de Brún, Fionntán (2013) Temporality and Irish Revivalism: Past, Present, and Becoming. New Hibernia Review, 17 (4). pp. 17-47. ISSN 1092-3977

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In the late Seamus Heaney's Human Chain (2010), his elegy for Colin Middleton "Loughanure" becomes a Proustian exercise in remembrance as well as an examination of individual legacy prompting him to return to his time at the Irish College (Coláiste Bhríde) in Rannafast in 1953. In the final two parts of the poem, the young Heaney's inadequacy in Irish dovetails the limitations of remembrance as the elder poet tries "to remember the Greek word signifying / A world restored completely: that would include / Hannah Mhór's turkey-chortle of Irish."1 The Irish College rite of passage is apt for many reasons. Heaney's elegy for Middleton centers on his painting of Loughanure, near Rannafast, which is part of the landscape the poet had recently traveled by ambulance having suffered a stroke—circumstances that clearly add urgency to remembrance. But equally, the Irish College experience was, and still is, about trying to reconnect with the lost legacy of previous generations, a return to the source of language and identity in the Gaeltacht.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Temporality; Irish Revivalism; Past; Present; Becoming;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts & Humanities > School of Celtic Studies > Nua-Ghaeilge (Modern Irish)
Item ID:	11928
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1353/nhr.2013.0055.
Depositing User:	Fionntan de Brun
Date Deposited:	26 Nov 2019 15:01
Journal or Publication Title:	New Hibernia Review
Publisher:	Center for Irish Studies at the University of St. Thomas
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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