“the straitjacket of ‘Ulster’”: Brian Moore, Partition, and Fatalism.
This article interrogates the construction of Brian Moore as a “Northern Irish” writer in the context of the centenary of his birth in 2021, a birth which was frequently conflated with the formation of the northern state in 1921. In critically assessing the received image of Moore in the celebration...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Journal of Irish Studies Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 38 - 65 |
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2021
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