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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Modern Irish"”.
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Replacing the Priest: Tradition, Politics, and Religion in Early Modern Irish Drama.
… and Lady Augusta Gregory argued the need for an Irish theatre that was demonstrative of the Irish people, returning to the literary traditions to the Celtic heritage. What resulted was a questioning of religion and politics in Ireland, specifically the Catholic Church and its priests. Yeat's own …
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Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel: Studies in Form and Meaning from James Joyce to Anne Enright
This dissertation examines how the modern Irish novel negotiates shifting cultural conceptions of death and dying across the twentieth century. Analyzing a cross-section of important novels — James Joyce’s Ulysses, Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room, Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies, John McGahern’s The …
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The pre-19th-century manuscript tradition and textual transmission of the Early Modern Irish tale Oidheadh Con Culainn: a preliminary study
The Early Modern Irish recension of the tale relating Cú Chulainn’s death, Oidheadh Con Culainn, has received comparatively little scholarly attention, especially compared with its Early Irish counterpart, Aided Con Culainn. Consequently, little is known about the textual transmission and …
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Stylistic Means and Devices in Contemporary Irish Short Stories /
Irish literature distinguishes from English literature that is why it is analyzed separately. The most common supposition about Irish fiction is that the Irish are especially gifted as short story writers. Ben Forkner in his edited book Modern Irish Short Stories (1980:21) pointed out that the …
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Collective Leadership in Contemporary Irish Nationalism: The Writing of Gerry Adams
… its origins to Theobald Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen, founded in Belfast on October 18, 1791, Irish Republicanism has evolved from its original anti-sectarian, Lockean principles as represented by Tone1 to a modern movement encompassing national self-determination, antisectarianism, cultural …
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Dlíthe Luath-Ghaeilge: Staidéar ar Theanga agus ar Dhátú Gluaiseanna agus Tráchtanna
… the language and dating of later medieval Irish legal writing. Three texts are analysed: the ‘Marriage Disputes’ commentary, edited by Fergus Kelly (2014); the glosses and commentaries copied by Scribe 1 of Cáin Lánamna (ed. Charlene Eska, 2010); and the glosses on Gúbretha Caratniad, …
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"'The Dead Travel Fast'": The Gothic Politics of Irish Literature
… by English authors it finds significant use in Irish literature. There has been debate over how this genre should be defined, but I would suggest that instead of trying to force the Gothic into the categories of mode/tradition or Catholic/Protestant, it should be allowed to enact its own …
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The Government's Executions Policy During the Irish Civil War 1922 -1923
… Provisional/Free State Government during the Irish Civil War (1922–23). Following the Irish War of Independence (1919–21) and subsequent Anglo-Irish Treaty Ireland‘s previously united nationalist movement fractured into opposing factions. The ensuing Civil War, fought between the Government …
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Aspects of Verbal Noun Constructions in Medieval Irish and Welsh With Reference to Similar Constructions in Basque
… has been collected primarily from Old and Middle Irish texts, but some reference is made to Modern Irish where this seems helpful in order to illustrate developments. The observations made are compared to findings on the use of verbal nouns in a closely related language, Middle Welsh, and an …
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Leadership and virtue: a character analysis of Fionn mac Cumhaill and King Arthur in the later medieval period
… Arthur and the warrior-hero Fionn of the Irish tradition have similarities in character. Oliver Padel, in his Arthur in Medieval Welsh Literature, discusses briefly the similarity between the Arthur of the earliest Welsh literature and Fionn, noting that the Arthur of the early Welsh is …
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The Dublin Medical Press and medical authority in Ireland 1850 -1890
Nineteenth-century Ireland saw the rise of modern Irish nationalism, sweeping changes in land reform, the growth o f a new bourgeois class and the parallel decline and collapse of eighteenth-century social structures. In short, it was a period that crystallised the major social features of modem …
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To undo the conquest: nationalism, socialism and the Irish Revolution, 1910-1936
… and structures that produced and shaped the Irish Revolution and the subsequent modern Irish state. The project essentially asks: what accounts for limited socioeconomic change during and after the Irish Revolution? It argues that nineteenth-century Ireland emerged as a partial colony, that …
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Mar Gur Dream Sí Iad Atá Ag Mairiúint Fén Bhfarraige: ML 4080 the Seal Woman in Its Irish and International Context
… between The Mermaid Legend and other Irish and Scottish traditions about seals and mermaids. I conclude that they represent a stable body of belief concerning such beings, and relate to broader concerns about the relationship between humans and their environment. In my third chapter, I …
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An annotated edition of two Irish translations of Bernard de Gordon, De Decem Ingeniis
… edition of two hitherto unedited Early Modern Irish medical treatises. These consist of two independent Irish translations of the same Latin source, the medical treatise De decem ingeniis curandorum morborum (DDI) written by Bernardus de Gordonio (Bernard of Gordon, c.1258–before 1330). …
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The lower hand: New perspectives on performance-practice evidence in Edward Bunting’s early-irish-harp field transcriptions of the 1790s
The early Irish harp was the aristocratic musical instrument of Ireland, and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, for 800+ years until c. 1800. Knowledge of the instrument is weak since it has been replaced by the modern Irish harp. Repertory survives in field transcriptions made by Edward …
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Irish disability: Postcolonial narratives of stunted development
… Ireland, Patrick Kavanagh defines his Irish anti-hero by the “impotent worm on his thigh,” a “no-target gun” that represents his purposeless masculinity as life becomes “dried in [his] veins.” Twenty years later, Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Trilogy presents the coming-of-age tale …
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Queering Irish Women's Writing in the Twentieth Century
… examines the haunted quality of Ireland’s modernity 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 …
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Talking back: audience collaboration and intervention in modernist and postwar drama
… represent a hitherto unrecognized strand of modernist and postwar conceptions of the audience‑actor relationship. Auden, for instance, viewed spectators as part of the “troupe,” stating that if “you are seeing and hearing you are co-operating.” Auden’s perspective differs greatly from other …
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Minorites, military service, and the legacies of post-war reconstruction in the British Isles, 1918-1939
… ex-service organisations by Jewish and Irish veterans of the Great War.