Candice
Scotland and Ireland: James Kelman, Paul Muldoon, Brian Friel, Irving Walsh,
Edwin Morgan, Seamus Heaney, John Montague, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochead, Alison
Flett, Derek Mahon, Tom Paulin, John Banville, Alisdair Gray and Alisdair
Gray and Alisdair Gray. And more and more.
And Wales?
david
----- Original Message -----
From: Candice Ward <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: Wales
> David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
> <But any honest response to Welsh culture today has to compare it with
that
> of Scotland or Ireland now and I'm afraid the comparison is not
favourable.>
>
> Why?
>
> And what would be "honest" about a response that compared Welsh culture
with
> those of two other countries with two different native languages, neither
of
> which is Welsh?
>
> With all due respect, David, the only possible basis for a comparison
among
> Wales, Scotland, and Ireland (the South, presumably) is the perspective of
> the has-been colonial power common to the histories of all three--a
vantage
> point you might be said to occupy geographically, but which hardly seems
> consistent with the stances you usually take here politically.
>
> So, what gives? I wonder, after having followed this exchange between you
> and Matthew for the last couple of days, if it hasn't really moved beyond
> the issue of useage (i.e., "provincial").
>
> Bemusedly,
>
> Candice
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