Inventing Ireland (97 page)

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Authors: Declan Kiberd

loses critical edge

see also

Richards, I. A.

Robinson, Lennox

Robinson, Mary

Rodgers, W. R.

Roman Catholicism

effect of
Ne Temere
decree

and bishops

Yeats on folk spirituality

and Protestantism

in art

Synge on clergy

Mother and Child crisis

and Pope John XXIII

Pope Paul VI and contraception

radical elements in

and Ó Ríordáin

and Kinsella

and Heaney

and Bolger

and revisionism

and national identity

Romans

romantic lyric

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Rose, Richard

Rose of Lima, Saint

'Ross, Martin',
see
Martin, Violet

Rossa, Jeremiah O'Donovan

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Rothenstein, William

Rouault (painter)

'Christ Crowned with Thorns'

Round Table

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Roxborough House

Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)

'B-Specials'

Rugby school

Rushdie, Salman

Imaginary Homelands

on hybridity

Midnight's Children

Ruskin, John

Russell, Bertrand

Russell, George ('AE')

on nationality versus cosmopolitanism

on imperialism

advised by Yeats

compares 1916 Rising and Great War

and American writers

eastern mysticism

emigrates

on dangers of revolutionary spirit

questions visions

and East

and pastoralism

mocked by Beckett

Russian Revolution

Ryan, W. P.

Said, Edward W.

Saint Enda's College

Samhain
(theatrical magazine)

Sanger, Margaret

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Words

Anti-Semite and Jew

Sassoon, Siegfried

satire

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Scott, Walter

secularization

self-invention

Senghor, Leopold

Sennett, Richard

separatism

Shakespeare, William

Henry the Fifth

Two Gentlemen of Verona

Richard the Second

Merchant of Venice

Hamlet

Othello

King Lear

The Winter's Tale

The Tempest

Shaw, Father Francis

Shaw, George Bernard

on agrarian reforms

on Anglo-Irish images

and socialism

on Land Acts

predicts neocolonial future

on 'liberal' imperialism

a Celticist critique of Celticism

on imperial mindset

magic realism as alternative

as social visionary

self-cancelling prescriptions

on Wilde

on Yeatsian revivalism

on British

on English censorship of Wilde

on Easter Rising

on Yeats's rejection of
Silver Tassie

criticism of English

criticised by de Valera

on Ireland and India

on Trinity College Dublin

as jester

and fatherhood

'GBS'

on education

on Protestantism

on northern Protestants

and Burke

and religion

art as biography

childhood and religion

Joan of Arc

androgyny

against specialist priesthood

and saintliness

on republicanism

on disobedience as progress

on prisons

on heretics

Protestant-nationalist connection

on peasant proprietors

Synge confirms Shaw's diagnosis of rural Ireland

effects of Land Acts

on Irish Question

and Friel's
Translations

on Home Rule for England

Arms and the Man

Mrs Warren's Profession

John Bull's Other Island

Saint Joan

Shaw, George Carr

Sheehy, Father

Sheehy-Skeffington, Francis

Sheehy-Skeffington, Hanna

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

The Cenci

Sheridan, Jim

My Left Foot
(film)

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

shoneens (seoinini)

Shyamaji

Sidney, Sir Philip

Silone, Ignazio

Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin courts

Provisional Sinn Féin

see also

Simpson, Alan

Skinnider, Margaret

slang

slavery

Smith, Adam

Smyllie, R. M.

Smyth, Revd Martin

Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)

'Soldier's Song'

Somalia

Somerville, Edith

compared with Elizabeth Bowen

on her suitor Hubert Greene

her mother's verdict on
Real Charlotte

on marginalization of women

as ironist

novelistic technique

on destiny of Ireland

on role of women

ill-fated love affair

on female friendship

President of Munster Women's Franchise League

on contemporary writers

The Real Charlotte

see also
Martin, Violet

Sophocles

Southey, Robert

spalpeen (spailpín)

Special Powers Act (Northern Ireland)

Spender, Stephen

Spenser, Edmund

View of the Present State of Ireland

stage Englishman

stage Irishman

stage Gael

stage writer

Stalker, John

Stanley, explorer

Stanyhurst, Richard

Steiner, George

After Babel

Stephens, James

stereotype

Stern, Erich

Stevens, Wallace

Stoker, Bram

Stormont, parliamentary house of Northern Ireland

Stratford Theatre, London

Stuart, Francis

Black List Section H

style

suffragism

Sunday People
, newspaper

Supreme Court (Irish Republic)

surrealism

Swedish language

Sweeney, king

Swift, Jonathan

Drapier's Letters

A Modest Proposal

Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Synge, John Millington

dialect

Aran

on educational reforms

on colonial culture

on violence

on scapegoating

Pearse on

and religion

influence on Yeats

on Aran islands

distinguished from Lady Gregory

on island modernization

death of Gaelic culture

on Hiberno-English

as radical

as ascendancy eavesdropper

gender reversals

and Gaelic poetic tradition

use of Hyde's
Love Songs

frustration of liberationist aims

riots

on androgyny and integration

stage Irishry criticised

O'Casey as heir to

later productions of
Playboy

on Elizabethan English

cynical about revivalism

'reality and joy'

and islanders

antipastoralism

tradition and modernity

art as collaboration

influence of Wilde

parodied by Joyce

and anti-Oedipus

on Catholic philistines

handling of religious themes

Yeats's praise of

on big house decline

on peasant penury

Synge-song influences O'Casey

as island Utopian

attitude to capital punishment

and Behan's idiom

and tramp figure

compared to Heaney

influence on Friel

translation and art

and Céitinn

and Gaelic syntax

on Ireland as exceptional case

on lack of readers in Ireland

The Shadow of the Glen

Riders to the Sea

The Well of the Saints

The Tinker's Wedding

The Playboy of the Western World

riots at

compared with
Plough
riots

Deirdre of the Sorrows

Collected Poems

'The Curse'

'Queens'

'Passing of the Shee'

The Aran Islands

Tagore, Rabindranath

The Post Office

Gitanjali

Táin

tally-stick

tax-holiday for artists

Tel-el-Kebir

Tenniel, Sir John

Thackeray, William Makepeace

Thatcher, Margaret

Theosophists

Thermidor

Thomas, Dylan

Thomas Aquinas, Saint

Thompson, Francis

Thomson, George (Seoirse MacThomáis)

Thoreau, Henry David

Walden

Thornton, Weldon

Tilak, Lokmanya

Time
(magazine)

Times, The
(London)

Tír na nÓg (Land of Young)

Titbits

Titley, Alan

Tone, Theobald Wolfe

tourism

translation

travellers

Treblinka

Trevelyan, Charles

Trevor, William

Trilling, Lionel

Sincerity and Authenticity

Beyond Culture

Trinity College Dublin

Trollope, Anthony

Tunisia

Twain, Mark

Tynan, Kenneth

U2

Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)

unconscious

underdevelopment

unionism

Loyal Orange Association

unionists on Easter Rising

future of unionism

Unionist Party

United Irishman

United Irishmen

United Nations

United States

University College Dublin

Upanishads

urbanization

Utopia

Vatican

Second Vatican Council

vers libre

Victoria, Queen

Victorianism

on Gaelic Victorianism

Vienna

Viking power

Virgil

Virgin Maty

Viswanathan, Gauri

Vogelweide, Walter Von der

Vorster, B. J., south African minister

Walkley, A. B.

War of Independence

Warner, Marina

Washington, George

Weber, Max

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Weil, Simone

Weimar culture

Wells, H. G.

Welsh language

'west Britons'

West Indies

Westminster (House of Commons)

(House of Lords)

Whitaker, T. K

Whitaker, Thomas R.

White, William Hale

The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford

Whitelaw, Billie

Whitman, Walt

Wild Geese

Wilde, Oscar

parents of

identity

Oxford

religion

Anglo-Irish strains

Irish Question

as critic of imperial psychology

as republican

and Irish Renaissance

against literary realism

love of English culture

as decolonizing artist

trial of

on Celt in art

on upper-class attitudes

on dissenters

on Shakespeare and romantics

on failures of modern education

and mask

and revisionism

art as the future

as jester

and dandyism

on property

on pose

on respect for youth

on self-invention

and anti-Oedipus

use of religious themes

on faith versus good works

compared to early Beckett

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