학술논문
"A Self-Interested Silence": Silences Identified and Broken in Peter Lennon's Rocky Road to Dublin (1967)
Document Type
Book
Author
Crosson, Seán (University of Galway)
Source
pp. 151-166 IN: Caneda-Cabrera, M. Teresa; Carregal-Romero, José; Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction: Silences That Speak. London, England ; Palgrave Macmillan (London); 2023. (xix, 246)
Subject
treatment of silence ; relationship to sexual abuse ; by Catholic clergy
Language
Abstract
This chapter examines Irish cinema in the first half of the twentieth century, in particular representations of the clergy, in light of the existence of Ireland’s “architecture of containment” (Smith, Éire-Ireland 36:111–130, 2001) and framed with regard to Antonio Gramsci’s conception of hegemony and “common sense” (Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci. Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1971). It considers Peter Lennon’s 1967 documentary Rocky Road to Dublin as a key text in identifying the “self-interested silence” that has prevailed with regard to clerical control in Ireland up to our contemporary moment, the structures that maintained that silence, and the film’s important role in providing one of the first forums for that silence to be broken.