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10 The Ghost of Parnell
Get accessR. F. Foster is Emeritus Professor of Irish History at Oxford and of Irish History and Literature at Queen Mary University of London. His many prizewinning books include Modern Ireland 1600–1972, Paddy and Mr Punch, The Irish Story: telling tales and making it up in Ireland, the two-volume authorized biography of W. B. Yeats, Vivid Faces: the revolutionary generation in Ireland 1890–1923, and On Seamus Heaney. A Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and the holder of several honorary degrees, he is also a well-known cultural commentator and critic.
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Published:18 July 2023
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Conor Cruise O’Brien memorably defined the history of the generation before we were born as ‘a twilit zone of time’, never quite belonging to the larger historical experience. Rather, it is a site of impressions and assumptions acquired from supposed ‘memories’ which are actually derived from our parents’ recollections, and a sense of continuity dependent upon ‘the personality, opinions, and talkativeness of our elder relations’. Elsewhere, O’Brien referred to Parnell’s mysterious but charismatic persona posthumously ‘deviating from politics into literature’, a process particularly manipulated by W. B. Yeats. This is true, but the manner in which Yeats absorbed and used the memory of Parnell is at once more direct and more distanced than first appears. In Yeats’s case, evaluating the influence of literary Parnellism requires a careful examination of chronology, omission, and political context.
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