Classics and Irish Politics, 1916-2016

Isabelle Torrance is Professor of Classical Reception at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has published extensively on classical Greek literature, especially Greek tragedy, and its reception. From 2019-2024 she is Principal Investigator on the ERC-funded project Classical Influences and Irish Culture.Donncha O'Rourke is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Edinburgh. He has published extensively on classical literature, especially Roman elegiac and didactic poetry.

• List of Illustrations List of Contributors 1. Classics and Irish Politics: Introduction Isabelle Torrance and Donncha O'Rourke I: RECEPTION AND REJECTION OF THE CLASSICS IN IRELAND 2. The Use and Abuse of Classics: Thoughts on Empire, Epic, and Language Declan Kiberd 3. Greece, Rome, and the Revolutionaries of 1916 Brian McGing 4. Classics in the Van of the Irish Revolt: Thomas MacDonagh, 'alien to Athens and Rome?' Eoghan Moloney II: LANGUAGE POLITICS 5. Translating into Irish from Greek and Latin in the Early Years of the Irish State Síle Ní Mhurchú 6. Classics through Irish at University College, Galway, 1931-78 Pádraic Moran 7. Dinneen's Irish Virgil Fiachra Mac Góráin 8. Classics, Medievalism, and Cultural Politics in Myles na gCopaleen's Cruiskeen Lawn Columns Cillian O'Hogan III: BETWEEN SCHOLARSHIP AND LITERATURE 9. Abjection and the Irish-Greek Fir Bolg in Aran Island Writing Arabella Currie 10. Sinn Féin and Ulysses: Between Professor Robert Mitchell Henry and James Joyce Edith Hall 11. Yeats and Oedipus: The Dark Road Chris Morash IV: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND CLASS 12. Wilde, Classicism, and Homosexuality in Modern Ireland Eibhear Walshe 13. Trojan Women and Irish Sexual Politics, 1920-2015 Isabelle Torrance 14. Irish Didos: Empire, Gender, and Class in the Irish Popular Tradition to Frank McGuinness's Carthaginians Siobhán McElduff V: CLASSICAL POETRY AND NORTHERN IRELAND 15. Elegies for Ireland: W. B. Yeats, Michael Longley, and the Roman Elegists Donncha O'Rourke 16. Michael Longley's 'Ceasefire' and the Iliad Maureen Alden 17. Post-Ceasefire Antigones and Northern Ireland Isabelle Torrance VI: MATERIAL CULTURE AND (DE)COLONIALISM 18. Classicism in the Making of Commemorative Monuments in Newly Independent Ireland Judith Hill 19. The Politics of Neoclassicism in Belfast and Dublin: A Tale of Two Buildings Suzanne O'Neill 20. The Classical Themes of Irish Coinage, 1928-2002: Images from a Usable Past Christine Morris 21. Epilogue Richard P. Martin Bibliography Index

A weighty and wide-ranging volume ... Chapters are contributed by a formidable cast of scholars from several disciplines. They cover a wide range of Irish literary and material cultural engagements with the Greek and Roman classics.