Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy

In 'Landscape and Memory' (one of his best books) Simon Schama discusses contemporary misunderstandings of Frazer's The Golden Bough ... Worth reading ...

Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy

in W. Joyce, A Social History of Ancient Ireland, 2 vols (London, 1903), I, 468 but also in the Roman Breviary of Joyce’s youth. Generations of Irish children in Catholic schools, including those attended by Joyce, learned that Eriugena was ‘celebrated for his knowledge of Greek’

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@Muinchille @BeattieDoug that his Grace was born in a house that formerly stood on the site of the late Royal Irish Academy House, in Grafton Street’ (The Literary Life And Correspondence Of The Countess Of Blessington, ed. R.R. Madden, 3 vols (London, 1855), III, 14).

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It's only taken me 22 years, since I gave a lecture on Finnegans Wake and the Book of Kells on the premises (Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing, TCD), to finish it properly. Can't quite believe it!

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And then there is Yeats, 'reviewing Lord Arthur Savile's crime and other stories (1891) in Parnell's United Ireland on 26 September 1891, held that English readers of Wilde suffered from "a complete inability to understand anything he says. We should not find him so ...

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@MarcPColeman @Muinchille The very common misattribution of the horsey jibe to Wellington owes a great deal to Sigmund Freud, ‘Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious’, Complete Psychological Works, VIII, 1-247 ( 71). In this context, Freud ascribes what was actually Daniel O’Connell’s jibe that ...

Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy

@IanPsDarkCorner @PaulWalsh3 @WalleyVision @AnnaMMcQuinn @IrishRainforest No, he said the term 'British Isles' was introduced by the Elizabethans, which is entirely correct, based on a reference given by a Greek-speaking, Egyptian, who was a Roman citizen: Claudius Ptolemy (c. AD 100 – c. 170). In his Almagest (c. 147-8), he refers to an island he ...

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His brother's book on the Book of Kells had a profound effect on Joyce and its rather euphuistic style is parodied in Finnegans Wake. However, Joyce knew the Book of Kells from lithographs even before its publication in 1914: https://t.co/HYxOZIq4R8

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@JonathanODea @Iwerzon @Muinchille A. Weir and J. Jerman, lmages of Lust: Sexual Carvings on Medieval Churches (London, 1986); S. Cherry, A Guide to Sheela-na-gigs (Dublin, 1992); C. E. Karkov,'Sheela-na-gigs and Other Unruly Women: Images of Land and Gender in Medieval Ireland', in From lreland Coming ...

Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy

@MarcPColeman @Muinchille The very common misattribution of the horsey jibe to Wellington owes a great deal to Sigmund Freud, ‘Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious’, Complete Psychological Works, VIII, 1-247 ( 71). In this context, Freud ascribes what was actually Daniel O’Connell’s jibe that ...