title: \Every move is punctuated\
abstract: Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland underwent political, social, and economic changes in the late twentieth century that resulted in changing relationships between self, place, and space. I read poets from across Ireland and analyze how representations of space relate to cultural and individual identity. I argue that poetry can define space without establishing boundaries and while allowing for, and even depending upon, the experience of simultaneous and contradictory meaning. My projec