TY - BOOK ID - 2573455 TI - Ritual Remembering : History, Myth and Politics in Anglo-Irish Drama AU - Barfoot, C.C. AU - Doel, Rias van den PY - 1995 VL - 99 2 SN - 9051837690 9004489797 PB - Leiden; Boston : BRILL, DB - UniCat KW - Politics and literature KW - Ireland KW - Congresses KW - Myth in literature KW - History in literature KW - English literature KW - Authors [Irish ] KW - Irish literature KW - Triads (Organized crime) KW - Irish authors KW - Hong men (Society) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2573455 AB - Most of the essays in Ritual Remembering: History, Myth and Politics in Anglo-Irish Drama , in part or in whole, frequently allude or directly concern themselves with the dramatic representation of the opposition or the collusion of myth and history, and the uses and abuses of both. Equally they celebrate and critically analyse the politics of the social conscience and social consciousness which pervades Irish drama in its rituals of forgetfulness and memory. Perhaps myth is above all to be understood as the conscience and consciousness of history; and politics is the projection of that myth into present social action - on the hustings (nowadays more frequently the television hustings), at the ballot box, in writing and on the stage. Most of the articles in this volume revolve around these gravely portentous and ambivalent themes, which nobody who is as much concerned with Anglo-Irish relations as with Anglo-Irish literature can disregard or evade. ER -