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Irish disability: Postcolonial narratives of stunted development
In his 1941 poem The Great Hunger, a scathing critique of rural idealism in mid-twentieth-century Ireland, Patrick Kavanagh defines his Irish anti-hero by the “impotent worm on his thigh,” a “no-target gun” that represents his purposeless masculinity as life becomes “dried in [his] veins.” Twenty …