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  • Chapter 13 - Modernism, Belfast, and Early Twentieth-Century Ireland

  • from Part II - After Parnell
  • Edited by Joep Leerssen, Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • Book:
    Parnell and his Times
    Published online:
    03 December 2020
    Print publication:
    17 December 2020, pp 235-242

  • Summary

    Belfast as a literary subject is absent from the key texts of Irish modernism written in the early twentieth century, when Belfast was a major industrial city renowned for its shipbuilding. This chapter examines works by the few writers who wrote of the industrial city with its numerous working class that had built the Titanic: Richard Rowley, Sean O’Faolain, and Louis MacNeice, the latter two of whom excoriated the city. Even Joyce, who understood that Dublin was a quintessential modern city in Ulysses, ignored the city to its north, while Samuel Beckett in his novel Murphy, a work focused on London (that sought to do for London what Joyce had done for Dublin), chose to deal with industrial modernity only in a satiric and dismissive fashion.