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Medbh McGuckian Information
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 Medbh McGuckian (born 12 August 1950) is a poet from Northern Ireland. Born in Belfast, she was educated at a Dominican convent and Queen's University, Belfast. She has worked as a teacher in her native Belfast at St. Patrick's College, Knock and an...



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 Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
Medbh McGuckian, The Book of the Angel.(Book Review)
09/22/2004: 1,344 words, approx. 5 pages Medbh McGuckian, The Book of the Angel. Loughcrew: The Gallery Press, 2004. 85 pages. EUR 17.50 (hardback). In the Old Irish Liber Angueli, or 'Book of the Angel' Saint Patrick discusses his ecclesiastical position in Armagh with an angel. In this collection...
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 World Literature Today
Medbh McGuckian. The Currach Requires No Harbours.(Book review)
05/01/2008: 440 words, approx. 2 pages Medbh McGuckian. The Currach Requires No Harbours. Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Wake Forest University Press. 2007. 66 pages. $21.95 ($11.95 paper) ISBN 978-1-930630-33-8 This volume of poems illustrates a new focus on the spiritual life. Medbh McGuckian made her name as a poet...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Patricia Boyle Haberstroh
13,994 words, approx. 47 pages
 In the following essay, Haberstroh evaluates the language and style of McGuckian's poems in light of specific conflicts and ambivalences encountered by the contemporary Irish woman poet.
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Critical Essay by Guinn Batten
12,225 words, approx. 41 pages
 In the following essay, Batten explores the thematic and stylistic effects of “nothingness” or “absence” in the poetry of McGuckian and Thomas Kinsella.
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Critical Essay by Thomas Docherty
8,081 words, approx. 27 pages
 In the following essay, Docherty assesses McGuckian's poetry in terms of its concern with ritual, its “ idealist” subjectivity, and its links with surrealism.


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