‘My city’s million voices chiding me’: ‘Answerability’ and Modern Irish Working-Class Writers

Michael Pierse

doi:10.7588/worllitetoda.87.6.0051

‘My city’s million voices chiding me’: ‘Answerability’ and Modern Irish Working-Class Writers

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Paula Meehan, Martin Lynch, and Dermot Bolger serve as “secret matadors” for their communities: their commitment assumes the time-honored, if at times onerous, mantle of the working-class writer as voice of the voiceless.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	51-54
Journal	World Literature Today
Volume	87
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7588/worllitetoda.87.6.0051
Publication status	Published - 01 Nov 2013

Keywords

Paula Meehan
Martin Lynch
Dermot Bolger
Irish studies
Working-class writers
Urban culture

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Literature and Literary Theory

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‘My city’s million voices chiding me’: ‘Answerability’ and Modern Irish Working-Class Writers

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