Post-Ceasefire Antigones and Northern Ireland
| Autor: | Isabelle Torrance |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Torrance, Isabelle, O'Rourke, Donncha |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Classics and Irish Politics, 1916-2016 Torrance, I 2020, Post-Ceasefire Antigones and Northern Ireland . in I Torrance & D O'Rourke (eds), Classics and Irish Politics, 1916-2016 . Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 326-345 . |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780198864486.003.0017 |
| Popis: | This chapter traces the evocation of Antigone in the context of the Northern Irish conflict, from Conor Cruise O’Brien and Tom Paulin to the remarkable number Antigone plays which have appeared post-ceasefire but allude to the conflict and its legacy. The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heaney (2004) was inspired by the funeral of hunger-striker Francis Hughes in 1981. Ismene by Stacey Gregg (2006) responds to the sisters of Robert McCartney, who was brutally murdered by paramilitaries in 2005. Antigone (2008) by Owen McCafferty alludes to power-sharing and casts Creon as a soldier-turned-politician in ways that have contemporary political resonances. Norah by Gerard Humphreys (2018) portrays the sister of a fictional hunger-striker as an Antigone figure. The proliferation of dead bodies and the contested ownership of those bodies in all these plays show that Ireland is still dealing with the trauma of the conflict. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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