the World Not Dead After All': Eilean Ni Chuilleanain's Work of Revival‪.‬

Help is at hand Though out of reach: The world not dead after all. 'The Architectural Metaphor'. (1) From models she has found in that protoypical cultural revival, the English Renaissance, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain has developed the 'copious' into a poetic strategy that we might call the work of revival. A scholar of early modern literature, she is drawn particularly to what she calls its 'relationship to sainthood' and to the incorporative, sacramental act. (2) Saint Teresa, 'a writer of herself', as Ni Chuilleanain notes, provides one example of copious language; Mary Magdalene offers another: 'she's the femininity and the body, the presence of the body--all this copious weeping. And the issue of blood--menstruation--comes into that as well'. (3) In her essay, 'Acts and Monuments of an Unelected Nation: The Cailleach Writes about the Renaissance', a scene of copious, and in this case masculine, bleeding introduces a discussion of the Ireland hidden by the official discourses and institutions of colonial rule, discourses to which Edmund Spenser contributed in providing the following description of the execution in 1579 of the 'traitor', Murrogh O'Brien: (4)