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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Irish culture"”.
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Adventures on Windswept Islands: Children's Literature, Adolescence, and the Possibilities of Irish Culture in the Work of Eilís Dillon.
… the child reader of, the world of Eilís Dillon's Irish children's novels illustrates the capacity for young adult literature to be an effective means of conveying problematic ideas to a young audience. Eilís Dillon uses the nostalgic realism of her west coast island stories to preserve, while at …
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Sex and Respectability in Ireland: A Chronology of Cultural Change
… understandings of sexual respectability in Irish culture. This study occurs at a time when Ireland is experiencing a belated modernity, yet grappling with a traumatic history of institutionalisation of persons deemed to have deviated from normative sexual values, that continues to re-emerge …
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The Spaces Between
… process of my creative work that focuses on my Irish heritage and the emotional repercussions of migration. These sculptures are inspired by the history, perseverance, and evolution of Irish culture. They explore my reactions to emigrating from Ireland to the United States. Together, these works …
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A Study of the Out-Of-Class Experiences of Saint Mary's College Students Studying in Maynooth, Ireland
… experiences fostered students' learning of the Irish culture, and (3) how the experiences influenced students' attitudes toward cultures other than their own.</p> <p><em>Methodology</em>. This study employed descriptive qualitative research. Focus groups were conducted to gather data used in …
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Embodying the nation: Post-colonial Irish women's fiction
"Irish literary criticism has long been interested in the politics of literature and its role in decolonizing Irish culture, but it has assumed such a strict separation between public and private that ""women's issues"" have not been considered political topics in Irish literary history and …
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Foreign bodies in the river of sound : seeking identity and Irish traditional music
This thesis investigates how musicians who play Irish traditional music, but do not identify themselves as Irish, understand their relationship to Irishness. The research was designed to interrogate frameworks for theorizing the articulation of music, identity and nation, emphasizing the need to …
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The Triple Spiral at Newgrange: Historical Research of its Signifigance and Implications for Art Therapy
<p>The Irish are a people of symbols. This work of historical research sought to answer the following questions: 1). What is the significance and meaning of the image of the triple spiral at Newgrange and 2). What are the implications of the meaning of the triple spiral for art therapy? Research …
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Kinship: Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind and the Irish Big House Genre
… of literature. Although various references to Irish culture permeate Gone with the Wind, the novel has not been compared to any Irish literature or mythology. This thesis compares Gone with the Wind with Irish Big House literature and mythology through the lens of biography and history. The …
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The Celtic Twilight as Reflected in the Two-Piano Works of Joan Trimble (1915-2000)
… The movement, which was created by the Anglo-Irish ruling classes as a method of maintaining their elite status in Ireland, initially began as a literary movement, but eventually branched out into other areas of Irish culture and society, such as sport, art, and music. Present generations are …
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Advent of the Everyday Cathleen: Katharine Tynan and Motifs of Irish Identity 1911-1921
… an esteemed author in the forefront of the Irish Literary Revival, frequented the social, political, and artistic circles of colleagues such as W.B. Yeats and George Russell (AE); alongside her male counterparts, she fostered friendships and collaborated in reciprocal mentorships that …
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Cartoon Saloon as Mythopoeic: Reimagining Irish Mythology through Animation
Cartoon Saloon, an Irish animation studio based in Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, explores themes of liminality, urbanization, and coming of age in its trio of Irish folklore-themed films. Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, and Wolfwalkers each explore Irish identity, folklore, and community through …
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Looking through the Cracked Looking Glass: Masculinity, Gaelic Sports and Revolutionary Thought in Ireland, 1884-1920
<p>This thesis will observe Foucauldian trends in Irish revolutionary history. Michel Foucault is a French social theorist who discerned the power dynamic in specific relationships. Foucault studied specific institutions such as prisons and insane asylums to view the relationship of power that …
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"Sung Out of the Void": Yeats's Folkloric Nationalism
… which Yeats exploits in his promotion of an Irish Literary Revival. Discovering a purpose and direction for his work in the late 1880's, Yeats hoped to produce a national and nationalistic literature which would emphasize the uniqueness of Irish culture: one that would pay homage to Ireland's …
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Roman Catholic women religious in Ireland, 1849-1907: self representations and public perceptions
… Catholic Church rapidly gained influence over Irish culture. This resulted in more people, particularly women, joining religious orders. While there has been significant research into the activities of female religious congregations in Ireland, very little has examined representations of women …
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The G.A.A. a Contested Terrain
… political ideology prevailing in nationalist Irish politics. Coupled with the Home Rule movement in which the right of alien governments having any constitutional right to interfere and infringe on the borders of another where contested. The GAA espoused to similar ideals, it believed in the …
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Thomas Davis's education policies: theory and practice
… impoverished and politically dependent. The Irish people had a subservient mentality, were mainly uneducated and were unaware of their potential. He believed that education would develop a self-reliant, self-sufficient people; it would create a new generation of leaders and citizens necessary …
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Learning by Wandering: Using Technology to Nourish the Spirit
… I reconnect first of all with my native ancient Irish culture. From this perspective, I gain an understanding of learning as a spiritual quest for transcendence effected through learning by wandering, and an insight into technology’s noble role in nourishing this hunger of the human spirit. I …
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"Eolas to Ma:" Construction of Postnational Space in the Interstitial Visions of Heaney, Carson and Morrissey
… Richard Kearney addresses the issue of the Irish community today. He notes how an Irish diaspora of seventy million "challenged the inherited definitions of state nationalism" (99). He then notices how "the Irish word for province is coiced which means fifth" (99) and, though contemporary …
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Projecting Ireland : the historical consciousness of Irish film in the 1990's
… wide-ranging yet largely unexplored territory of Irish cinema. I have confined my study to the 1990s (other than a brief overview of the Irish film industry in my Introduction) in an attempt to express the revolutionary global success that all aspects of Irish culture have experienced in this …
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