The Rising of the Moon

Ella O'Dwyer received an MA from Durham University and a PhD from the University of Ulster, while serving almost fourteen years in prison for alleged conspiracy to cause explosions in England. She is author of The Rising of the Moon (Pluto Press, 2003).

1. Introduction: Reading Institutions, Power, Control and Identity


Obstructing Discourse


Releasing Response


Can we go on?


2. Who Fears to Speak: Silence and Anonymity in the National Discourse


Past and Present


Empire Speak


Immediate and Terrible War


Cognitive Control


A Culture of Silence


Stepping Stones


Revolution and Reaction


Culture and Colonisation


Calling the Tune


3. When Slavery’s Night is Ore: The Minefield of Meaning


Stalking Knowledge


The Booby Trap


The Big Idea


Partitionist Thought


Trojan Forces


Cogni-phobia


4. The Inquisition: A View of The Present State of Ireland


Seclusion,


Virus in the System,


Driven to Death,


Power and the Absentee,


5. The Split: Doing the Joined Up Writing


Acute Amnesia,


Unholy Alliance,


The State of the Nation,


The Political Unconscious,


6. The Threshold: Standing on the Threshold of Another Trembling World


Arrested Discourse,


Stammered Delivery,


Border and Last Frontier,


Spell binding language,


7. The Rising of the Moon


References


Index