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‘Bubbles of joy’ : moments of pleasure in recent Northern Irish culture (2017)
Journal Article
Magennis, C. (2017). ‘Bubbles of joy’ : moments of pleasure in recent Northern Irish culture. Études irlandaises, 42-1, 155-168. https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesirlandaises.5183

This essay considers the representation of pleasure in three “post”-conflict Northern Irish texts: Glenn Patterson’s novel The Rest Just Follows (2014), Billy Cowan’s play Still Ill (2014) and Lucy Caldwell’s short story collection Multitudes (2016).... Read More about ‘Bubbles of joy’ : moments of pleasure in recent Northern Irish culture.

Re-writing Protestant History in the novels of Glenn Patterson (2015)
Journal Article
Magennis, C. (2015). Re-writing Protestant History in the novels of Glenn Patterson. Irish Studies Review, 23(3), 348-360. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2015.1058143

This article considers the representation of the history of Belfast in Glenn Patterson's 2012 novel The Mill for Grinding Old People Young. It situates this novel within the context of Patterson's previous work and the history of the Northern Irish n... Read More about Re-writing Protestant History in the novels of Glenn Patterson.

‘He devours her with his gaze’ : Maurice Leitch’s stamping ground and the politics of the visual (2014)
Journal Article
Magennis, C. (2014). ‘He devours her with his gaze’ : Maurice Leitch’s stamping ground and the politics of the visual. Irish University Review, 44(2), 288-304. https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2014.0125

This essay is a critical reappraisal of Maurice Leitch's 1975 novel Stamping Ground through theories of the gender, sexuality, and the visual. The novel will be read as a disruptive critique of hegemonic Unionist identity and the rural idyll in North... Read More about ‘He devours her with his gaze’ : Maurice Leitch’s stamping ground and the politics of the visual.

‘Each fantasy chosen begin’: the music of The Divine Comedy (2013)
Journal Article
Magennis, C. (2013). ‘Each fantasy chosen begin’: the music of The Divine Comedy. Irish Studies Review, 21(2), 178-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2013.774229

This article considers the cultural and social context for the music of the Northern Irish band The Divine Comedy. It focuses on three mid-1990s albums – Liberation (1993), Promenade (1994) and Casanova (1996) – and debates the significance of this p... Read More about ‘Each fantasy chosen begin’: the music of The Divine Comedy.

‘… that great swollen belly’: the abject maternal in some recent Northern Irish fiction (2010)
Journal Article
Magennis, C. (2010). ‘… that great swollen belly’: the abject maternal in some recent Northern Irish fiction. Irish Studies Review, 18(1), 91-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670880903541782

This essay will consider the representation of the maternal in some contemporary Northern Irish fiction written by men. It will examine, using feminist theories of embodiment and subjectivity, the power of the maternal image in Irish literary and cri... Read More about ‘… that great swollen belly’: the abject maternal in some recent Northern Irish fiction.