An claochló i bhfilíocht Sheáin Uí Ríordáin
- Submitting institution
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University of the Highlands and Islands
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 8281818
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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- Book title
- Ní Insint Dán ach Bheith : Aistí ar Smaointeoireacht an Ríordánaigh
- Publisher
- An Ceathrú Póilí
- ISBN
- 9781911330110
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- The concept of claochló, or transformation, is acknowledged as pivotal and pervasive in the work of mid-twentieth century Irish-language poet Seán Ó Ríordáin. This paper analyses the relationship between transformation and empathy, arguing that transformation manifests as either integrative or shattering. In certain poems the metaphor of transformation integrates formerly separate entities, largely by means of empathy. In others, from which empathy is markedly and ironically absent, transformation shatters the stable identity of an induvial by means of the metaphor of multiplication.