71 research outputs found
Anorexic
No full textEAVAN BOLAND of Dublin, Ireland is the author of The War Horse and New Territory. Anorexic is from a new collection of poems, In Her Own Image, to be published this spring
'The country at my shoulder' : gender and belonging in three contemporary women poets
No full textThis
study considers the work of three women poets writing
in English during the
period
1970-2000. I
argue that the poets, Eavan Boland, Michele Roberts and Jackie
Kay
are all
`hybrid'
voices, positioned and positioning themselves on the borders
between different
cultures and traditions. Locating the poets within a specific social,
cultural and intellectual
context the
study considers the different
ways in
which the
poets negotiate these mixed
heritages and how
gender interacts with
their cultural
location to affect the
poetic identities they inhabit.
My
study of
Eavan Boland locates her
as a post-colonial poet writing out of a very
specific historical
relationship with
Britain. I
argue that the effects of
this
relationship are explored in two ways; the political and psychic legacy of
the British
colonisation of
Ireland but
also the ways in
which women in Ireland have been
colonised by
a nationalist poetic tradition. I
show how Boland interrogates these
different
colonisations and drawing
on the work of
Homi Bhabha I
argue that Boland
finds her
own
hybrid
space in
the Dublin
suburbs from
where she explores the
frictions between a number of conflicting positions.
My
study of
Michele Roberts explores the effects of
her dual French and English
heritage on her
writing.
I
argue that Roberts' desire to embrace both
aspects of
her
identity
manifests itself
as a desire to reconcile what western dualistic thinking has
split and separated. I
consider how Roberts advocates a writing and reading practise
which asks us to embrace the stranger within ourselves and so begin to
heal the split
within
individuals
and nations.
My
chapter on Kay
explores how
she negotiates the cultural specificity of
her
location
as a Scottish writer who
identifies
as black
and how her poetry complicates
questions of cultural authority and theories of cultural
hybridity. I
argue that Kay
through
a focus on
`performance' as both theme and aesthetic subverts simple fixed
notions of
identity.
I
conclude that all three poets problematise any simple notion of
home and belonging
as a fixed
and immutable space. Rather they inhabit borderlands, unsettled spaces,
where there is
a constant interaction and reformulation of
identity
Northern Irish Elegy
No full textThis thesis proposes that Northern Irish elegy is a distinctive genre of contemporary poetry, which has developed during the years of the Troubles, and has continued to be adapted and defined during the current peace process. It argues that the practice of writing elegy for the losses of the Troubles has established a poetic mode in which Northern Irish poets have continued to work through losses of a more universal kind. This thesis explores the contention that elegy has a clear social and political function, providing a way in which to explore some of the losses experienced by a community over the past half-century, and helping to suggest ideas of consolation.
Part one focuses on three first generation Northern Irish elegists: Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon. Heaney is considered in a chapter which takes in a poetic career, through which might be traced the development of Northern Irish elegy. Following this are two highly focused studies of the elegies of Longley and Mahon. The place of artifice in elegy is considered in relation to Longley's Troubles elegies, while Mahon’s irony is discussed in relation to his elegiac need for community.
Part two looks at a second generation, represented by Ciaran Carson and Paul Muldoon. Carson's elegies for Belfast are read in a discussion of the destruction and reconstruction that occurs during the process of remembering. This study explores the idea that elegies might also be written for places and temporal spaces. Carson's interest in poetic form is shown to be intricately related to his elegiac practice. The chapter on Muldoon surveys a career which has interrogated the connections between art and suffering. Muldoon raises questions of poetic responsibility, and also challenges poetry itself, on a formal and linguistic level. As his career develops, he includes not only the local threats of Troubles violence within his elegies, but also the global threats of disease, violence and terror.
Part three starts with Medbh McGuckian, whose work is discussed in relation to the third generation poets Sinead Morrissey, Leontia Flynn and Colette Bryce. As McGuckian's poetry is perhaps the least immediately accessible of all the poetry covered here, the thesis considers ways in which her work might be read, before her poems are discussed as Northern Irish elegies. Following this are readings of poems from Morrissey, Flynn and Bryce, noting ways in which this generation works to develop the genre of elegy, working in the same broad themes that have been charted throughout this thesis
‘A river is not a woman’: Re-visioning Finnegans Wake in Eavan Boland’s ‘Anna Liffey.’
No full textThis essay argues that Eavan Boland\u27s 1994 poem “Anna Liffey” is, in part, a re-visioning of James Joyce\u27s famous river-woman and mother, ALP. Although Joyce\u27s deconstructive tendencies provide an added challenge for any author looking to engage with Finnegans Wake, Boland manages to reclaim ALP, both channelling and challenging Joyce\u27s portrayal of the Liffey as “Anna Livia Plurabelle.”--From the Journal
“An Example of Dissidence”: A Reflection on Eavan Boland’s Reading of Patrick Kavanagh
No full textEste artigo fornece uma visão sobre o nexo criativo e intelectual entre Eavan Boland e Patrick Kavanagh, um dos muitos poetas irlandeses referidos na prosa crítica e autobiográfica de Boland. Embora reconhecendo que sua relação intelectual com o poeta mais velho seja, em alguns aspectos, “um exemplo de dissidência”, Boland descobriu que foi sua antiga intimidade com ele que fez dela um objeto-tornando-se-autor. Além disso, em termos de composição poética, este artigo lança luz sobre o interesse de Boland no uso que Kavanagh faz da forma do soneto em “Epic” e discute sua versão atualizada da forma histórica. Esse encontro é examinado no artigo, e revela que ambos os poetas buscaram redefinir a “tradição”, partindo de dentro, e rearticulá-la em suas próprias circunstâncias.This article provides insight into the creative and intellectual nexus between Eavan Boland and Patrick Kavanagh, one of the many Irish poets referred to in Boland’s critical and autobiographical prose. While acknowledging that her intellectual relationship with the older poet, in some respects, is “an example of dissidence,” Boland found that it was her earlier intimacy with him that made her an object-becoming-author. Additionally, in terms of poetry composition, this article sheds light on Boland’s interest in Kavanagh’s use of the sonnet form in “Epic” and discusses her updated version of the historical form. Their encounter, examined in the article, reveals that both poets sought to redefine the “tradition” from within and rearticulate it in their own circumstances. 
Incidence of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) Bacteremia in Patients Colonized With CRE
No full textSyphilis and HIV co-infection in Dublin; strategies to enhance diagnosis, investigation and management
No full textTHESIS 9036Following historically low levels of reported cases of syphilis in Dublin in the 1990s there was a large outbreak of syphilis reported in 2001. Numerous interventions were implemented and the rates again decreased in 2003. In 2008 a cluster of five patients with ocular syphilis presented in a short time period. This prompted a review of the number of cases of syphilis presenting to the Department of Genitourinary Medicine and Infectious Diseases in St. James?s Hospital
Can Intravenous Antifungal therapy be safely used in the Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) setting?
No full textOutpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) is an established treatment option for patients with a variety of infections who require a period of intravenous therapy, are clinically stable, and do not require continuous monitoring. Many patients with fungal infections require prolonged therapy due to resistance or intolerance to oral antifungal agents. Despite the widespread use of OPAT by infection specialists, antifungal agents appear infrequently used in this setting. We suggest that with appropriate patient selection, patients with fungal infections could successfully be treated on OPAT. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.</p
Challenges in the management of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis
No full textThe management of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) presents multiple challenges. We present three cases that illustrate some of the most challenging aspects of caring for patients with CPA: specifically, antifungal drug resistance, drug interactions, coinfection with nontuberculous mycobacteria, and large-volume hemoptysis.</p
Place and displacement in the works of Brian Friel and Seamus Heaney
No full textThis thesis seeks to locate Brian Friel and Seamus Heaney within a post-colonial
and postmodern era of writing which is concerned with the problematising of an
effective identifying relationship between self and place. In the first instance, the
study is interested in the response of these two writers, within the literary forms of
drama and poetry, to the recurrence of sectarian and neo-colonial conflict in
Northern Ireland since the nineteen sixties. Obliged to deal with history as a
category, their art emphasises the contest for the naming of people and terrain
which has taken place within language, writing and discourse.
But place for these writers is not only historical and material, it is sensual, familiar
and parochial. The structural and narrative shape of the drama and poetry is that of
a lived, intimate, non-literate engagement with the local particulars of place and a
learned, artistic life which offers insight into that existence. The thesis is interested
in the nature of this modern form of division: the detached, educated mind 'making
strange' the ordinary assimilated life. Men of rural origins who pursue pedagogical
and artistic vocations do not only offer educations in displacement, but contrarily,
realise that language, education and writing generate displacement, uprooting the
individual, and creating divisions in experience and consciousness.
It is the syncretism of this personal experience of rural place, and of parochial and
metropolitan forms of education and culture, with the historical colonial reformation
of the Irish landscape through a culture of modernity which constitutes the main
focus and major contribution in understanding of this thesis to the contemporary
literature and society of Northern Ireland
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