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Gregory Ghosts: Haunting Irishness

by Kevin Reilly

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 In this book the ghosts of Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) and eight of her family members and colleagues ponder how they helped shape Irelandâ€™s place in the modern world through her leadership of the Irish Literary Renaissance. As ghosts they can see the past, present, and future as they make their assessments.
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Gregory Ghosts: Haunting Irishness

by Kevin Reilly

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 This book is a kind of Irish ghost story. In it the ghosts of Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) and eight of her family members and colleagues look back over their livesand sometimes forward beyond themto try to make sense of them, their times, and one another. Theirs were all turbulent lives played out on the western edge of Europe at a time of great change. Lady Gregory helped shape that change at a pivotal moment in Irelands development into a modern nation state. The authors fresh approach questions and complicates the image of her as a prim Victorian workhorse. Setting her in the midst of the personal chatter of her departed family, lovers, friends, and collaborators brings home how the historical Irish moment found her just when it needed her. Melding scholarship and creative work, Kevin Reillys Gregory Ghosts vividly explores the origins of the Irish Literary Revival through fictionalizedthough scrupulously factualnarratives written in the voices of the major players. The presence of Lady Gregory herself, in all her ambition and contradictions, shines through all of the lives that Reilly has so imaginatively re-created here. James Silas Rogers, Editor Emeritus, New Hibernia Review A fresh, vibrant, and fascinating contribution to the scholarly and popular literature on the Irish dramatic movement and the wider Irish Literary Renaissance. James Donnelly, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison This book captivated me by way of its engaging imaginative premise, its originality, and its attention to historical detail. Dr. Kay Martinovich, School of Theatre and Dance, Northern Illinois University
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Prime The Pump - Catholicism, Arts Policy And The Post-War Irish Amateur Drama Movement 1949 To 1969

by Ian G. Kennedy

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 The interface between Arts Council policy, Catholicism, and amateur drama provides an access point for understanding post-war Irish society. Exploring the cultural impact of amateur drama on the modernization of Irish society.
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A Nation, Not A Parish - The Homewhere-S And Elsewhere-S Of 1930s Irish Culture

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 The purpose of the book is to rebuild the milieu of the 1930s by observing the dialogues between the homewhere-s and elsewhere-s where Irelandâ€™s cultural legacy and cultural products have been shaped.
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Conocimiento: Writing Irish Borderlands

by Eamonn Wall

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 Conocimento: Writing Irish Borderlands is an exploration of the roles played by borders, borderlands, and liminal spaces in the work of a selection of Irish and Irish American writers. The study is guided by the philosophy and practice of Gloria AnzaldÃºa, author of Borderlands La Frontera; The New Mestiza and other works.
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Unbecoming Catholic - Being Religious In Contemporary Ireland

by Inglis Tom Inglis

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 This book provides an insight into how the Catholic Church came to dominate Irish society and the hearts and minds of Irish people. Inglis argues that the decline of the Church does not mean that people are not religious.
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The Sdlp, Politics And Peace - The Mark Durkan Interviews

by Graham Spencer

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 A book of interviews with one of the key players in the Northern Ireland peace process. Mark Durkan of the SDLP was centrally involved in negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and the efforts to implement power-sharing that followed.
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Lost, Unhappy And At Home: The Impact Of Violence On Irish Culture - Volume I: Literature

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 This volume explores the impact of violence and resistance on Irish society, and their representations in fiction. Its fifteen chapters, divided into four sections, violence against women, against minorities, historical trauma, and violence in the context of The Troubles, offer new insights into the way violence has shaped Irelandâ€™s history.
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The Great Pretenders - Genre, Form, And Style In The Film Musicals Of John Carney

by Carlos Menendez Otero

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 This book focuses on Once (2006), Begin Again (2013), and Sing Street (2016), to date the most successful feature films by John Carney (Dublin, 1972).
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Politic Words - Writing Women | Writing History

by Gerald Dawe

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 Politic Words reflects five decades of Gerald Dawe writing about and discussing Irish literature, both inside the university classroom and in various literary and academic forums.
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Voices From The Margins - Gender And The Everyday In Womens Pre- And Post- Agreement Troubles Short Fiction

by Mercedes Del Campo

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 Voices from the Margins explores how women writers of Troubles short fiction have rewritten the Â« official story Â» of the conflict and the peace process by placing thematic emphasis on gender and the everyday and by foregrounding the personal histories behind the public History of the Troubles.
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Irish Lesbian Writing Across Time - A New Framework For Rethinking Love Between Women

by Anna Charczun

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 Following the recent advancements in Irish lesbian politics, North and South, lesbian writing is attracting more attention from scholarly audiences, making this body of work particularly timely. Irish Lesbian Writing Across Time is an attestation of a historical presence of lesbians in Irish literature, as it analyses the progression of Irish lesbian narrative over the past two centuries, while verifying key characteristics of time periods that correspond with the model of development. It also investigates Irish lesbian activist literature, writing from diaspora, and fiction published around the time of the decriminalisation of homosexual acts and later the inclusion of same-sex marriage in Irish and Northern Irish laws. The book examines authors such as Maria Edgeworth, Sarah Grand, George Egerton, Elizabeth Bowen, Kate OBrien, Edna OBrien, Emma Donoghue, Mary Dorcey, Anna Livia, Shani Mootoo, and Hilary McCollum, whose inclusion of lesbian desire to the Irish literary canon proves an invaluable contribution.
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The Picture Postcard - A New Window Into Edwardian Ireland

by Ann Wilson

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 The Picture Postcard, a new window into Edwardian Ireland uses the material culture of the picture postcard as a lens through which to examine life on the island of Ireland during the Edwardian period (1902-10). Picture postcards became extremely popular worldwide at the start of the twentieth century, when literally hundreds of billions of them were produced and sold. This book draws on postcard collections to access the everyday lives of people who rarely make it into conventional historical narratives, and to make connections in an Irish context between their «small histories» and broader, well-studied discourses such as identity, nationalism, empire, modernity, emigration, tourism and the roles of women.
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Memorialising The Magdalene Laundries - From Story To History

by Nathalie Sebbane

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 Since the publication of James Smiths groundbreaking book on the Magdalene laundries in 2007, many developments have made the issue even more topical. Even though the lack of access to archives and records of religious orders remains a major obstacle to writing a comprehensive history of the Magdalene laundries, the accessibility of witness testimony and the publication of the McAleese report in 2013 have opened up new avenues of research and methodology. Written from the perspective of a French academic using French theory, holocaust studies and memory studies to analyze an eminently Irish question, the present publication proposes to make an assessment of the way the issue has evolved from being a media story at the onset of the twenty-first century to becoming a subject worthy of historians attention. If the McAleese report was a formative moment in anchoring the Magdalene laundries into the national narrative, this book will show how it also contributed to dis-remembering the laundries by offering a doctored and state-sponsored version of what really happened within the institutions and contributed to preventing proper memorialization. It will show how in the absence of official memorialization, cultural and activist memorial practices have emerged and developed to ensure that this particularly painful and infamous episode in the history of the nation state does not fall into oblivion.
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Northern Ireland After The Good Friday Agreement - Building A Shared Future From A Troubled Past?

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 The current «decade of centenaries» and commemorations on both sides of the Irish Sea is providing an opportunity both to reflect upon significant events and challenges that the island of Ireland has been confronted with in the past, and also to contemplate and focus on the future. This multi-disciplinary volume owes much to the ongoing debate within Northern Ireland, as an integral part of the conflict transformation process, on how to build a shared and better future for all citizens out of a divided and traumatic past. Drawing on the cross-disciplinary nature of Irish Studies, the authors from the fields of history, literary and cultural studies, politics and sociology explore the legacy of the Troubles and the consequences for Northern Ireland more than twenty years after the Good Friday Agreement.
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Irish Literature In The British Context And Beyond - 21st Century Perspectives From Kyoto

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 Providing unique and new perspectives that have been evolved mostly from papers read at an international conference held in Kyoto, Japan, this collection attempts to reassess and explore the values of Irish literature in a global context.
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New Cartographies, Nomadic Methodologies - Contemporary Arts, Culture And Politics In Ireland

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 This volume embraces the critical turn of new materialism in order to address how creative and social practices allow for the definition of alternative subject positions and to examine how power relations operate at an embodied, relatable level: it proposes to think global but act local.
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Trauma And Identity In Contemporary Irish Culture

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 Makes a case for the value of trauma and memory studies as a means of casting new light on the meaning of Irish identity in a number of contemporary Irish cultural practices, and of illuminating present-day attitudes to the past.
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Recalling The Celtic Tiger

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 This book looks at the effects, symptoms and consequences of the period in Irish culture known as the Celtic Tiger. It traces the critical pathway from boom to bust through an analysis of events, personalities and products. The short entries offer a sense of the lived experience of this seismic period in contemporary Irish society.
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Irish-Argentine Identity In An Age Of Political Challenge And Change, 18751983

by Patrick Speight

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 The Irish immigrants who arrived in Argentina between 1840 and 1890 were welcomed. Argentina was different from the English-speaking destinations familiar to other Irish emigrees: the historical antagonism between Catholicism and Protestantism was absent, and Irish immigrants were spared the discrimination experienced by those who settled in America. Argentina was regarded as part of Britains «informal empire», and the Irish benefitted economically and socially from being designated ingleses. The co-incidence of interest that developed between Irish-Argentines and British and American capital produced an economically successful community that was keen to protect its social status. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the Irish-Argentine community in a hundred years. Using the archive of the Southern Cross, the Irish-Argentine newspaper, it analyses the divisions that opened up in this community as it responded to 1916, the two World Wars, Peronism, the military dictatorship, and the Falklands/Malvinas war. For generations the Southern Cross reflected and reinforced the conservative values of the community. But in 1968 a new editor would challenge the community over its failure to live up to what he considered to be the essence of being Irish: support for human rights and empathy with the poor.
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Ireland And The North

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 Ireland and the North is engaged with the relationship between Ireland and the Nordic countries. Chapters include a wide-range of areas including art history, literary history and theory, archaeology, antiquarianism, media studies and political analysis. The book moves beyond the predominant literary paradigm in Irish Studies, expanding the field.
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Navigating Ireland'S Theatre Archive - Theory, Practice, Performance

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 The historiography of Irish theatre has largely been dependent on in-depth studies of the play-text as the definitive primary source. This volume explores the processes of engaging with the documented and undocumented record of Irish theatre and broadens the concept of evidential study of performance through the use of increasingly diverse sources. The archive is regarded here as a broad repository of evidence including annotated scripts, photographs, correspondence, administrative documents, recordings and other remnants of the mechanics of producing theatre. It is an invaluable resource for scholars and artists in interrogating Irelands performance history. This collection brings together key thinkers, scholars and practitioners who engage with the archive of Irish theatre and performance in terms of its creation, management and scholarly as well as artistic interpretation. New technological advances and mass digitization allow for new interventions in this field. The essays gathered here present new critical thought and detailed case studies from archivists, theatre scholars, historians and artists, each working in different ways to uncover and reconstruct the past practice of Irish performance through new means.
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Giving Shape To The Moment - The Art Of Mary O'Donnell: Poet, Novelist And Short Story Writer

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 This is the first book to provide a critical assessment of the work of the Irish author Mary ODonnell. The essays collected here engage with ODonnells writing across multiple genres and explore the themes and preoccupations that have characterized her oeuvre. Alongside her creative work, ODonnells has been a steady and continuing voice for many years within the world of theatre criticism, book reviewing, essay writing, radio broadcasts and cultural commentary. As a writer, ODonnells principal themes include contemporary Irish society, the position of women in Ireland and the role of the artist. Throughout her career, her approach has been unconventional and her work has sometimes presented a challenge to the status quo. The contributors to this volume illuminate ODonnells role as a humanist writer searching for truth at all costs, through the fictive lives of her often unusual characters, and through the emotional range and depth of her poetry.
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The Reimagining Ireland Reader - Examining Our Past, Shaping Our Future

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 To mark the fact that the Reimagining Ireland series will soon have one hundred volumes in print, this book brings together a selection of essays from the first fifty volumes, carefully chosen to give a flavour of the diversity and multidisciplinary nature of the series. Following a chronological order, it begins with an essay by Luke Gibbons tracing the roots of modernity from the middle decades of the nineteenth century and concludes with Michael Cronins discussion of time and place in global Ireland. In between, the reader will find a rich variety of essays on literary criticism, poetry, drama, photography, modernity, advertising, visual culture, immigration and feminism. This is a collection that will appeal to anyone with a scholarly or personal interest in the cultural forces that have shaped modern Ireland. It is also a testament to the rude good health of contemporary Irish studies, showcasing the work of a talented array of established and emerging scholars currently working in the area.
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