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    Breandán Ó hEithir’s Use of Music in Constructing and Re-constructing Community in Lead Us Into Temptation


    McCann, Chris (2020) Breandán Ó hEithir’s Use of Music in Constructing and Re-constructing Community in Lead Us Into Temptation. NPPSH Reflections, 3. pp. 87-108. ISSN 2565-6031

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    Abstract

    Music is an effective device in Irish fiction for symbolising community and the expression of collective values. As Gerry Smyth observes, the presence of music in the Irish novel elucidates how the histories of each form are often “enmeshed with the wider question of national identity” (106). Such formal complications emerge in Breandán Ó hEithir’s novel Lig Sinn i gCathú, first published in Irish in 1976 and two years later in English as Lead Us Into Temptation.1 Through a multifaceted approach incorporat-ing musicological theory and comparative historical sources, this analysis interrogates the ways in which music expresses Irish sociopolitical identity in the novel.

    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Breandán Ó hEithir; Music; Constructing; Re-constructing; Community; Lead Us Into Temptation; NPPSH;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > History
    Item ID: 13356
    Depositing User: NPPSH Editor
    Date Deposited: 17 Sep 2020 09:30
    Journal or Publication Title: NPPSH Reflections
    Publisher: Maynooth Academic Publishing
    Refereed: Yes
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      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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