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Medbh McGuckian

Medbh McGuckian. (http://english.emory.edu/Bahri/McGuckian.html). “I don’t think anyone can really be Irish in Ireland.  It is such a dreadful place.  It’s blood-sucked, you feel like you’re walking in blood.”. Black Virgin.

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Medbh McGuckian

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  1. MedbhMcGuckian (http://english.emory.edu/Bahri/McGuckian.html) • “I don’t think anyone can really be Irish in Ireland.  It is such a dreadful place.  It’s blood-sucked, you feel like you’re walking in blood.”

  2. Black Virgin

  3. “I know being a woman for me for a long time was being less, being  excluded, being somehow cheap, being inferior, being sub.  I associated  being a woman with being a Catholic and being Irish with being from the  North, and all of these things being not what you wanted to be.  If you  were a woman, it would have been better to be a man; if you were  Catholic, it would have been a lot easier to be Protestant; if you were from  the North, it was much easier to be from the South; if you were Irish, it  was much easier to be English.  So it was like everything that I was was  wrong; everything that I was was hard, difficult, and a punishment.” MedbhMcGuckian

  4. McGuckian says, “It’s like embroidery.  It’s very feminine, I guess.  They are very intricate, my poems, a weaving of patterns of in’s and out’s and contradictions, one thing playing off another”

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