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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Irish Studies"”.
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Textual criticism and medieval Irish studies
… are those written by scholars of Old and Middle Irish in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Where Machan aims to articulate the textual and cultural factors that characterise Middle English works as Middle English, the purposes of this thesis are (a) to identify the underlying …
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The despotism of fact: Celticism and the transnational critique of capitalism in England and Ireland, 1865-1954
… I argue that by propagating a conception of the Irish subject as biologically resistant to capitalism and given to aesthetic creativity, Celticism crucially shaped the colonial definition of the Irish by the British, the decolonizing and postcolonial Irish responses to this definition, and the …
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Clusters and cluster initiatives: The role of collaboration and social capital in building a system of innovation in Ireland.
… (Sölvell et al 2003). This thesis builds on Irish research focused on the development of clusters. It reviews the state of development of clusters in two sectors of the Irish economy; the high-technology ICT/ software sector of the modern economy and the dairy sector of the traditional …
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Discourses of authenticity and national identity among the Irish diaspora in England
This thesis explores the ways in which Irish people in England draw on discourses of authenticity in constructing and articulating Irish identities. It is based on the theoretical assumption that identities are constructed through discourse, which is understood as a broad horizon of meaning-making. …
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Motherhood, Female Ageing and Samuel Beckett
… are not niche critical concerns in Beckett Studies, but central to Beckett’s aesthetics. Chapter Two focuses on how sexuality and reproduction come together in the figure of the mother or maternally identified women. The representation of fictional and semi-monstrous maternal figures is a …
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"The Problem Class"?: A Critical Analysis of Experiences of Schooling and Involvement with the Criminal Justice System.
Irish research into the formal educational experiences of people who have been, or who are, in prison compares poorly with international norms. Against this noticeable absence of Irish studies affording attention to the formative educational experiences of people who came became involved with the …
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Partners in Practice: Contemporary Irish Literature, World Literature and Digital Humanities
… the opportunities and implications afforded Irish literary studies by developments in the newly emergent disciplines of world literature and the digital humanities. Employing the world literature theories of Wai Chee Dimock, David Damrosch, Franco Moretti and Pascale Casanova in the critical …
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Supporting Children to Recognise and Manage their Anxiety
… misuse, and suicide in early adulthood. Irish studies show that one in three children are likely to have experienced a mental disorder by the time they are thirteen years old and by twenty-four years old, that number will have risen to one in two. Anxiety disorders are one of the top …
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The 'Uncreated' Voice of a Nation: James Joyce and the Twentieth Century Irish Bildungsroman
… a Nation: James Joyce and the Twentieth Century Irish Bildungsroman places James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in conversation with numerous later twentieth century Bildungsromane to argue that texts by Edna O’Brien, John McGahern, Roddy Doyle, Patrick McCabe, Jamie O’Neill, …
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Queering Irish Women's Writing in the Twentieth Century
… through the fiction of mid-twentieth-century Irish women writers Dorothy Macardle, Kate O’Brien, Elizabeth Bowen and Molly Keane. Seeking out the ghosts of modern Ireland, I turn to queer ways of reading, paying attention to the marginal and the disavowed. This new reading queers the archive …
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Emyr Estyn Evans and the cultural identity of Northern Ireland 1929-1969
This thesis studies the life, works and enduring legacy of Prof. Estyn Evans, Professor of Geography at Queens University Belfast from 1929 – 1969. It presents original research into the achievements of an academic whose contributions extended far beyond the walls of the university in which he …
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Absence and presence: investigating the cinematic representation of Northern Irish unionists (1981-2020)
… cinematic representation in relation to Northern Irish unionists and focusses on feature-length fiction films released between 1981-2020. Prior to this contemporary period, only a handful of mainstream cinema releases featured identifiable unionist characters and their culture. The thesis examines …
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Forms of dissent in the work of James Simmons and Padraic Fiacc: poetry, politics, and publishing in Northern Ireland, 1960-1980
… two poets as important figures in the Northern Irish poetry scene of the 1960s and 1970s, and considers how their work deviates aesthetically from that of some of their better-known poetic contemporaries. I trace the lines of influence between Simmons, Fiacc, and peers such as Seamus Heaney, …
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Embodied female voices: sexuality and artistry in Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett
… feminine body. Positioned at the nexus of studies on the body and sexuality in modernist literature, this project ultimately addresses the complex ways that “differences” among women are understood culturally, politically, and epistemologically. By rendering sexuality more obviously as a …
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Women Writing Folklore: Politics of Folk and Fairy-tale Collections from Italian and Irish Islands (1870-1920)
… framework. By focusing on Italian and Irish insular contexts, this research investigates the conceptions of ‘the folk’ underpinning these women’s folkloric writings, the use they make of the folk material at their disposal and their attitudes towards vernacular languages. This thesis …
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“We've All To Grow Old”: Representations of Agingas Reflections of Cultural Change on the Celtic Tiger Irish Stage
This dissertation discusses the work of four Irish playwrights: Sebastian Barry, Marina Carr, Conor McPherson, and Elaine Murphy. Specifically, it investigates the inclusion, by these playwrights, of “elderly” characters in their plays written between 1995 and 2010—a period of …
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At Casey’s Altar – exploring the life and music of Bobby Casey
… life and music of Bobby Casey (1926-2000), an Irish traditional fiddle player born and raised in Annagh, a small townland in rural West Clare, who is regarded as one of the finest exponents of Irish traditional fiddle playing of the twentieth century. Utilising an comprehensive multi-method …