TY - BOOK AU - O'Brien,Eugene ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - "Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse": negotiating texts and contexts in contemporary Irish studies T2 - Reimagining Ireland, AV - DA925 .O225 2009eb U1 - 941.5 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Peter Lang KW - National characteristics, Irish KW - Discourse analysis KW - Ireland KW - Civilization KW - In literature KW - In mass media KW - Intellectual life KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-203) and index; Introduction negotiating texts and contexts -- Ireland in theory: the influence of French theory on Irish cultural and societal development -- The ethics of translation: Seamus Heaney's Cure at Troy and Beowulf -- The body politic: the ethics of responsibility and the responsibility of ethics in Seamus Heaney's The burial at Thebes -- "You can never know women": framing female identity in Dubliners -- The return and redefinition of the repressed: postcolonial studies and "Eveline" in Dubliners -- "Inner émigr'(s)": Derrida, Heaney, Yeats and the hauntological redefinition of Irishness -- "Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse": Catholicism, deconstruction and postmodernity in contemporary Irish culture -- "Guests (geists) of the nation": a Heimlich (unheimlich) manoeuvre -- Global warnings: towards a deconstruction of the global and the local -- "T siad ag teacht": Guinness as a signifier of Irish cultural transformation; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10600345 ER -