Playing Indian / Disintegrating Irishness: Globalization and Cross-Cultural Identity in Paul Muldoon's "Madoc: A Mystery"

“Telling the truth about time”: The Importance of Local Rootedness in Paula Meehan’s Poetry

“…Her imaginative attachment to the local stories of her ancestors partly responds to her desire to counteract the erasures of modernity. Meehan is deeply aware of what Omaar Hena 2 terms the "disintegration of culture that globalization inaugurates", and that is why one of her most important concerns is to defend the singularity and historical specificity of her working class community 3 . The importance that her family ancestors exert in her poetry is perceived even in her first volume of poetry, Return and No Blame, in which the poetic voice claims: "I am haunted by voices echoing,/ Voices without bodies,/ Ghosts of my childhood dreaming" ("A Decision to Stalk", 8).…”