A Chastened Communion: Modern Irish Poetry and Catholicism

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments | ix Abbreviations | xiii Introduction | 1 1. Austin Clarke’s (Anti-)Confessional Poetics | 19 2. Kavanagh’s Parochialism: A Catholic Poetics of Place | 49 3. Partition and Communion in John Montague’s Poetry | 79 4. Transcending Sacrifice How Heaney Makes Room for the Marvelous | 108 5. Relics and Nuns in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Poetry Sifting the Remains of Irish Catholicism | 145 6. Paul Durcan’s Priests: Refashioning Irish Masculinity | 168 7. Paula Meehan’s Revised Marianism The Apparitions of “Our Lady of the Facts of Life” | 194 Epilogue: Religion and Poetry in Post-Catholic Ireland | 217 Notes | 227 Bibliography | 251 Index | 265 ...