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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Twentieth Century Ireland"”.
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Conor Cruise O'Brien, public intellectuals, and politics in twentieth-century Ireland
… is a study on the ‘public intellectual’ in mid-twentieth century Ireland, where the figure of the intellectual in politics was routinely maligned or altogether rejected by a broad cross-section of civil society for being insufficiently deferential to societal norms and out of touch with the …
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The Social and Cultural Politics of Heroic Masculinity in Twentieth Century Ireland: Imaging Michael Collins
… pertaining to him over the course of the twentieth century. This treatise interprets Michael Collins from a different perspective than previous analyses. The methodology is fashioned by a desire to develop a more substantial and comprehensive body of material that addresses the histories …
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Custody, care and criminality: clinical aspects of forensic psychiatric institutionalisation in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland
Ireland experienced a rapid rise in psychiatric committals in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While there have been (limited) explorations of selected aspects of the social, institutional and legislative factors underlying this phenomenon, there is a paucity of literature relating to …
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Institutional reform in mental healthcare in Ireland: the establishment of the Ardee Mental Hospital, 1933, in its historical context.
… in mental healthcare started in the eighteenth century with the construction of a small number of facilities in Dublin and Cork specifically for the treatment of mental illness. The 1800s witnessed the construction of an extensive network of district lunatic asylums in two phases: pre-Famine and …
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Queering Irish Women's Writing in the Twentieth Century
This dissertation 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 …
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Diphtheria, the public health response and the origins of the childhood immunisation programme in Ireland
… the childhood immunisation programme in Ireland was founded on a successful public health response to diphtheria. The success of the antidiphtheria public health intervention in Ireland has meant that no case of the disease has been recorded in the state for almost fifty years. This is a …
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'Who of us care to be seen assisting an old woman?': the institutional care of Ireland's elderly women, 1845 - 1908
… of the life course in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but also what it truly meant to be a woman in the past. Archival sources were used to compile thirty distinct databases, containing 12,925 entries. These represent 7,112 elderly women who resided in Irish workhouses, charitable …
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Literacy and Society in Ireland 1900-1980
… the Irish population was fully literate in the twentieth century. Unquestioned assertions that marginalize the illiterate Irish person are supported by a limited set of documents. This claim is revisited using a wider range of written materials, located in publicly-accessible archives. A …
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Vexatious Bodies in Modern Ireland
… examines discourses of the body in modern Ireland. It explores the development of official structures shaping the body, the habitus and ethos and the problematic disruptions of the body in nineteenth and twentieth-century Ireland. Official structures provided the scaffolding around which …
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"Nun, Married, Old Maid": Kate O'Brien's Fiction, Women and Irish Catholicism
… Kate O’Brien’s novels span late nineteenth early twentieth-century Ireland and are concerned with the lives of middle-class women. This thesis argues that O’Brien’s rendering of the interiority of the bourgeois family and the inner lives of middle-class women, reveals a site of the public …
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The question of gendered voice in some contemporary Irish novels by Brian Moore and John McGahern
… in some Irish Catholic communities in twentieth-century Ireland. With reference to novels by Brian Moore and John McGahern as well as to Judith Butler's theories of performativity and citational practices, it argues that gendered identities are constructed through the repetitive …
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A history of the Irish Red Cross Society, 1939-1971
… cultural, political and diplomatic history of twentieth century Ireland. This study assesses the impact of a number of significant public health and social care initiatives which the IRCS implemented and developed since its inception and how most of these were subsequently developed …
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Raymond Williams, cultural materialism and the break-up of Britain
… an interest in the emergent drama of nineteenth-century Scandinavia and twentieth-century Ireland and Wales. This theme is developed in Chapter Two, where I suggest that certain cultural and political experiences in Wales helped Williams to develop a cultural theory that was more generally …
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Irish disability: Postcolonial narratives of stunted development
… a scathing critique of rural idealism in mid-twentieth-century 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 …
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A cultural history of The Great Book of Ireland – Leabhar Mór na hÉireann
This thesis critically examines The Great Book of Ireland /Leabhar Mór na hÉireann (GBOI), a late-twentieth-century single-volume vellum manuscript created in Dublin between 1989 and 1993. Addressing a gap in both public and critical awareness of this modern manuscript, the thesis situates the GBOI …