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While ChatGPT has recently become very popular, AI has a long history and philosophy. This paper intends to explore the promises and pitfalls of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) AI and potentially future technologies by adopting a speculative methodology. Speculative future narratives with a specific focus on educational contexts are provided in an attempt to identify emerging themes and discuss their implications for education in the 21st century. Affordances of (using) AI in Education (AIEd) and possible adverse effects are identified and discussed which emerge from the narratives. It is argued that now is the best of times to define human vs AI contribution to education because AI can accomplish more and more educational activities that used to be the prerogative of human educators. Therefore, it is imperative to rethink the respective roles of technology and human educators in education with a future-oriented mindset.

This paper considers production policies and location strategies implemented by the film commission Northern Ireland Screen (NIS). Through interviews with NIS’s head of production and one location manager, this investigation reveals the challenges presented by the framing of cultural heritage within the national screen industries, in particular during the Game of Thrones era. Case studies are Line of Duty (2012-), The Fall (2013-2016) and A Patch of Fog (2015). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the article "Estranging the Novel: Poland, Ireland and Theories of World Literature" by Katarzyna Bartoszyńska, the author explores the literary works of Poland and Ireland, which are often considered peripheral to the English-speaking center. Bartoszyńska examines pairs of works from these countries that challenge traditional notions of literature, such as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Ignacy Krasicki's The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom, which satirize the Enlightenment. The author argues for a decentralized theory of the novel that values diverse perspectives and the creation of complex worlds. While the article raises questions about the influence of fiction on reality and the nature of postmodernism, Bartoszyńska's strength lies in her close reading and her exploration of the relationship between fiction and reality. [Extracted from the article]

Katarzyna Bartoszy'nska, Estranging the Novel: Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Bartoszy'nska rallies in her conclusion for a "global formalism" that tends to "craftsmanship" across fictions of shape and influence, to find out, in almost Seussical fashion, what "the novel as a form ... can do" (126). Estranging the Novel: Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature by Katarzyna Bartoszy'nska (review). [Extracted from the article]

Tom O'Flaherty's unpublished novel Red Crom's Island is a distinctly political potboiler that envisions the Gaeltacht as a potential centre for leftist revolutionary activity. By comparison, O'Flaherty's two Anglophone short stories collections, Aranmen All and Cliffmen of the West, seem to eschew socialist politics in favour of ethnographic depictions of the Aran Islands. When read in conjunction, however, the novel appears to be a source for the short fiction, which prompts a reevaluation of the politics at work in both collections. In this article, I argue that reading the unpublished and published work in tandem with archival correspondences involving officials from the Irish Free State reveals the ways in which O'Flaherty sought to articulate the necessity of socialist values for the survival of the Aran Islands at a time in the 1930s when anti-Communist sentiment and distaste for socialism was on the rise in Ireland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Joseph O'Connor's Star of the Sea (2002) offers a nuanced depiction of the lifelong patterns of resistance of the Irish governess and Famine survivor, Mary Duane. Following Gayatri Spivak's notions of the Other and of "wordling" -- the practice of the more powerful who seize their impressions of the experiences of those perceived as weaker to elevate themselves to "Sovereign Selves" -- this essay charts the intersections of power and the production of meaning and knowledge and argues that Star of the Sea is a feminist excavation of strategies of diasporic strength. O'Connor's heroine is not a victimized female Other who can merely report; she is not permanently elusive and powerless, rather she is gradually revealed as a resourceful and inspirational character who relies on the idea of a noble Irish homeland which she adapts to navigate moral dilemmas, trauma and chaotic borders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]