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The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
...become bodies held together by ‘sinew of ivy’ and ‘knots of thorns’. There is no actual mention of cold, but the overall effect of the living room and its ‘bare frames’ is of a creature with all of its clothing and protective layers torn off. There is a sense of foreboding, which is echoed by the doom-laden simile of ‘a fleet of sinking ships.’ Shine...