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Article: But the Irish Sea Betwixt Us: Ireland, Colonialism, and Renaissance Literature.
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2002
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But the Irish Sea Betwixt Us: Ireland, Colonialism, and Renaissance Literature. By ANDREW MURPHY. (English Literature, History, & Culture) Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 1999. xii + 227 pp. $34.
The recent proliferation of work on the status of Ireland within English Renaissance Studies by the likes of Nicholas Canny, Brendan Bradshaw, Andrew Hadfield, and Willy Maley (amongst others) has created a very crowded market, a situation which to some extent overwhelms Andrew Murphy's latest study But the Irish Sea Betwixt Us. Murphy's central argument is that from the twelfth century onwards, 'colonialism in Ireland necessarily took a unique form, so that ...