The ruined voice in Tom Murphy’s Bailegangaire
The dead have a hold on Ireland. Her houses and her pubs, her pages and her stages are full of revenants. These “ghosts in [the] sunlight” 1 are specters conjured by a national imagination, the bronze and marble statues along the street come to life; they are also fathers and mothers, brothers and s...
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| description | The dead have a hold on Ireland. Her houses and her pubs, her pages and her stages are full of revenants. These “ghosts in [the] sunlight” 1 are specters conjured by a national imagination, the bronze and marble statues along the street come to life; they are also fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, the ones with whom we share names and seats at the table, whose eyes tell us how we will grow old, or not. They are reminders of time and time passing, love and the inevitability of love lost. Mostly, they are kept at a distance for fear of the hurting. In Bailegangaire (1985), however, Irish playwright Tom Murphy orchestrates an encounter with the dead, for he suggests that it is in the hurting that a space for meaning to come into being can be located. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1451812023-03-11T20:04:21Z The ruined voice in Tom Murphy’s Bailegangaire Lee, Cheryl Julia Jernigan, Daniel K. Wadiak, Walter Wang, Michelle School of Humanities Humanities::Literature Tom Murphy Irish Drama The dead have a hold on Ireland. Her houses and her pubs, her pages and her stages are full of revenants. These “ghosts in [the] sunlight” 1 are specters conjured by a national imagination, the bronze and marble statues along the street come to life; they are also fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, the ones with whom we share names and seats at the table, whose eyes tell us how we will grow old, or not. They are reminders of time and time passing, love and the inevitability of love lost. Mostly, they are kept at a distance for fear of the hurting. In Bailegangaire (1985), however, Irish playwright Tom Murphy orchestrates an encounter with the dead, for he suggests that it is in the hurting that a space for meaning to come into being can be located. Accepted version 2020-12-15T01:04:05Z 2020-12-15T01:04:05Z 2018 Book Chapter Lee, C. J. (2018). The ruined voice in Tom Murphy’s Bailegangaire. In D. K. Jernigan, W. Wadiak, & M. Wang (Eds.), Narrating death : the limit of literature (pp. 189-205). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429424663-13 978-1-13-836036-5 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145181 10.4324/9780429424663-13 189 205 en Narrating death : the limit of literature © 2018 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved. This book chapter is made available with permission of Taylor & Francis. application/pdf Routledge |
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