Home, Space and Place in Contemporary Irish Fiction; or: What Happens to the 'Sense of Place' in the Twenty-First Century

This paper aims at assessing the relevance today of Seamus Heaney’s 1977 definition of what he called ‘the sense of place’ which he deemed characteristic of Irish literature. In my opinion, there is a need indeed to re-examine how well the concept applies today in view of the recent, dramatic evolut...

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Main Author: Sylvie Mikowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies 2025-02-01
Series:Review of Irish Studies in Europe
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Online Access:https://risejournal.eu/index.php/rise/article/view/3310
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