Belonging
John Kerrigan, 18 July 1996
Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time
by Eavan Boland.
Carcanet, 254 pp., £18.95, April 1995,1 85754 074 3 Show More
by Eavan Boland.
Carcanet, 254 pp., £18.95, April 1995,
Captain Lavender
by Medbh McGuckian.
Gallery Press, 83 pp., £11.95, November 1994,9781852351427 Show More
by Medbh McGuckian.
Gallery Press, 83 pp., £11.95, November 1994,
“... blue ... eye’ fixed on ‘the bright days of her youth’, the seanbhean devotes herself in Ciaran Carson’s 1990 translation to ‘lamenting all the halcyon monotony of that pluperfect time’. Ní Dhomhnaill’s quarrel with this figure is not just that in the past men were hanged and ‘mowed down / In their hundreds’ when they answered her ... ”
