Mother Ireland (Symbolic character)

found: Work cat.: 91186527: Loftus, B. Mirrors : William III & Mother Ireland, c1990:p. 80 (Mother Ireland remains a figure with a strong appeal for Irish artists.) p. 83 (Mother Ireland's appeal derives not only from her political significance, but also from her fusing with other roles given to the female figure by artistic conventions. She is not only the country in which Irish artists live, or from which they have departed, but ... the wife, the muse, the model, and the quintessential focus of ambiguity.) p. 86 (Mother Ireland and the women associated with her can never be fitted into set categories, as submissive or aggressive, fertile or sterile, and therein lies the major difference between them and such male emblems of loyalism as William III. A loyalist leader tend to eternal monumental rectitude, but Mother Ireland and her entourage are two-faced, both beautiful and horrific, subservient and manipulative.)