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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"irishness"”.
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Paradigms of Irishness for Young People in Dublin
… post-independent Ireland point out how central Irishness has been within Irish society and also highlights how a sense of national identity has often been assumed as shared, natural and fundamentally taken for granted. Accepting that hegemonic understanding of Irishness change, so in 1900 – when …
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Cinema's Green is Gold: The Commodification of Irishness in Film
… thesis is concerned with the manners in which Irishness has become highly desirable and commodified, and the manifestations that commodification has taken in Irish film. In recognition that the Irish American diaspora holds a special regard for Irishness, I will explore reasons for the allure …
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The Irish Prince: Irishness in the Works of Oscar Wilde
… drama and poetry in criticism reveals, Wilde's Irishness is in his work more palpable than it might seem on Wilde's mother, the nationalist poet Speranza who Wilde's collections of fairy " " In the fourth chapter, Wilde's collection of " " discussed and Wilde's persona as Together with his …
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Cinema's Green is Gold: The Commodification of Irishness in Film
… thesis is concerned with the manners in which Irishness has become highly desirable and commodified, and the manifestations that commodification has taken in Irish film. In recognition that the Irish American diaspora holds a special regard for Irishness, I will explore reasons for the allure …
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“Everything and Nothing”: Exhibiting Irishness at the Chicago World Fair of 1893
… businesswomen, the Irish Villages presented an Irishness shaped by Ireland’s long history of colonial rule. For Irish Americans living in the United States during the late nineteenth century, the Irish Villages offered a particularly well-suited opportunity to present an identity that would …
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Blarney in St. Louie: Performing Irishness at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904
The dynamics of power between the privileged and those who must be subordinate to them was glaringly apparent at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. While natives from many countries were displayed in ethnographic villages, the Irish were represented in the Irish Industrial …
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Constructing Irishness: nationalism, archaeology and the historic built environment in an independent state
… that formal architecture did not accord with Irishness, as such appraisals were being made by the elite. Additionally, independent Ireland was keen to emphasise a native Irish identity, based in the west, and reinforced by icons of tradition including thatched vernacular houses and rural …
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The negotiation of an Irish identity in New York 2008 to 2019
… a person’s life, what the different forms of Irishness are, and how particular dominant forms of Irishness are made visible while others remain covert and dormant. I will also examine motives behind association with and disassociation from Irishness, the fluidity surrounding these connections …
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Regular Wild Irish: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Irish American Fiction
… ways in which Irish American writers construct "Irishness" in fictional texts which borrow from and respond to literary and cultural discourses in the United States and Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It analyzes the short fiction and novels of Irish immigrant and Irish …
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Discourses of authenticity and national identity among the Irish diaspora in England
… collective identity within discourses of Irishness as diasporic and as a minority identity within multicultural England. It is argued that 'authenticity' is central to both these positionings, but that personal constructions of authentic Irishness may differ from hegemonic constructions. …
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The Representation of Celtic Tiger Irish Masculinity in Hollywood Cinema: 1994-2008
… and affected the meanings attached to Irishness at a local and global level. Each chapter takes a trope or stereotype connected to the representation of Irish masculinity in cinema. Chapter One, “Tiger Celts”: Irishness, Whiteness, and Masculinity, considers the way that Irishness …
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Reshaping Nationalist Discourse: Irish Novelists of the Young Free State
… and peasant literature to constructions of Irishness. Drawing on popular peasant autobiographies and Revival literature, the novel, masquerading as autobiography, produces a metadiscourse about Irish identity that shatters the myth of authenticity at the heart of nationalism.
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Foreign bodies in the river of sound : seeking identity and Irish traditional music
… 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 understand both music and identity as socially constitutive processes. Writing from the viewpoint …
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Waking the dead: funerary performance, classical appropriation, and gendered embodiment on the early Abbey stage
… large in the earliest accounts of Ireland and Irishness that come down to us. In colonial Ireland, unregulated wakes and funerary traditions endured in spite of legal and ecclesiastical attempts to police death’s meaning according to the interests of the dominant power structure. By the time …
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The contemporary racialization of the Irish in Britain: an investigation into media representations and the everyday experience of being Irish in Britain
… about the meanings and messages associated with 'Irishness' (cf. Cohen, 1988) in British cultural discourses. An extensive survey of the press and a pilot survey of television programmes were undertaken, using a "deconstruction, interpretation, reconstruction" approach (Ericson et al., 1991: 55). …
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Race: Racial Discourses, Nationalism and Identity in Nineteenth Century Ireland
… was a contested yet important way of defining “Irishness.” It further argues that racial identity was not merely an import from other European ideas but was actively interpreted to meet local conditions and agendas. This active interpretation reshaped 19th century ideas of class, ethnicity and …
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The despotism of fact: Celticism and the transnational critique of capitalism in England and Ireland, 1865-1954
… definition, and the diverse literary visions of Irishness produced by British and Irish authors. Though Irish Studies critics routinely emphasize the role of Celticism within fin-de-siecle Irish nationalism, and though they often note its anti-capitalist charge, a sustained, genealogical account …
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A cultural history of The Great Book of Ireland – Leabhar Mór na hÉireann
… reject traditional homogenous representations of Irishness and Irish nationhood by anthologising the multiplicity of Irish identities at the end of the twentieth century. In its conclusion, the thesis argues for the need for a wider knowledge of the project and its components and signals for the …
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Letteratura e identità irlandese nell'opera di Bram Stoker
… the Lyceum Theatre with Sir Henry Irving): his Irishness is evident both in his self-declared interest in Irish themes (he described himself as a “philosophical Home-Ruler”) and in some of his fiction. This research concentrates on finding Irish elements and themes in his novels, short stories, …
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The traveller
… of the society. In fact, the very definition of 'Irishness' is shifting and morphing away from the majority Catholic Celtic nation, to an exciting blend of otherness. We must become travellers by leaving our preconceived notions of 'the other' behind, and travelling out of our own personal …
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