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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Irish writers"”.
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The contribution of Irish writers of the eighteenth century to English literature
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Troubles in Irish writing and the influence of politics and religion
… and a particular atmosphere I found in Irish writing were due to more than the syntax of Hyberno-English. I was curious and to investigate further I returned to university to add English literature as a major to an existing degree in Psychology, Anthropology, Linguistics and the relevant …
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Rediscovering Frank O'Connor
"Minor" twentieth-century Irish writers such as Frank O'Connor have largely been neglected by a critical era which favors longer, more experimental fiction, following James Joyce's models. Both in practice and in theory, Frank O'Connor set standards for the modern short story beyond its current …
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The Lambeg Drum in Ulster
… references to the drum are scarce. Writers on Irish traditional music have ignored the Lambeg drumming tradition mainly for the reasons outlined above and because of the widely maintained view that 'the tradition' belongs to the ' Gaelic', 'native' and Catholic section of the …
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Creating the Irish Book: The Cultural and Aesthetic Work of the Dolmen Press
… printing craft. Yet, he fiercely believed that Irish writers must have a means of publication in their native country. Grounded in a belief in the unique literary voice of his country, Miller’s enterprise, and the ensuing literary movement he fostered, sought to produce and define the Irish …
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Matters of verisimilitude: transitional and transnational realisms in Ireland, 1880-1940
Critics often narrate the Irish Literary Revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a rejection of literary realism, specifically its English incarnation. Critics such as David Lloyd and Terry Eagleton have argued that the conditions of colonial Ireland – social instability, …
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Recovering children’s reading: “Queer Treasures” of the Children’s Collection in Cork Public Library, 1922–1939
… is concerned with advancing our knowledge of Irish children’s reading in the first two decades of the independence era. It establishes that the type of reading material in circulation by the public library of the Irish Free State’s second-largest city was substantially in conflict with the …
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Writers and Fighters: a comparative study of the Irish literary revival (1900 - 1922) with the revolutionary Chinese May Fourth literary era (1915 - 1927)
This study elucidates the link between Irish Revival Literature and the Chinese May Fourth cultural and political movement (1917-1923). Within the framework of Colonial and Postcolonial studies, the study provides a comparative analysis of works by W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) vs Lu Xun (1881-1936), Sean …
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The Influence of English Colonial Discourse on Early Irish Adaptations of Shakespeare, 1674-1754
The aim of this thesis is to examine the earliest Irish adaptations of Shakespeare and to consider to what extent contemporary English-Irish relations informed or shaped the texts. As such, this thesis seeks to build on recent interest in Irish responses to and revisions of Shakespeare, as …
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To Stage a Reading: The Actor in British Modernism
… the performers of the 1890s, these British and Irish writers reconceived the terms that are central to our understanding of modernism: personality, history, and tradition. As the late-Victorian stage passed out of living memory, these writers continued to invoke the actor in their treatments of …
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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 …
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Embodied female voices: sexuality and artistry in Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett
… rather than reducing women to symbols. As Irish writers, Joyce, Yeats, and Beckett can be positioned within a tradition of colonized subjects who are aware of the embodied nature of historical oppression. Identifying “feminization as colonization,” Anca Vlasopolos’ Working Papers in Irish …
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Mary Devenport O'Neill: writing the Free State
… of intellectual debate during the years of the Irish Free State. Her poetry and verse-plays appeared in Irish literary magazines throughout the ‘30s and ‘40s, most regularly in The Dublin Magazine, as well as being broadcast on Radio Éireann and performed by the Abbey Theatre and Lyric Theatre. …