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A season in hell: paradox and violence in the poetry of Padraic Fiacc

Tynan, Aidan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0548-2013 2014. A season in hell: paradox and violence in the poetry of Padraic Fiacc. Irish University Review 44 (2) , pp. 341-356. 10.3366/iur.2014.0128

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Abstract

The work of Belfast poet Padraic Fiacc is an important but critically neglected contribution to the canon of Northern Irish poetry. This article explores Fiacc's work, giving particular attention to the collections published during the bloodiest years of the Northern Ireland conflict and to the anthology of poems on the subject of the conflict which he edited and published in 1974 with the Blackstaff Press. Beyond the intrinsic value of Fiacc's poems themselves, his work has the benefit of causing us to reconsider issues of canonicity in the Irish poetic tradition and to revisit some of the assumptions about the relationships between poetry, history, and politics which have become dominant in our understanding of this tradition. Fiacc's poetry, while located in a distinctly Irish cultural context, bears important resemblances to the work of continental figures such as Rimbaud and Celan. In addition, Fiacc's work raises crucial questions about the relationship between violence, poetry, and language at a more general level. The article addresses some of these questions through the insights of philosophers such as Slavoj Žižek, Theodor Adorno, and Walter Benjamin.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PB Modern European Languages > PB1001 Celtic languages and literature
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISSN: 0021-1427
Last Modified: 25 Oct 2022 08:02
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/51175

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