The city in Irish culture

Declan Kiberd

City, 2002, vol. 6, issue 2, 219-228

Abstract: This essay considers the city in Irish culture. Irish nationalist discourse has denounced the city as an English phenomenon, a site of modernity and, as such, of corruption and immorality. However, it is argued here that those readings have been over-emphasized and that the rural/urban split seems far more rooted in British than in Irish culture. A more complex view is being obscured. This article also looks at Joyce's Dublin, an intimate and villagey site of emergent modernity and at recent 'localist' literature. Finally, the possibilities of multi-culturalism as an addition to Irish culture are discussed.

Date: 2002
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