The Poetics of Migration in Contemporary Irish Poetry

This book offers fresh critical interpretation of two of the central tenets of Irish culture – migration and memory. From its starting point with the ‘New Irish’ generation of poets in the United States during the 1980s and concluding with the technologic

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THE POETICS OF MIGRATION IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH POETRY Ailbhe McDaid

New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature Series Editor Claire A. Culleton Department of English Kent State University Kent, OH, USA

New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature promotes fresh scholarship that explores models of Irish and Irish American identity and examines issues that address and shape the contours of Irishness and works that investigate the fluid, shifting, and sometimes m ­ ultivalent discipline of Irish Studies. Politics, the academy, gender, and Irish and Irish American culture, among other things, have not only inspired but affected recent scholarship centered on Irish and Irish American literature. The series’s focus on Irish and Irish American literature and culture contributes to our twenty-first century understanding of Ireland, America, Irish Americans, and the creative, intellectual, and theoretical spaces between. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14747

Ailbhe McDaid

The Poetics of Migration in Contemporary Irish Poetry

Ailbhe McDaid The Institute of Irish Studies University of Liverpool Liverpool, UK

New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature ISBN 978-3-319-63804-1 ISBN 978-3-319-63805-8  (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-63805-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017948315 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Martina Galvin, Hidden Spaces No. 2, 1993, oil on canvas, 123 × 135 cm. Image courtesy of Crawford Art Gallery, Cork Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

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