the places where he grew up: "at the foot of Mount Pelier, in the barony of Uppercross, in the civil parish of Tallaght, in the Poor Law Union of South Dublin, in the Catholic parish of Rathfarnam, in the townland of Knocklyon, in the village of Firhouse, in a house facing onto a weir on the River Dodder" (100). the new confessionalism" Smyth "perceive to be animating modern Irish culture" (99), the chapter provides geographical, geological, historical, and socio-political information about the places and spaces central to Smyth's personal development, i.e. In response to, and self-confessed "critical engagement with. He thus invokes (apparently unwittingly) the early feminist tenet that the personal is political-or, in this context, critical and spatial. IN THE THIRD CHAPTER OF Gerry Smyth's Space and the irish Cultural Imagination (titled "The Location of Criticism: Putting the 'I' into Ireland"), Smyth reminds us of academia's denial of "personal experiences as a respectable level of critical discourse" (95). GERRY SMYTH Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination Palgrave, 2001, $62.00
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