Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon
Features Honest Ulsterman (June 2020). The feature includes a reproduction of the Coghill poem 'Hail Posterity', a discussion on the setting up of Fired! and allusions to the health of women poets who suffered possibly somatisation-related disorders. The poets who included Coghill were aware that their work was not valued, nor would it make it into the wider conversations about Irish poetry. The b ...
Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon
"Yet in spite of a deepening interest in the work of Irish women writers, reinvigorated by #WakingTheFeminists (2016) and ‘ Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon’ (2017), the archival profile of individual women writers has not been significantly raised. Fired! draws particular attention to the neglect of earlier generations of Irish women poets, and to the fact that their work is both out of pri ...
Queen's University Belfast, The McClay Library
The Heaney Manuscripts are primarily composed of materials relating to Seamus Heaney's translation of the Old English epic Beowulf , including the original manuscript drafts and subsequent typescript drafts that trace the revision process, as well as late drafts and correspondence detailing the publication process and illustrating Heaney's consultation with academics. The collection contains a sma ...
Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections
The bulk of material in the J.N. Hart Collection dates from after Forrest Reid’s death in 1947 and relates to the Forrest Reid Memorial exhibition in 1953 and Russell Burlingham’s Forrest Reid: a portrait and study (London: Faber and Faber, 1953).The collection contains correspondence, photographs, monographs and some news cuttings.
Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon
PNR Volume 46 Number 6, July - August 2020 by Michael Schmidt Article URL: https://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=10778 ╶╶╶╶╶╶╶╶╶╶ 'Disruptive Irish Poet, is dead at 75 The New York Times (28/04/2020) Article URL : https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/books/eavan-boland-dead.html ( Online) ╶╶╶╶╶╶╶╶╶╶ Eavan Boland, Pillar of Irish poetry (1944-2020) She helped redefine the literary canon t ...
Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections
Andrew Gibson was a Scottish businessman and a highly regarded scholar and bibliophile. He had originally come to Belfast to act as agent for the ship owner G. & J. Burns Ltd. Gibson is chiefly remembered today as a bibliophile and an expert on poetry. He had an expansive library containing collections by Allan Ramsay, Robert Burns, Thomas Moore and others. The Gibson-Massie Collection at QUB Spec ...
Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections
Olga Fielden was a student at Queen’s University Belfast. She moved to London for a period after her graduation but returned to Northern Ireland where she wrote plays for, and performed with, the amateur dramatics society, the Northern Drama League. Olga published two novels based on life in Ulster, Island Story (1933) and Stress (1936); a third novel, Liam Donn , remained unpublished ‘due to war’ ...
Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon
Keywords : Field Theory, Irish Studies, Gender, Periodical Studies, Twentieth Century Contemporary Poetry “Periodical Codes: ‘Centre’, ‘Margin’ and Gender in Poetry Ireland Review during the early 1980s” by Laura Loftus 4th Annual Postgraduate Conference, Prague, 2018 URL : https://www.academia.edu/42800122/Periodical_Codes_Centre_Margin_and_Gender_in_Poetry_Ireland_Review_During_the_early_1980s?e ...
Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections
The letters contain detailed discussions considering the role of the arts, expose Forster’s insecurities and anxiety regarding his creative output, and provide insight into the conception and development of hugely significant literary works, not only by Forster and Reid but numerous established and new writers in the early part of the twentieth century. Such works include Forster’s A Passage to In ...
Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections
Burdett was a contemporary of Reid’s at Cambridge. The topics are very much literary, rather than personal. In Private Road Reid writes that Burdett was while at Cambridge “working on an extremely bad novel, which I read, finding only one good sentence in it. (I conscientiously pointed this out this sentence to the author.)” Despite Reid’s comment Burdett’s literary and critical output was substan ...
