Building in the Imagin(ed)(n)ation: An Essay Inspired by W.B. Yeats' - ``Meditations in Time of Civil War'

Ireland is a country haunted by a past which refuses to remain buried. This past irrupts and interupts in texts as diverse as the Irish Constitution and the poems of W.B. Yeats. This piece ruminates on the representation of the state's violent past in legal texts and in the poetry of W.B. Yeats...

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Published inThe Liverpool law review Vol. 23; no. 2; p. 223
Main Author Hanafin, Patrick
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Liverpool Springer Nature B.V 01.05.2001
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Summary:Ireland is a country haunted by a past which refuses to remain buried. This past irrupts and interupts in texts as diverse as the Irish Constitution and the poems of W.B. Yeats. This piece ruminates on the representation of the state's violent past in legal texts and in the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Paul Muldoon and attempts to draw links between the personal and the political narration of violence.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0144-932X
1572-8625
DOI:10.1023/A:1016042103158