Mac Góráin, F;
(2020)
Dinneen's Irish Virgil.
In: Torrance, I and O'Rourke, D, (eds.)
Classics and Irish politics 1916-2016.
(pp. 138-155).
Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.
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Abstract
This chapter discusses the cultural and political reception of Virgil by the nationalist scholar, cleric, and Irish-language expert Patrick Dinneen. Dinneen forges connections between classical antiquity and the Irish experience, seeing himself as a latter-day Virgil, similarly dispossessed of his lands but engaged in the production of a national literature. Among his domesticating receptions of Virgil to the Irish context, he read the Georgics as a model for calling a people back to the land after civil strife. In Dinneen’s reading of Aeneid 6 as recommending a benign form of empire, however, the chapter pinpoints a tension between his favourable view of the Roman Empire as spreading civilization and Christianity, on the one hand, and the potential of empire for injustice and oppression, on the other.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Dinneen's Irish Virgil |
| ISBN-13: | 9780198864486 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780198864486.003.0007 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198864486.003.0007 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Patrick Dinneen, Virgil, political reception, Irish language, national literature, dispossession, Roman Empire |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Greek and Latin |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10094132 |
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