This drew immediate attack from Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
, a woman poet writing in Irish: her riposte was published both in Poetry Ireland Review, autumn 1992, and (with AS
's defence) in PN Review no. 91.
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998.
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Publishing
Medbh McGuckian
Gallery Press
published The Water Horse: Poems in Irish by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, in which the Irish text of Dohmnaill's poems stands alongside English translations by MMG
and Eiléan Ní Cuilleanáin
.
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This article provoked a literary row. Anne Stevenson
wrote a rejoinder to it in PN Review number 88, where she voiced admiring respect for EB
's poems, but took issue with with what she read...
Textual Production
Anne Stevenson
In her reply to Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
's accusation of subtle sneering,
qtd. in
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998.
85
AS
demands: Can't we please get away from hollow psychospeak . . . ? Behold, the mind-forged manacles, at it again...
Textual Production
Medbh McGuckian
A collection of MMG
's personal and literary papers, Medbh McGuckian Papers, 1969-1994 is housed among manuscript sources for women's history among the Special Collections of the Robert W. Woodruff Library
at Emory University
in...
8 January 1995: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (who has typically issued...
Writing climate item
8 January 1995
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
(who has typically issued her books of poetry in Irish first, before English translations appeared by others) explained her linguistic policy in the New York Times Book Review.
Romanets, Maryana. “Cartographers of Desire: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Versus the Love Canon in Irish Poetry”. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, Vol.
29
, June–Sept. 2002, pp. 321-42.
321-3, 334
Texts
Dhomhnaill, Nuala Ní. The Water Horse. Translators McGuckian, Medbh and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Gallery Press, 1999.