Abstract
This essay interrogates how various Dante commemorations (1921, 1965, 2015, 2021) have been pressed into the modes of memory management on the island of Ireland. In particular, the 1921 commemoration came at a moment of great historical importance for the emerging (almost) independent state and Dante becomes a vector for all manner of biases, pieties and iconoclasm. At the heart of these Irish commemorations is the aim to celebrate a Dante different from British iterations and one that is made fit with a projected Irishness. What emerges from these peculiar commemorative acts is an Irish Dante oddly reflective more of the contemporary Ireland commemorating than Dante the poet, present elsewhere in Irish cultural production (Joyce, Beckett).
| Original language | English (Ireland) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 289-310 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Bibliotheca Dantesca |
| Volume | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
Keywords
- Ireland
- Catholic Church
- Nationalism
- Joyce
- Beckett
- Dante Studies
- Commemoration
- Anglo-Irish Treaty
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