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Authors: Declan Kiberd

18.
Edward Said,
Orientalism,
67.

19.
Ibid., 93, 272.

20.
Translations,
40.

21.
Ibid., 43.

22.
Ibid., 66.

23.
Ibid., 42.

24.
Ibid., 42.

25.
See especially some of the essays collected in
Celtic Revivals.

THIRTY-FOUR: TRANSLATING TRADITION

1.
Octavio Paz, "Translation: Literature and Letters",
Theories of Translation,
160.

2.
Jacques Derrida, "Des Tours de Babel",
Theories of Translation,
219.

3.
Macaulay,
Prose and Poetry,
722.

4.
Charles Trevelyan,
On the Education of the People of India,
London 1838, Chapter 2.

5.
William Jones,
A Grammar of the Persian Language,
London 1771, vii.

6.
Friedrich Nietzsche, "On the Problem of Translation",
Theories of Translation,
69–70.

7.
George Steiner,
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation,
London 1975, 321.

8.
On this see Declan Kiberd,
Synge and the Irish Language,
54–94.

9.
Renato Poggioli, "The Added Artificer",
On Translation,
ed. Reuben A. Brower, Harvard 1959, 142.

10.
See Dedan Kiberd, "George Moore agus an Ghaeilgr",
Idir Dhá Chultúr,
Dublin 1993, 129–30.

11.
Walter Benjamin,
Illuminations,
80.

12.
Godfrey Lienhardt, "Modes of Thought",
The Institutions of Primitive Society
Oxford 1961, 97.

13.
The image is from Benjamin's essay on translation.

14.
Marcel Proust,
Remembrance of Things Past,
Book 3, 903.

15.
Friedrich Nietzsche,
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life,
Trans. I. Ellis, Carbondale 1984, 35.

16.
Benjamin,
Illuminations,
257.

17.
Ibid., 259.

18.
Ibid., 70.

19.
See David Lowenthal,
The Past is a Foreign Country,
Cambridge 1985, 250.

20.
See Declan Kiberd, "Brian Friel's
Faith Healer", Irish Writers and Society at Large,
Gerrards Cross 1985, 106–21.

21.
Brian Friel,
Making History,
London 1989, 9.

22.
Ibid., 65.

23.
John Banville, with Ronan Sheehan and Francis Stuart, "Novelists on the Novel",
The Crane Bag,
Vol. 3, No. 1, 1979, 84.

24.
John Banville,
Doctor Copernicus: A Novel,
London 1976, 94.

25.
Banville, "Novelists on the Novel", 79–80.

26.
In conversation with the present writer, October 1985.

27.
Friedrich Schleiermacher, "On the Different Methods of Translating",
Theories of Translation,
46–7.

28.
Derrida,
Theories of Translation,
218–27.

29.
Banville,
Doctor Copernicus,
27.

THIRTY-FIVE: IMAGINING IRISH STUDIES

1.
Erasmus to Leo X, 1 February 1516, letter 384,
Correspondence,
3, 221–2.

2.
Said,
Orientalism,
328.

3.
Synge,
Prose,
60.

4.
R. F. Foster,
Modern Ireland 1600–1972,
London 1988, 453, 453.

5.
See, for instance, the strictures of Brendan Bradshaw, "Nationalism and Historical Scholarship in Modern Ireland",
Interpreting Irish History: The Debate on Historical Revisionism,
Dublin 1994, 191–216.

6.
See Kevin O'Neill, "Revisionist Milestone",
Interpreting Irish History,
217–21.

7.
Ronan Fanning (quoting Bernard Lewis), "The Great Enchantment: Uses and Abuses of Modern Irish History",
Interpreting Irish History,
156.

8.
J. J. Lee,
Ireland Politics and Society 1912–86,
390 ff.

9.
Crotty,
Ireland in Crisis,
Dingle 1986.

10.
Some hopeful trends are recorded by Alvin Jackson, "Unionist History",
Interpreting Irish History,
253–68.

11.
See Seamus Deane, "Remembering the Irish Future",
The Crane Bag
Vol. 8, No. 2, 1984, 81–92.

12.
Pádraig Ó Riagáin, Micheál Ó Gliasáin,
National Survey on Languages 1993:
Preliminary Report, Dublin 1994, esp. 5–15.

13.
Seán de Fréine,
The Great Silence,
esp. 61–74.

14.
Ibid., 144–6.

15.
Ibid., 188–90.

16.
A poll in
Sunday Independent in
late 1993 showed that almost 80% of the Republic's citizens had no wish to coerce unionists into a united Ireland.

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