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    <language>eng</language>
        <publisher>Journal of Irish Studies</publisher>
        <journalTitle>Estudios Irlandeses</journalTitle>
        <eissn>1699-311X</eissn>
            <publicationDate>2017-03-17</publicationDate>
        <volume>12</volume>
    <issue>12</issue>
        <startPage>1</startPage>
    <endPage>11</endPage>
    <publisherRecordId>6750</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng"><![CDATA[ From Irish Philosophy to Irish Theatre: The Blind (Wo)Man Made to See ]]></title>

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      <author>
        <name><![CDATA[ Einat Adar ]]></name>
        <affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
      </author>
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      <affiliationName affiliationId="1"><![CDATA[ Charles University Prague, Czech Republic ]]></affiliationName>
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        <abstract language="eng"><![CDATA[ This article traces the motif of the blind man made to see, also known as the Molyneux problem, from the writings of Irish philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries to 20th-century Irish plays. The narrative of restoring sight to the blind is taken as a paradigmatic example of overcoming a disability, with a cure that normalises the blind persons and allows them to reintegrate into society. The paper argues that this narrative was problematised by Irish philosophers and playwrights from Molyneux and Berkeley to Yeats, Synge, Beckett and Friel.
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          <keywords language="eng">
              <keyword>Blindness</keyword>
              <keyword>Irish Philosophy</keyword>
              <keyword>Social Relations</keyword>
              <keyword>Samuel Beckett</keyword>
              <keyword>Brian Friel</keyword>
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