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Writing the Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy is a comprehensive collection of critical essays, memoirs, poetry, and other writerly responses devoted to the life and work of the late Dermot Healy (1947-2014). Healy was an accomplished poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and editor, and so these essays and observations address the entire range of his eclectic and exciting oeuvre. While paying due tribute to the memory of the man himself, the collection primarily seeks to establish a series of important critical perspectives through which Healy’s writings can be properly viewed and assessed. Contemporary writers and poets – including Colm Tóibín, Neil Jordan, Aidan Higgins, Alannah Hopkin, Kevin Barry, Annie Proulx, Michael Longley, Roddy Doyle, Tess Gallagher, Timothy O’Grady, Glenn Patterson, Patrick McCabe, and many others – offer creative reflections on Healy’s work, while literary critics provide a wide-ranging foundation for future Healy scholarship. In total, over forty contributors from more than a dozen countries provide insight into one of Ireland’s most powerful and unique literary voices. This collection is absolutely crucial for everyone interested in the work of Dermot Healy and for all devotees of Irish literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781564789242
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date: 02/06/2021
Series: Irish Literature
Pages: 164
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.40(d)
Age Range: 9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Neil Murphy teaches contemporary literature at NTU, Singapore. He is the author of Irish Fiction and Postmodern Doubt (2004) and editor of Aidan Higgins: The Fragility of Form (2010) and of the revised edition of Higgins’s Balcony of Europe (2010). He co-edited (with Keith Hopper) a special Flann O’Brien centenary issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction (2011) and The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien (2013). He has published numerous articles and book chapters on contemporary fiction, Irish writing, and theories of reading, and is currently completing a book on John Banville.

Keith Hopper teaches Literature and Film Studies at Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education, and is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Irish Studies at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. He is the author of Flann O’Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist (revised edition 2009), general editor of the twelve-volume Ireland into Film series (2001–7), and co-editor (with Neil Murphy and Ondřej Pilný) of a special “Neglected Irish Fiction” issue of Litteraria Pragensia (2013). He is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and is currently completing a book on the writer and filmmaker Neil Jordan.

Table of Contents

Foreword Neil Jordan ix

Editors' Introduction Neil Murphy Keith Hopper xiii

Acknowledgements xxi

Section I Writers and Artists on the Writer

The Plough Dermot Healy 3

Constellations Michael Longley 4

Alone in a Landscape: The Poetry of Dermot Healy Colm Tóibín 5

Ballinfull, 3 July 2014 Harry Clifton 15

"Only myself, said Cúnla" Timothy O'Grady 16

Wings 2/6: Memories of Dermot Healy Patrick McCabe 29

Song in the Grass Kate Fagan 40

Sea-strangeness: Memories of Dermot Healy Tess Gallagher 49

Dermot Healy: A Cavan Antaeus Ronan Sheehan 56

The Bend for Healy Roddy Doyle 64

A Song for Ireland Danny Morrison 66

"Anonymous is best…" Philip Ó Ceallaigh 72

After the Event Glenn Patterson 76

Dermot Healy: Newcomer, Mentor, Old Hand Alannah Hopktn (& Aidan Higgins) 78

The Rogue Wave Michael Harding 84

A Short History of Force 10 (A Journal of the North-West) Brian Leyden 87

Reading Force 10 George O'Brien 93

Form Caroline Bracken 99

Sligo Occult: On Dermot Healy's Radical Style Kevin Barry 100

"Testing, said a voice. Testing, one two three …" Mike McCormack 104

The Eve of St John Eoin McNamee 110

A Goat's Song: A Writer's Appreciation Annie Proulx 112

Review Essay: Dermot Healy's Sudden Times Annie Proulx 124

On The Bend for Home Molly McCloskey 128

A Lift Mary O'Malley 136

Remembering Dermot Healy and / Could Read the Sky Nichola Bruce 137

Profile: Interview with Dermot Healy (1999) Vincent Browne 143

At the End of the Day Garry Keane 143

Land of Dreams Gerald Dawe 155

Section II Critical Responses

"The small stone that no one sees gives all the balance": Unique Perspective and Personal Idiom in the Works of Dermot Healy Sean Golden 159

Dermot Healy-Art into Life: Life into Art Bill Swainson 182

The Importance of Being Dermot: Healy's Idiosyncrasies Thierry Robin 197

"The Passionate Transitory": Dermot Healy and the Sense of Place Keith Hopper 210

Reveries of the Solitary Self in Banished Misfortune Flore Coulouma 231

Dermot Healy's Heterotopias: Fanacross and Northern Ireland in Fighting with Shadows Jack Fennell 246

"The orchestra of memory": Music, Sound and Silence in A Goat's Song Gerry Smyth 259

Dermot Healy's A Goat's Song: "To give some form to that which cannot be uttered" Neil Murphy 277

Guilt Trips: Dermot Healy's Sudden Times and the Meaning of Sin Paul Fagan 292

Psyche's Garden: The Labour of Mourning and the Growth of the Self in Long Time, No See Dermot McCarthy 314

Mister Psyche's Microcosmos Catherine Hoffmann 331

The Bend for Home: Truth, Beauty, Such Things Derek Hand 349

Dermot Healy: Local, National and International Drama Michelle C. Paull 365

Banished Misfortunes?: Dermot Healy and the Rise of the Posthuman Michael Cronin 382

Select Bibliography 399

Contributors 417

About the Editors 429

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