id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 4f16c24994w Ailbhe Darcy Lyric Strategies for the Secular Republic: Poetry and Religion in the New Ireland 2015 .txt text/plain 352 12 37 Their poems challenge the narrative in which Catholic Ireland is simply dead and gone, inviting us to think deeply about the legacy of organized religion in Ireland, and about the possibility, or otherwise, of moving imaginatively beyond that legacy into some different future. The work of these poets suggests that if we move on from Catholic Ireland too blithely, we risk losing something, too. cache/4f16c24994w.txt txt/4f16c24994w.txt