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  • Chapter 12 - English Ireland/Irish Ireland: the Poetry and Translations of J. J. Callanan

  • from Part III - Reputations
  • Edited by Claire Connolly, University College Cork
  • Book:
    Irish Literature in Transition, 1780–1830
    Published online:
    28 February 2020
    Print publication:
    12 March 2020, pp 242-256

  • Summary

    The position of the Cork poet J. J. Callanan (1795–1829) as a transitional figure between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Irish poetry is more complicated, and more revealing of its historical moment, than is implied in the usual assessments of Callanan as the first Irish poet to have found ways of reshaping poetry written in English to accommodate the formal qualities of poetry written in Irish. An analysis of Callanan’s one collection, The Recluse of Inchidoney (1829), paying particular attention to its use of doppelgangers and its indebtedness to Callanan’s English romantic contemporaries, makes it clear that Callanan occupied a conflicted, dual poetic space, informed by a desire to bring to light, in a fully sympathetic way, the Irish-speaking culture that was still flourishing in rural Ireland in the 1820s, but also recognising the force of Ireland’s English-speaking culture, grounded in a colonialist confidence, that had come to dominate Irish poetry in the eighteenth century.