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IRISH GOTHIC
art, folklore, story, site
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Disturbance (2011) Willie Doherty
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Folklore and Irish Gothic
Mapping
The Sea
The Gothic Home
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“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake”
(James Joyce)
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Cartoons for Punch
The Irish Devilfish, The Irish Vampire, the Irish Frankenstein (Sir John Tenniel)
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“I am not English,I am Irish – which is quite another thing”
(Oscar Wilde)
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Sean Lynch (2006) Latoon
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St Brigid’s Shrine Faughurt – the eye stone (left), the head stone (right)
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Tim Robinson. Map of the Burren.
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Giraldus Cambrensis -Topographia Hibernia (late 11th
century)
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“I shall have to write some accounts which will seem to the
reader either utterly impossible, or quite ridiculous. But with
the help of God I will insert nothing in my book the truth of
which I have not elicited with the greatest diligence whether
from my own firm belief or the authentic testimony of the most
trustworthy men.”
(Giraldus Cambrensis)
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Joe McNamara (Achill-henge 2011)
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Fata Morgana (Martin Healy) 2010
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A preliminary sketch for the reappearance of HyBrazil (2007) Sean Lynch
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A preliminary sketch for the reappearance of HyBrazil (2007) Sean Lynch
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Fergal McCarthy (2011) No Man’s Land
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Surface and Surface (2012) Gary Coyle
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Song of the Sea (2014) directed Tomm Moore
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Castletown House 1722-29
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The Cardplayers and the Devil
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Poster for Prelude Speaker: Contemporary Castletown,
2013; Marianne Keating (2013) Famine Screen.
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Daphne Wright(1997) They’ve Taken To Their Beds.
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Dorothy Cross (2000) Endarken. Film stills.
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Seamus Farrell (2008) Neo Ruin/Irish Folly
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Elaine Reynolds (On/Off States 2010)
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Alice Maher (House of Thorns 1992)
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Palisade (2003) Alice Maher
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Dominic Thorpe(20087 Its Not My Place)
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Aideen Barry(2007) Levitating
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Aideen Barry (2011) Possession
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“Irish culture is sedimentary. By this I mean that things don’t get obliterated,
they get buried. They are covered with a new layer of history but they are
still down there, like bodies preserved in bogs. They surface in new forms,
like holy wells and holy mountains as places of Christian pilgrimage. Or they
emerge into wholly new contexts, like Fionn Mac Cumhaill waking from his
slumbers to find himself in two avant-garde 20th-century novels, James
Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds . What
Sigmund Freud called “the return of the repressed” is the very stuff of Irish
art. It is haunted by ghosts and revenants. Nothing is ever really dead”
(Fintan O’Toole)
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Yellow (2008) Amanda Coogan