN 978-1-80374-849-8 (ePDF)
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DOI 10.3726/b22474
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About the editors
Germán Asensio Peral is a lecturer at the University of Almería, Spain.
Madalina Armie is a lecturer at the University of Almería, Spain.
Verónica Membrive is a lecturer at the University of Almería, Spain.
About the book
As recent studies on the ‘London Irish’ and on the work of almost forgotten artists have revealed, there existed in the 1930s a vibrant appreciation and response to international politics and artistic innovations. Many Irish writers such as Kate O’Brien, Elizabeth Bowen, Sean O’Faolain, Liam O’Flaherty, to name but a few, felt at ease in this climate. Reconsidering Irish culture in the 1930s in light of recent critical work will further enhance an understanding of a decade of cultural production which, until the turn of the 21st century, was subjected to comparatively narrow interpretations. At a time when a fledgling democracy was being created in Ireland, the influence of these and other connections in the realm of culture cannot be underestimated. It is the major purpose of this book to rely on all these premises and rebuild the milieu of the 1930s by observing the dialogues between the homewhere-s and elsewhere-s where Ireland’s cultural legacy and cultural products have been shaped.
This eBook can be cited
This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.
In memoriam of Eibhear Walshe.
His kindness and generosity will always be remembered by those whose lives he touched.
Acknowledgements
Words cannot express our gratitude to our families for their unconditional support and love.
We offer our heartfelt thanks to our supervisor José Francisco Fernández Sánchez, who provided us with invaluable advice and feedback.
Additionally, this compilation of essays would not have been possible without the exceptional and thought-provoking contributions, and the hard work of each one of the authors. Thank you all for making this possible.
We would also like to acknowledge the assistance provided by the Department of Philology, the English Studies Division of the University of Almeria, the Regional Government of Andalucía, Spain, for its support for this work as part of the project P20_00790 (PAIDI 2020) - “PAIDI 2020 and PPIT-UAL, Junta de Andalucía- ERDF 2021-2027. Programme: 54.A”.
Last but not least, we would like to thank Professor Eamon Maher, editor of the Reimagining Ireland series, as well as senior editor Tony Mason at Peter Lang for their generous help along the publication process of this volume.
José Francisco Fernández Sánchez
Foreword
One of the authors discussed in the present volume of essays on art and literature in Ireland in the 1930s is Máirín Mitchell. In 1935, she published a book that is remarkable if only for what it conveys about Irish culture in this decade. In Traveller in Time Mitchell collected the travel articles that she had previously published in a number of journals. In order to bring some cohesiveness to this assortment of diverse writings, she created a fictional character, Colm MacColgan, a young Irishman who worked for a film studio in London, but who soon abandoned this occupation to travel around the continent in order “to hunt up places abroad of special Irish interest” (17). This enabled Mitchell to have the fictional MacColgan visit countries such as France, Spain, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, etc. in search of remnants and traces of the Irish diaspora. As Martin Tyrell writes in his essay on Mitchell, what is remarkable is the futuristic framing device that the author imagined, a huge television set by means of which Colm is able to project in a “Teleview Theatre” in London, in an imagined near-future, some years after Traveller in Time itself was published, a film of his journeys around Europe. This new invention, Colm claims at the end of the book, should be considered “another achievement for my country” (293), to be added to previous (and, it is implied, unacknowledged) technical developments made by Irish people.
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