@inbook{99ceb78e133941638f7746af9242a12e,
title = "“A Self-Interested Silence”: Silences Identified and Broken in Peter Lennon{\textquoteright}s Rocky Road to Dublin (1967)",
abstract = "This chapter examines Irish cinema in the first half of the twentieth century, in particular representations of the clergy, in light of the existence of Ireland{\textquoteright}s “architecture of containment” (Smith, {\'E}ire-Ireland 36:111–130, 2001) and framed with regard to Antonio Gramsci{\textquoteright}s conception of hegemony and “common sense” (Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci. Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1971). It considers Peter Lennon{\textquoteright}s 1967 documentary Rocky Road to Dublin as a key text in identifying the “self-interested silence” that has prevailed with regard to clerical control in Ireland up to our contemporary moment, the structures that maintained that silence, and the film{\textquoteright}s important role in providing one of the first forums for that silence to be broken.",
keywords = "Irish Catholic Church, Irish film, Peter Lennon, Rocky Road to Dublin, Silence",
author = "Se{\'a}n Crosson",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023, The Author(s).",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-30455-2\_8",
language = "English",
series = "New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "151--166",
booktitle = "New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature",
}