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This article aims at examining how systemic violence is connected with social stigma and structural vulnerability in the social novel The Spinning Heart, which was published by the Irish writer Donal Ryan in 2012. This much lauded work describes the collapse of the Celtic Tiger and its devastating effects in a small rural town in Ireland from multiple viewpoints. Although there are twenty-one first-person narrators, one per chapter, Bobby Mahon stands out among them. In fact, the story of this construction foreman connects with the trajectories presented by the other characters. Through all of them, Ryan denounces the practices and procedures that powerful and privileged institutions, groups and individuals resort to in contemporary Ireland in order to assert control or authority over other less favoured members of society, thus fostering a climate of violence. Attention is drawn in this article to the nature of the patterns of aggression and hostility developed by the main characters in the novel but also to the adverse impact these unjust, oppressive and stigmatising patterns have on vulnerable subjects by burdening them physically, psychologically, culturally and financially. Michael Staudigl’s theories on systemic violence in Phenomenologies of Violence (2014), Imogen Tyler’s notions on social stigma in Stigma. The Machinery of Inequality (2020), Judith Butler’s ideas on structural vulnerability in Vulnerability in Resistance (2016) and Pierre Bourdieu’s views on patriarchy in Masculine Domination (2001) inform this work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Seamus Mac Mathuna's book, "Ireland and the Immrama: An Enquiry into Irish Influence on Old Norse-Icelandic Voyage Literature," fills a gap in the study of immrama, or sea-voyages, in early Irish literature. The book consists of an introduction, six chapters, a conclusion, and a bibliography, providing a comprehensive analysis of the subject. Mac Mathuna explores the connections between Irish and Icelandic literature, examining the influence of Irish stories on Icelandic tales such as Þorsteins þáttr bæjarmagns and Snorri Sturluson's Gylfaginning. He also considers the influence of Classical and Christian literature on the narrative motifs and patterns found in Icelandic fornaldarsögur. [Extracted from the article]

Red Riding Hood is a story that has been retold and reimagined more frequently than most. Where the oral tradition often celebrated Red's sexuality and cunning, literary versions transform the tale into one in which a young girl is blamed for her own rape – or, in many feminist versions, where she fights back. Drawing on discussions with writers and feminist activists in Uganda, and on work by Ugandan and Irish writers and scholars, I explore how this troubling and ambiguous story can be used to facilitate communication across difference and culturally situated solidarities. I present a retelling of Red Riding Hood from an Irish perspective, using this as a springboard to explore parallels and disjunctures between Irish and Ugandan storytelling traditions and perspectives on women's rights and sexuality. I explore the potential of using this well-known European story to surface and contest dominant framings of women's rights, and as a contact point to enable dialogue between more peripheral European (Irish) and Ugandan (Kiganda and Soga) cultural traditions, facilitating mutual recognition, while remaining aware of and explicitly surfacing differences between these traditions. Telling and retelling ambiguous stories like Red Riding Hood can create space to consider where we come from and what we desire, and how those desires might be engaged through or might influence relationships of solidarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines the diverse manifestations of a lifelong interest in Ireland in the work of the Scottish Gaelic poet, scholar, and activist Ruaraidh MacThòmais (Derick Thomson, 1921-2012). It touches upon Thomson’s academic engagement with Irish-related topics and follows his comments on the situation of the Irish language and revitalisation efforts in his “manifesto” essay “The Role of the Writer in a Minority Culture” (1966) and other articles, where it serves as a source of inspiration and a point of contrast. Detailed attention is paid to the generous space which was devoted to Irish affairs and literature in the Gaelic quarterly magazine Gairm which Thomson cofounded and steered for fifty years (1952-2002), including his reviews of Irish-related publications. Drawing on references in Gairm and in Thomson’s poetry collections, the essay also brings together evidence of his personal contacts with Irish writers and intellectuals, including Máirtín Ó Direáin, and of his sustained engagement with W.B. Yeats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the ways in which Irish women writers have employed the Irish domestic interior as a representation of the female body in national politics from the late nineteenth century through the present. Using The Burning of Bridget Cleary, Angela Bourke's classic case study of the murder of a nineteenth-century woman, to introduce the biopolitics underlying the modern Irish female body as a metaphor for the Irish nation, this article shows how that metaphor continues to resonate in twentiethcentury texts written both during Irish independence and the massive economic changes of the Celtic Tiger years. Comparing work by Elizabeth Bowen and Pamela Hinkson to the contemporary detective fiction of Tana French, I argue that both the modernist era and the period after the fall of the Celtic Tiger, particularly after the great recession of 2008, were transformative times in Ireland where discussions of Irish feminine subjectivity offered hybridized understandings of gender and power during moments of great change for the nation. The textual reverberations of the Bridget Cleary story show us how a woman's body can become a metonymical symbol for both progress and oppression in modern Ireland, exposing the tense relationship between modernity and tradition in Irish culture that is the backbone of Irish identity throughout much of the twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper examines the meanings of iustitia manifested in De duodecim abusiuis saeculi, a text from seventh-century Ireland that presents ethical teaching through reflecting on twelve abuses in behaviour, beginning with the sapiens who fails to live out his teaching, and climaxing with reflection on a people without law. It argues the debt of this treatise to patristic tradition, with particular attention to ascetic traditions manifested in different ways by Jerome, Cassian, and Pelagius. Whereas iustitia was often understood by early Christian writers in terms of personal righteousness, this Irish author considered its implications within many sectors of society and for its well-being as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay focuses on Irish writer Kevin Barry's first collection of short stories, There Are Little Kingdoms (2007). The Ireland depicted in this work is the Ireland of the new millennium - a territory facing the transformations of Celtic Tiger prosperity. The analysis of these short stories, which provide several snapshots of contemporary Ireland, will explore how the Republic depicted in Barry's work is a territory in some ways bound to its rural past, often characterised by its short-sightedness despite pretensions of development. Changes are occurring, but at the same time stasis permeates the scenarios of the plots. The irony is salient, considering that the Celtic Tiger era is a time associated with prosperity and joy, yet the lives and stories of the characters of There Are Little Kingdoms (2007), as this essay will reveal, are downbeat. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the success of Irish female authors and the increase of Irish Young Adult literature publications have contributed to a wider recognition of narratives of girlhood. Such is the case of Claire Hennessy's YA fiction novel Like Other Girls, which focuses on the experiences of sixteen-year-old Lauren Carroll as she navigates being a queer young female in contemporary Ireland and deals with having an abortion in the pre-Repeal Republic. This article analyses Like Other Girls focusing on three key aspects depicted in the novel: female body and sexuality, the concept of an LGBTQ+ group as a support network for queer youth, and the experience of abortion in pre-Repeal Ireland. Such analysis is carried out with the objective of giving recognition of Irish girlhood, as well as acknowledging the importance of narratives where the female body, diverse sexualities and those concerns involved in growing up female in contemporary Ireland are depicted so that young girls can find a space to identify themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores how nations such as Ireland interact with each other – and seek to understand themselves – by appropriating theatre-makers and other artists, using them to perform versions of that nation to the outside world. This topic is considered through an exploration of the Irish state's appropriation of Samuel Beckett as an icon that represents positive images of Irishness both within and beyond Ireland. This process is explored from shortly after Beckett's death in 1989 to the launch in 2012 of an Irish navy vessel named the LÉ Samuel Beckett. The treatment of Beckett during that period is considered in the context of a broader discussion of nation-branding in Ireland. This is presented in an outline history of the Irish state's performance of itself through its artists, which are discussed in relation to the appearance of Irish writers on banknotes during the twentieth century, among other brief examples related to the work of W. B. Yeats and James Joyce. The article concludes by considering some of the methodological challenges that arise in an investigation of national performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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• There is a growing understanding that migration should be analysed as a dynamic process, rather than a single event. • Lifestyle and quality of life have been gaining increasing interest as factors behind individuals' migratory decisions. • This paper examines how quality of life influenced migration of young Polish nationals living in Ireland. Over the last few decades lifestyle migration has been receiving increased interest amongst scholars. Most of the studies conducted in Europe tend to focus on the individuals from the 'Old' European Union (EU) countries moving abroad in search of a better quality of life and improved 'social atmosphere'. The mobility of the 'New' Member State (NMS) nationals, on the other hand, is still perceived as predominantly economic and labour migration oriented. This article however, will argue that this is not necessarily the case for young NMS migrants who left their countries following the 2004 EU Enlargement. By using the example of Polish nationals living in Ireland the author will examine how these migrants, while initially motivated by economic factors, decided to stay in the host country for non-monetary reasons. This issue became significant following the 2008 recession, where people made their decisions to not return home despite the worsening economic situation in Ireland. This article argues – based on interview data - that these decisions were influenced by lifestyle rather than economic factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this interview with Celia de Fréine, the Irish writer discusses her prolific and varied literary production in a wide range of genres, with a special focus on current ecological concerns and their impact on creative writing. This ecological interest is finding its way in a literary system, the Irish one, in which debates around national borders and women’s place in the nation are far from resolved. Besides biological diversity, the writer discusses cultural and linguistic diversity, especially in relation with the present-day situation of the Irish language, the role of translation and its effect on the reception of the writer’s work, the permitted themes past and present, the subtle ties between language, setting and theme, and other subjects pertinent to language choice. Among other significant ecological concerns, Celia de Fréine appraises the following: the growingly blurring boundary between rural and urban spaces due to urban sprawl, the ailments of the social and human body, the interconnections between human and non-human bodies, the celebration of well preserved and inspiring natural environments, and the associations of landscapes with particular literary traditions from Ireland and beyond. The interview ends with a reflection upon the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on creative writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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By 1967 the Irish government had instituted free secondary education for all. The authors might have mentioned in this regard that Patrick Pearse, the leader of the 1916 Rising, was as an educationalist deeply committed to "child-centred" education, and hence his denunciation of the British system of education in Ireland as "the murder machine". They do not, however, offer much evidence for the claim that Ireland was a theocratic state. [Extracted from the article]

Part elegy to a mythical idea of Ireland and part critical condemnation of a political idealism that is no longer viable in a modern Ireland, Edna O'Brien's Country Girls Trilogy can be read as an anti-aisling simultaneously marking an end and a new beginning in Irish literature. Operating from the premise that O'Brien's naming of her protagonist Caithleen is more than coincidental, this paper argues that she is a contemporary variation of Cathleen Ní Houlihan, the female personification of Ireland and symbol of patriotic sacrifice. Alluding to the aisling tradition and sovereignty myths, Caithleen's story is O'Brien's way of 'killing' the cult of Cathleen and demythologising the restrictive and patriarchal nationalist narratives. The story of Caithleen Brady reverses and subverts the fantasy of Cathleen Ní Houlihan by bringing her to life in 1950s Ireland and offering her tragic story as a literary sacrifice and exorcism to clear the way for Irish women writers to initiate new traditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article comments on the literary works of several Irish authors and poets. Topics discussed include Siobhán Campbell's five books of poetry "Heat Signature," Catherine Maignant's surveys on the interplay of the Catholic church in Ireland with the new world of electronic media; and Jesse Bordwin’s examination of Éilis Ní Dhuibne’s 1990 novel "The Bray House."

Oscar Wilde is perhaps the most well-known historical homosexual in the public imagination. However, for a new generation of queers less connected to “gay” labels, Wilde appears other and forgettable. To reanimate Wilde's memory for twenty-first-century queers and ensure his legacy going forward, I read the 1997 Oscar Wilde monument in Dublin, Ireland. Through discursive, visual, and material analyses, I argue the monument first complicates Wilde's sexuality, casting doubt on his gay label. Second, the monument reframes Wilde as the practitioner of a proto-queer sensibility. In doing so, the monument marks historical anachronisms and renders Wilde a more resonant figure for contemporary queer audiences. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on the influence of Irish language and myths to Irish writers from William Butler Yeats to Seamus Heaney. Topics discussed include the lifestyle of ancient Greece, the concept of field by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, and the characteristics of Irish language. Also mentions are the importance of musical and poetic form on mnemonic value of Irish, the Christianity in Ireland, and the importance and role of traditional music in the everyday life of Irish.

This paper discusses the reverberations which news of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936 had in the Irish Free State. As a result of the Irish Catholic Church and the conservative press hailing General Franco as the saviour of Catholic Spain from a godless Communist minority, Irish public opinion was overwhelmingly pro-Franco. Against this background, the paper gives a brief overview of the most interesting literary treatments of the Spanish Civil War in different genres by both pro-Nationalist and pro-Republican Irish writers. The rest of the paper focuses on Peadar O'Donnell, Irish novelist and one of the founding figures of the Republican Congress, a radical left-wing movement of the 1930s. His book Salud! An Irishman in Spain (1937) represents an eyewitness account of the mobilization of the Republican defence forces and the workers’ revolution in Catalonia during the first few months of the war. O'Donnell tried to present a seemingly even-handed picture of the Spanish revolutionary anarchists, whose agricultural reforms he clearly admired, but whose violent attacks on the Catholic Church he condemned. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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The article discusses relations between learned Irish families and Irish mendicant orders, particularly Franciscans, in the late medieval era. It examines Irish religious writing, commenting on poems, writings on saints' lives, and sagas. Writings on Saint Francis, Saint Dominic, and Saint Patrick are assessed. The author reflects on several learned families, including the Mac Aodhagáin family and the Ó Siaghail family. She also considers Observant Franciscan Pilib Bocht Ó hUiginn and poet Flaithrí Ó Maoil Chonaire.

The article discusses contemporary writers of Ireland after the peace agreement of 1998, focusing specifically on the role of land and the soil of Ireland in the works of Irish writers. Topics include the anthropological study of literature, Irish writing tropes in the twentieth century, and the importance of Irish soil and memory belonging to specific locations in Irish writing in the period from 1990s to the 2000s.

The career of poet and philosopher Aodh Mac Domhnaill is considered. Works considered include poems such as "Ceol na mBarach" ("The Song of Beggars") and "Fáilte Pheadair Uí Ghealacáin" ("Peter Galligan's Welcome"), as well as the book "Fealsúnacht Aodha Mhic Dhomhnaill" ("Aodh Mac Domhnaill's Philosophy"). Other topics explored include Irish language policy, the Irish revivalist group known as the Ulster Gaelic Society, literary patrons and patronage in 19th-century Ireland, the Irish potato famine in literature, and antiquarian and industrialist Robert MacAdam.

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This article examines the effect of C.S. Lewis's Irish background on his work. It attempts to contradict the assumption that this Belfast-born writer should be included in the English and not the Irish canon. It emphasises that Lewis saw himself as Irish, was seen by others as Irish, and that his Irish background, contrary to what some have written, was important to him throughout his lifetime. It goes on to demonstrate the ways in which his work was influenced by his youth in Ireland and by the Irish mythology that he loved. Furthermore, this article maintains that, as a child of pre-partition Ireland with roots throughout the island, Lewis was influenced by the country as a whole, not just his native Ulster. Finally, it attempts to understand why Lewis, a proud Irishman, did not do more to promote himself as an Irish writer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers the author's insights on the works of Irish writers including Samuel Beckett, Laurence Sterne, and Fintan Vallely. He says that Beckett's book "The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929-1940" emphasizes the private world as an important defence from the public world. He states that in the correspondence, Beckett has stated that the private, which acts as a barrier against the world, also provides an entry point to the public world. Moreover, the letters are full with digestion problems that resulted to the limitations of the body, which show the physical condition of Beckett that constitutes the crucible and material of his imaginative idea. He adds that the antipathy of Beckett toward Ireland in the letters might be concluded by some readers as the final word on that subject.

The article focuses on the wartime experiences of Irish author Frank O'Connor at the Irish national radio station Radio Éireann during World War II. O'Connor was hired to participate in the radio program "Their Funniest Stories" which featured humorous accounts written by Irish authors, and O'Connor chose to read his submissions on air. Other subjects considered include broadcasting as a vehicle for cultural transmission, Ireland's wartime neutrality, Great Britain's efforts to engage Irish participation in its war efforts, Ireland's censorship policies regarding print and radio journalism in the post-Independence period, and Irish Catholic national culture.

In this article the author discusses the use of ancestral ghosts in the play "The Steward of Christendom," by Irish author and playwright Sebastian Barry. Although the play is based on Barry's family, it is not historically accurate. He uses the ancestral ghosts to uncover emotional truth. The article summarizes the plot of "The Steward of Christendom" and provides background information about the characters. The play also explores the politics of the time, especially those associated with Irish soldiers who fought in World War I.

In this article the author reflects on the Irish writings in 2008 in Ireland. The author states that the plays of Edna Walsh such as "The Walworth Farce" and "The New Electric Ballroom" does not offer much of prescient as immediate and descriptive of the world surrounding the theatre. Meanwhile, the novel "Netherland" of Joseph O'Neill features fictional and documentary elements of the 9/11 attack.

The article discusses the personal, political, and cultural commitments of Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw during the Anglo-Irish War, or Irish War of Independence, of 1918-1921. A year-by-year account of Shaw's activities during this period is presented, including: excerpts from his letters to friends; details of his travels around the British Isles with his wife Charlotte; his views on the politics around the Irish question and the war with Great Britain; and his support for socialism and Anglo-Irish federalism.

Abstract: In 1846 and again in 1849 the Scottish born historian and social critic, Thomas Carlyle, travelled Ireland accompanied by the Irish nationalist Charles Gavan Duffy. Significantly, these dates profile the beginning and the deadly culmination of the Great Irish Famine. It is somewhat surprising, therefore, that Carlyle''s published memoirs of his travels and his various pamphlets on Ireland have merited little scholarly attention. As well as addressing this oversight this paper attempts to place Carlyle''s travel writing within the ideological contours of the Great Famine and, to this end, I outline a specific example of what I call the ‘geopolitics of travel’. Principally this paper offers an empirical and theoretical analysis of how powerful political rationalities are produced at the ‘contact zone’ of two cultures. I consider Carlyle''s shift from being a critic of laissez-faire to being a defender of property and argue that this parallels his propensity to qualify what amounts to human value through environmental and racial readings of the Famine. Finally, I briefly suggest that such calculations take us into the domain of ‘governmentality’ and capitalist political economy, perhaps the two most powerful forces directing the course of the Irish Famine. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The article presents analysis of an essay on Victorian literature. In this context, Victorian Britain or Victorian England under the rule of Queen Victoria has been highlighted. The notion of the United Kingdom of Great Britain has also been discussed. Unlike the concept of the United States, the United Kingdom in cultural history specially in English literature frequently assumed as four distinct nation. The article further discusses the Victorian Ireland and throws light on Irish literature and Irish writers which were considered an inseparable part of English literature.

This essay examines the phenomenon of translation into Irish from 1950 until the present day, and also touches on the less common practice of translation from Irish. The state publishing venture which produced hundreds of translated works in the 1920s and 1930s had changed its policy by 1950. Since then, translation has been the work of interested individuals and has been published by independent houses. In this period, several of the world's classics have been rendered into Irish. The most noteworthy have been translations of the Odyssey, The Divine Comedy and of Pascal's Pensées. There has also been a wealth of international poetry turned into Irish from German, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and many other languages. Translation from Irish has also been dominated by poetry, particularly by contemporary poets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on Irish author Jennifer Johnston. Discussion of how Johnson portrays strong women and challenges conventional ideas about women's writing; Commitment of Johnston to a united Ireland in the context of her Protestant Anglo-Irish background; Her preoccupation with issues of identity, loyalty and treachery in fictions set in the First World War and its aftermath.

This essay examines the nineteenth-century British obsession with travel in Ireland, and the representation of the stranger in three novels soon after the Union: Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl, Edgeworth's The Absentee, and Banim's The Anglo-Irish of the Nineteenth Century. These Irish writers use the stranger to expose misconception and urge reconciliation, but the stranger undergoes an evolution in their works, from English, to Anglo-Irish, to Irish -- from colonizer coming to terms with the actions of his ancestors, to Anglo-Irish landlord taking responsibility for his land and tenants, to Irishman embracing his national identity and forging his own destiny. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most intriguing aspects of the increased recognition of Irish ethnic difference in contemporary Great Britain is the phenomenon of authors of Irish descent using their own biographies and family histories as a touchstone to trace the transgenerational ramifications of diasporic identities. Recent years have seen the publication of a small corpus of works in which autobiographic and biographic modes, or a hybridised form of them, have been mobilised to explore the implications of Irish identity loss and continuity both within and beyond the migrant generation. Although thematically linked, these works differ ideologically and formally, ranging from unconventional memoirs to scholarly theses.

This article features Irish writer Silas Flannery and presents a contextual analysis of his works. Personal background; Style in writing; Selection of his works, including "The Cask of Amontillado"; Criticisms.

Examines the relationship between Germany and Ireland. Role of travel writing in the German-Irish relationship; Tourist trade; Literary heritage.