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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Aran Islands"”.
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Greek Elements in John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea
… cast a shadow upon Synge during his visit to the Aran Islands making him Greek-minded in the presence of tragedy. |Though Synge’s tragic drama, Riders to the Sea, is Greek in essence, it throbs with life — a simple common life as felt and seen and sung by Synge among isolated humanity, the poor …
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Scéalta Dharach Uí Dhireáin: A linguistic and anthropological analysis
… a collection of folklore from the largest of the Aran Islands, Co. Galway, and offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the material from both a linguistic and anthropological perspective. The material was collected in 1933 by renowned scholar Robin Flower from local Aran Island storyteller Darach …
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Troubled Trinity: Love, Religion and Patriotism in Liam O'Flaherty's First Novel, <em>Thy neighbour's wife</em>.
<p>The focus of this research is a detailed analysis of Liam O'Flaherty's first published novel, <em>Thy Neighbour's Wife</em>, as an underlying autobiographical portrait depicted in the main character, Fr. Hugh McMahon. Although never touted as an autobiography, this study shows O'Flaherty drew …