Isabelle Torrance, Professor of Classical Reception, Aarhus University,Donncha O'Rourke, Lecturer in Classics, University of Edinburgh
Isabelle Torrance is Professor of Classical Reception at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has published extensively on classical Greek literature, especially Greek tragedy, and its reception. From 2019-2024 she is Principal Investigator on the ERC-funded project Classical Influences and Irish Culture.
Donncha O'Rourke is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Edinburgh. He has published extensively on classical literature, especially Roman elegiac and didactic poetry.
1. Classics and Irish Politics: Introduction, Isabelle Torrance and Donncha O Rourke I. RECEPTION AND REJECTION OF THE CLASSICS IN IRELAND 2. The Use and Abuse of Classics: Thoughts on Empire, Epic, and Language, Declan Kiberd 3. Greece, Rome, and the Revolutionaries of 1916, Brian McGing 4. Classics in the Van of the Irish Revolt: Thomas MacDonagh, 'alien to Athens and Rome?', Eoghan Moloney II: LANGUAGE POLITICS 5. Translating into Irish from Greek and Latin in the Early Years of the Irish State, S?le N? Mhurch? 6. Classics through Irish at University College, Galway, 1931-1978, P?draic Moran 7. Dinneen's Irish Virgil, Fiachra Mac G?r?in 8. 'Irish is Latin improved by occidental vernacularity': Classics, Medievalism, and Cultural Politics in Myles na gCopaleen's Cruiskeen Lawn Columns, Cillian O Hogan III: BETWEEN SCHOLARSHIP AND LITERATURE 9. Abjection and the Irish-Greek Fir Bolg in Aran Island Writing, Arabella Currie 10. Sinn F?in and Ulysses: Between Professor Robert Mitchell Henry and James Joyce, Edith Hall 11. The Dark Road: Yeats and Oedipus, Chris Morash IV: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND CLASS 12. Not President in Ancient Greece: Wilde, Classicism, and Homosexuality in Modern Ireland, Eibhear Walshe 13. Trojan Women and Irish Sexual Politics, 1920-2015, Isabelle Torrance 14. Irish Didos: Empire, Gender, and Class in the Irish Popular Tradition to Frank McGuinness' Carthaginians, Siobh?n McElduff V: CLASSICAL POETRY AND NORTHERN IRELAND 15. Elegies for Ireland: W.B. Yeats, Michael Longley, and the Roman Elegists, Donncha O Rourke 16. Michael Longley's 'Ceasefire' and the Iliad, Maureen Alden 17. Post-Ceasefire Antigones and Northern Ireland, Isabelle Torrance VI: MATERIAL CULTURE AND (DE)COLONIALISM 18. Classicism in the Making of Commemorative Monuments in Newly Independent Ireland, Judith Hill 19. A Tale of Two Buildings: The Politics of Neoclassicism in Belfast and Dublin, Suzanne O Neill 20. Images from a Usable Past: The Classical Themes of Irish Coinage, 1928-2002, Christine Morris 21. Epilogue, Richard P. Martin Works Cited Index
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