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- Title: Lucy Mcdiarmid, The Irish Art of Controversy (Book Review)
- Author : Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 331 KB
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Lucy McDiarmid, The Irish Art of Controversy. Dublin: Lilliput, 2005. xviii + 280 pages. No price given. Lucy McDiarmid's The Irish Art of Controversy is one of the most refreshingly original works to enhance Irish Studies in recent years. The book deals with five public controversies in Ireland that arose between 1908 and 1916: those over the location of the Hugh Lane gallery, Irish as a compulsory matriculation subject in the new National University of Ireland, the staging by the Abbey Theatre of Shaw's Blanco Posnet which had been banned in London; the taking of impoverished children to Britain during the Dublin strike and lockout of 1913, and the sexuality of Roger Casement and its role in his execution for treason. Four of the five have continued, to varying degrees, to live in popular memory; the exception being that over the Shaw play. Three of the five, those over the gallery, matriculation Irish and Casement, enjoyed afterlives for many decades and arguably, indeed, the Casement controversy still continues.
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