Rooted Cosmopolitanism in M. Mhac an tSaoi’s Poetry (2023)
Rióna Ní Fhrighil, 2023. ‘Rooted Cosmopolitanism in Máire Mhac an tSaoi’s Poetry’ in C. Ní Ríordáin & S. Schwerter (eds), The Poets and Poetry of Munster (Stuttgart: ibidem), 53-72.
The Posthuman and Irish Antigones (2022)
Natasha Remoudou, 2022. ‘The Posthuman and Irish Antigones: Rights, Revolt, Extinction’ Clotho 4(2): 211-247. Read article here. Abstract: Antigone’s afterlives in Ireland have always enacted critical gestures of social protest and mourning that expose the fundamental fragility of human rights caught up in the symbolic conflict between oppressors and oppressed. This paper seeks to explore […]
Trauma, Radiance, & the Macabre in “Living in Hiroshima”’ (2022)
Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha, 2022. ‘”I am their ghost: Trauma, Radiance, and the Macabre in Anthony Glavin’s ‘Living in Hiroshima” Irish Studies in Europe XI: Interfaces and Dialogues.
HUMAN RIGHTS & POETRY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT (2022)
Rióna Ní Fhrighil & Anne Karhio, (2022). ‘Human Rights and Poetry in a Global Context’, Law and Humanities 16(1), 3-7. Full text available open-access at Law and Humanities Achoimre/Abstract: This Special Issue titled ‘Human Rights and Poetry in a Global Context’ contains five articles from a diverse range of global perspectives and contexts including Ireland, […]
IRISH POETRY AND THE FALL OF SREBRENICA (2022)
Rióna Ní Fhrighil, 2022. ”A black day this: Irish poetry and the fall of Srebrenica’, Law and Humanities 16(1), 8-27. Full article available open-access at Law and Humanities Achoimre/Abstract: The Bosnian War elicited a substantial number of poetic responses from Irish poets, writing in both English and in Irish. This article focuses on one frequently […]
HUMAN RIGHTS & POSTHUMAN POETICS (2022)
Anne Karhio, 2002. ‘Human rights and posthuman poetics in contemporary Irish poetry: technology, media, ecology’, Law and Humanities 16(1), 102-122. Full article available open-access at Law and Humanities Achoimre/Abstract: This article examines a series of poems by contemporary Irish authors writing in English, and focuses on the role of media technology in considering post-human ethics […]
GENDERING HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN GREEK POETRY (2022)
Natasha Remoundou, 2022. ‘Wronged bodies: gendering human rights abuses in contemporary Greek poetry’, Law and Humanities 16(1), 28-58. Full article available open-access at Law and Humanities Achoimre/Abstract: This article surveys the ways in which contemporary Greek poetry unveils human rights abuses in Greek society in order to push for law and social policy reforms that […]
Vertical Verse: Aerial Maps of the Middle East in Irish Poetry (2022)
Natasha Remoundou, 2022. ‘Vertical Verse: Aerial Maps of the Middle East in Irish Poetry’. Irish Network of Middle Eastern and North African Studies (INMENAS) (30/6/2022) Read blog post here Summary: This blog post explores the ways technological media of vertical and oblique war photography and military surveillance are captured in contemporary Irish poetry to open […]
‘Gaoth Anoir’ le Conleth Ellis agus an ré iar-Chernobyl (2022)
Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha, 2022. ‘”Gaoth Anoir” le Conleth Ellis agus an ré iar-Chernobyl’, Comhar 7. Ar fáil ar líne anseo. Achoimre: Téann an t‑alt seo i ngleic leis an dán fada ‘Gaoth Anoir’ leis an fhile dátheangach Conleth Ellis. Pléann an dán an saol tar éis an phléasctha i bhfreasaitheoir uimhir a ceathair i stáisiún […]
Material Aesthetics of Flight in Irish Poetry (2021)
Anne Karhio, 2021. ‘Human Rights, Posthuman Ethics, and the Material Aesthetics of Flight in Contemporary Irish Poetry’ Irish University Review 51(2): 227-246. Full article available online Abstract: This article examines a series of poems by Irish authors, and focuses on their engagement with human rights violations and conflicts through the metaphors and imagery of flight […]