The impact of the border on Irish fiction, 1969-2016

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dc.check.date9999-12-31
dc.contributor.advisorLaird, Heather
dc.contributor.advisorO'Connor, Maureen
dc.contributor.authorMcConigley, Martinen
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-17T17:07:20Z
dc.date.available2025-11-17T17:07:20Z
dc.date.issued2019en
dc.date.submitted2019
dc.description.abstractPartition was a colonial imposition that facilitated the creation of two inward looking monocultures on the island ofireland. These nation-states, South and North, adhered to a conservative, heteronormative ideology that was suspicious of difference and punished nonconformity. In the North ofireland (North), the Catholic minority were construed as a dangerous Other. In the Republic ofireland (Republic), the powerful Catholic Hierarchy oversaw the development of a culture defined by fear and hidden trauma. However, partition did not simply divide two nation-states; it also created a liminal border space. At the periphery of both North and South, the border was a site beyond control that offered a physical and imaginative space for non­conformity and challenge. Partition divided two antagonistic 'peoples', but it also united individuals incapable of or unwilling to take a place within the hegemony of the nation-state. This study sets out to understand the impact of the border on the cultural development of the two states it came into being alongside. Through a close reading of Irish fiction, published since 1969, I will propose that the border has had, and continues to have, a significant influence on Irish writing. This, I will argue, is most clearly seen in the tendency of border fictions to reject standards of narrative development and to end in ambiguity and failure.en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationMcConigley, M. 2019. The impact of the border on Irish fiction, 1969-2016. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18214
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.rights© 2019, Martin McConigley.en
dc.subjectIrish fiction 1969-2016en
dc.subjectIrish writingen
dc.subjectIrish borderen
dc.titleThe impact of the border on Irish fiction, 1969-2016en
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD - Doctor of Philosophyen
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