The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian: The Interior of Words

Index

1798 rebellion 100, 119 ‘Act of Union’ (Heaney) 23, 27 Adorno,Theodor 16–18, 142 ‘The Aisling Hat’ (McGuckian) 96 aislingí 29, 37, 126–7 Alcobia-Murphy, Shane 52, 105, 151, 152–3, 177–84, 185, 187–93 All Over Again (McTigue) 131–2 Allen, Michael 22–3, 177 ambiguity see polysemy American Civil War 132–3, 135 Amin,Ash 142–3 angels 169–72 Ashe,Thomas 204, 206–7 atrocity, representation of 130–46 Attridge, Derek 173 Augustine, Saint 11 aural effects see phonetic effects Bachelard, Gaston 106–7, 115 Bacque, James 145–6 balakhana, concept of 53–5 see also hotels, imagery of ‘Balakhana’ (McGuckian) 53–5, 184 ballad form 122 Barthes, Roland 83, 100, 183–4, 185, 188, 192–3 Batten, Guinn 110, 197 Baudelaire, Charles 68–9, 74 becoming, concept of 147–61 Beer,Ann 109 Beethoven (Adorno) 16–18 Bendall, Molly 104 Benfey, Christopher 22 Beyond the Limit-Experience (Mole) 142–4 Blakeman, Helen 161 Blanchot, Maurice 173 blankness, imagery of 118, 120, 124, 131–2, 190–91 Blight, David W. 132–5 Bloody Sunday 131, 160 Bloom, Harold 45, 188 ‘Blue Doctrine’ (McGuckian) 113 ‘Blue Sky Rain’ (McGuckian) 90 Boland, Eavan 41, 151 ‘A Book of Rains’ (McGuckian) 14 The Book of the Angel (McGuckian) 170– 71, 212–13 ‘The Book Room’ (McGuckian) 57–8 Bourke,Angela 65–7, 192 Bowie, Malcolm 75, 81 The Boys:Triumph over Adversity (Gilbert) 133–4 Brazeau, Robert 10, 12, 165 Briganti, Chiara 106 Brontë, Emily 191, 200, 203 Broom, Sarah 33 Brown, Clarence 181–3, 187–90 ‘The Building of the“Hebe”’(McGuckian) 113–14 Burt, E.S. 73, 76, 82 Index 253 Cahill, Eileen 84 Cambon, Glauco 20–21 Captain Lavender (McGuckian) 15, 40, 151, 210 Carcanet Press 194–5 Carson, Ciaran 195, 200–201, 202, 203 Casement, Roger 195–6 Cassat, Mary 5–6 ‘Cathal’sVoice’ (McGuckian) 125–6 Cathleen Ní Houlihan (Yeats) 23, 29 Catholicism 26–7, 154, 155, 156–7, 169, 202–3, 205 Celan, Paul 104 Céline, Louis-Ferdinand 9–10 ‘Charcoal Angel’ (McGuckian) 150 ‘Charlotte’s Delivery’ (McGuckian) 35 Chitty, Susan 191 ‘A Chrisom Child’ 170, 212 ‘Circle with Full Stop’ (McGuckian) 87 Cities: Reimagining the Urban (Amin) 142–3 Cixous, Hélène 84, 110, 134–5 Cohn, Robert Greer 71, 72–3, 75 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 121 Collins, Lucy 105–6 Collins, Michael 152, 192 colonisation, 23, 106, 108 commemoration 117–29, 190–91 communication 82–3, 92–3, 148–50 Confessions (St Augustine) 11 ‘Constable’s Haywain’ (McGuckian) 198–9 ‘Conversation about Dante’ (Mandelstam ) 178–83 Coogan,Tim Pat 152, 192 Cook, Jon 4 Corcoran, Neil 43 ‘Corduroy Road’ (McGuckian) 132–5 ‘Un Coup de Dés’ (Mallarmé) 76 Craig, George 70, 71, 72 creativity 27, 32–3, 149–50, 162–76 Crimes and Mercies (Bacque) 145–6 Critchley, Simon 172 critical responses 1, 10, 42–52, 151–3, 177, 202 see also reviews ‘Crystal Night’ (McGuckian) 121 ‘Curtains’ (McGuckian) 154 Dante Alighieri 20–21, 187 Dante’s Craft (Cambon) 19–21 de Certeau, Michel 136 de Lubac, Henri 12–13 Deane, Seamus 44, 139, 155 ‘Dear Rain’ (McGuckian) 169 Death of a Naturalist (Heaney) 155, 156 Deleuze, Gilles 84, 147–50 Derrida, Jacques and communication 82–3, 94, 95 différance 85–6, 98, 101–2 and gender 112 and syntax 75–6 ‘A Deserted Landing Stage on the Rhine’ (McGuckian) 192 The Destruction of Dresden (Irving) 192 Devlin, Bernadette 158 diaspora, imagery of 39, 64, 99, 183 Dickinson, Emily 153 difference, imagery of 85–6, 91–2, 101– 4 ‘A Different Same’ (McGuckian) 87 ‘Digging’ (Heaney) 27, 198 ‘District and Circle’ (Heaney) 202 ‘District Behind the Lines’ (McGuckian) 202 Docherty,Thomas 26, 47–8, 84, 101–2, 107, 179, 184 Doherty,Willie 131 doors, imagery of 105, 111–12, 115–16 see also open/closed imagery; thresholds , imagery of Drawing Ballerinas (McGuckian) 192 ‘Drawing Ballerinas’ (McGuckian) 26, 35 ‘The Dream-Language of Fergus’ (McGuckian) 39, 63–4, 97–100, 152, 178–80 dreams 72, 73, 126 see also aislingí Eagleton,Terry 123 ‘Easter 1916’ (Yeats) 5, 31–2, 117 254 Index Easter Rising 31–2 ‘Eavesdropper’ (McGuckian) 24–7 écriture féminine 39, 84 Edgeworth, Maria 161 ego 60–65 ‘Elegy for an Irish Speaker’(McGuckian) 96–7 Emmet, Robert 119–20, 121–3, 128–9, 204 ‘Emmet as the Apostle of Liberty’ (Yeats) 121 ethics 111–12, 141–6 The Face of...