Description
This open-access volume explores the reception of Graeco-Romano culture from Ireland's earliest medieval scholars such as Columbanus and John Scottus Eriugena to later writers including James Joyce, Seamus Heaney and Colm Tóibín. Migrations and classical antiquity have played a key interconnected role for successive centuries in the experiences of the Irish diaspora, in the articulations of those experiences, as well as in the influences of Irish classicism abroad. Throughout subsequent centuries ancient Greece and Rome were repeatedly evoked in literature, art, and historiographies associated with migrations as vehicles for the expression of varied political and cultural positions.
The chapters in this collection explore how the early Irish peregrini left their mark on continental scholarship; how the model of ancient Rome was coopted for political purposes; the ways in which Protestant writers adopted the notion of ancient Romanitas as a key to the British imperial project; and, finally, how the Catholics perceived ancient Rome as being subsumed into the universalism of the Roman Catholic Church. As such, this collection, the first of its kind, seeks to create a holistic overview of the distinctive cultural classical in Irish culture throughout the ages. What we learn is how deep articulations of migration through classical media have penetrated Ireland's diasporic culture.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Foreword (Mary McAleese, President of Ireland 1997-2011)
1. Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity (Isabelle Torrance, Aarhus University, Denmark)
Part One: Medieval Ireland: Historiographical Migrations and Transfers of Knowledge
2. Etymology, Graeco-Roman Mythology, and Hiberno-Latin Scholarship: Irish Migrant Scholars in the Pre-Carolingian and Carolingian Periods (Jason O'Rorke, Independent Scholar, Ireland)
3. Narratives of Migration as Origin Stories: A Comparative Study of Lebor Gabála Érenn 'The Book of Invasions of Ireland' and Late Antique Historiography (Pau Blanco Ríos, Cambridge University, UK)
4. Irish Identity, Stories of Migration, and Models from Graeco-Roman Antiquity (Maxim Fomin, Ulster University, UK)
5. Tracing a Macrobian Dragon from Old Irish to Old Norse (Mikael Males, University of Oslo, Norway)
Part Two: Early Modern Ireland: Politics of Travel and Exile
6. 'For others Pergamum has been overthrown; for me alone it still stands': Reflections on Conquest and Migration in Neo-Latin Histories of Ireland (Feliks Levin, Centre for Irish Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark)
7. The Ius Communicandi (Right to Travel) and the Irish Franciscans in the Seventeenth Century (Ian Campbell, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland)
8. Tiocfa Séasair clann Cholla 'The Caesar of Cholla's race will come': Exiles and Homecomings in Early Modern Gaelic Political Poetry (Gregory Darwin, Uppsala University, Sweden)
Part Three: Eighteenth-Century Voyages, Real and Imagined
9. Classicizing the Gaelic: Visual Classicism, Migration, and Irish Manuscript Culture (Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, University of Edinburgh, UK)
10. A Trip to the Moon by Mr. Murtagh McDermot (1727): Lucian, Swift, Migration Satire and Irish Politics (Isabelle Torrance, Aarhus University, Denmark)
11. Eachtra Ghiolla an Amaráin 'The Voyage of the Hostage to Misfortune': Virgil's Aeneid and Eighteenth-Century Irish Migrations (Pádraig Ó Liatháin, Dublin City University, Ireland)
Part Four: Gendered Experiences
12. John Hogan and the Male Nude in 1820s Rome (Ciarán Rua O'Neill, Aarhus University, Denmark)
13. A New Fidelity: Eavan Boland, Ovid, and Exile (Rosie Lavan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Part Five: Twentieth-Century Irish Odysseys
14. An Irish Odyssey: Autofiction and Tradition in Padraig de Brún's An Odaisé (Richard Martin, Stanford University, USA)
15. Readers on the Move: Migrant Subscribers to James Joyce's Ulysses (Ronan Crowley, Aarhus University, Denmark)
Part Six: Irish Classicism and the World Stage
16. The Global Afterlives of Joycean Classicism: Case Studies from Argentina and India (Kiron Ward, University of St. Andrew's, UK)
17. Migration and Exile in Seamus Heaney's Virgilian Pastoral (Rachel Falconer, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
18. Immigration, Classical Antiquity, and Diversity: Envoi (Isabelle Torrance, Aarhus University, Denmark)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
