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Ireland: Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory
This site and the work it contains proposes to address the salient issues of colonial discourse and post-colonial theory in relation to Ireland and its literature.
Ireland as a geographical space has been considered in its entirety in order to reflect the depth and convolution of its history within an imperial paradigm. These pages will reflect some aspects of writers attempts to confront the nature of the relationship that Ireland has with ‘others’ and also with its internal sense of ‘otherness’.
It would seem that Ireland has not always been given the same kind of scrutiny or even attention as commonwealth and former commonwealth countries have been afforded. Holding a unique position as Britain’s first and last ‘colony’ it presents itself as an intricicate subject area where the accepted models of colonial discourse and post-colonial theory may or may not apply.
- A Political Timeline of the Irish Colonial Experience
- Map Of Ireland
- Remembrance of Empire in the Nomenclature of Belfast Streets
- Going Beyond the Pale with William Trevor
- Sounding the Oirish: O'Brien versus Synge
- Louis MacNeice: Anomalous Displacement and Post-Colonial Identity
- Flann O'Brien, Dickens and Joyce: Form, Identity and Colonial Influences
- The Historical and Colonial Context of Translations
- History, Language and the Post-colonial question in Brian Friel’s Translations
- Theories of Post-Coloniality: Edward Said and Yeats
- 'But you are not jeffmute?' Ireland's Image Abroad
- Frantz Fanon and Cultural Nationalism in Ireland
- An Interview With Declan Kiberd: The Author of Inventing Ireland Responds to Questions (this page requires a sound card!)
- Annotated Bibliography
- Links To Related Websites
The Travellers
- The Travellers: Ireland's Ethnic Minority
- “Citizens of a kind”: An examination of newspaper articles on Travellers from the founding of the Irish State to the present day
- The fight for justice: The Barrett family of Galway
Visual Representations of the Famine
- Visual Representation: The Irish Famine of 1845-50
- Visual Representations: Selected and Annotated Bibliography
This project was completed under the direction of Dr Leon Litvack as a requirement for the MA degree in Modern Literary Studies in the School of English at the Queen's University of Belfast. The site is evolving and will include contributions from future generations of MA students on other writers and themes.
