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Book Deconstructing Irishness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eva-Maria Griese
  • Publisher : GRIN Verlag
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 3638895696
  • Pages : 41 pages

Download or read book Deconstructing Irishness written by Eva-Maria Griese and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), course: Landeskunde Irland: Shared Histories - Modern Ireland and Germany, 20 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: After tracing out the limits and meanings of the term identity in general, this paper will deal with the components and characteristics of Irish identity and how it was constructed and developed.

Book Deconstructing Irishness

Download or read book Deconstructing Irishness written by Eva-Maria Griese and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-01-18 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), course: Landeskunde Irland: Shared Histories - Modern Ireland and Germany, language: English, abstract: After tracing out the limits and meanings of the term identity in general, this paper will deal with the components and characteristics of Irish identity and how it was constructed and developed.

Book James Joyce  Developing Irish Identity

Download or read book James Joyce Developing Irish Identity written by Thomas Halloran and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-23 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "James Joyce: Developing Irish Identity" follows the increasing focus on Irish identity in Joyce's major works of prose. This book traces the development of the idea of Ireland, the concept of Irishness, the formation of a national identity and the need to deconstruct a nationalistic self-conception of nation in Joyce's work. Through close reading of "Dubliners", "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", "Stephen Hero" and "Ulysses", Joyce articulates the problems that colonialism poses to a nation-state that cannot create its identity autonomously. Furthermore, this reading uncovers Joyce's conception of national identity as increasingly sophisticated and complicated after Irish independence was won. From here, Halloran argues that Joyce presents his readers with ideas and suggestions for the future of Ireland. As Irish studies become increasingly imbricated with postcolonial discourse, the need for re-examination of classic texts becomes necessary."James Joyce: Developing Irish Identity" provides a new approach for understanding the dramatic development of Joyce's oeuvre by providing a textual analysis guided by postcolonial theory.

Book Constructing and Deconstructing National Identity

Download or read book Constructing and Deconstructing National Identity written by Birgit Ryschka and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Limerick, Ireland, 2007.

Book Deconstructing Ireland

Download or read book Deconstructing Ireland written by Colin Graham and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a Derridean deconstruction approach, this book examines the course by which the history of modernity and colonialism has constructed an idea of Ireland, produced more often as a citation than an actuality.

Book Affecting Irishness

Download or read book Affecting Irishness written by Padraig Kirwan and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writers in this text seek to reconcile the established critical perspectives of Irish studies with a forward-looking critical momentum that incorporates the realities of globalisation and economic migration.

Book Words of Crisis  Crisis of Words

Download or read book Words of Crisis Crisis of Words written by María Losada Friend and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a collection of papers dealing with how adversities have been tackled and expressed artistically from various perspectives in Ireland. Taken together, the many approaches to critical times provided here prove how, surrounded by outbursts of pessimism, financial hecatombs, and individual and collective discouragement, the academic community can find meaning in hard, intellectual work, and in serious updated research. The chapters here are authored by scholars specialised in Irish Studies, and provide reflections and discussions on the broad topic of crisis and Ireland, its description and representation, and the different ways in which difficulties have been discussed, imagined, or even solved.

Book Irishness in a Changing Society

Download or read book Irishness in a Changing Society written by Princess Grace Irish Library and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: R.V. Comerford, Political Myths In Modern Ireland; Hugh Leonard, The Unimportance of Being Irish; Louis Le Brocquy, A Painter's Notes On His Irishness; Patrick Rafroidi, Defining The Irish Literary Tradition In English; Maurice Harmon, Definitions of Irishness In Modern Irish Literature; Terence Brown, Awakening From the Nightmare; Irish History in Some Recent Literature; Richard Kearney, The Transitional Crisis of Modern Irish Culture; Mary E. Daly, The Impact of Economic Development on National Identity; Joseph Lee, State and Nation in Independent Ireland; David Harkness, Nation, State and National Identity in Ireland: Some Preliminary Thoughts; John A. Murphy, Religion and Irish Identity; Dermot Keogh, Catholicism and the Formation of the Modern Irish Society; Maurice Goldring, National Identity and Class Conscience; Mark Mortimer, The Anglo-Irish Influence In The Shaping of Irish Identity; Garret Fitzgerald, Towards A New Concept of Irishness; John Hume, A New IrelandóThe Healing Process; Andy O'Mahony (Moderator). A Round Table On A Changing Concept; Appendix 1. The Conference Programme and List of Participants; Appendix 2. Irishness in Print: A Selective Bibliography; Notes; Notes on Contributors; Index^R.

Book The Irish in Us

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  • Author : Diane Negra
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2006-02-22
  • ISBN : 0822387840
  • Pages : 389 pages

Download or read book The Irish in Us written by Diane Negra and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-22 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade or so, Irishness has emerged as an idealized ethnicity, one with which large numbers of people around the world, and particularly in the United States, choose to identify. Seeking to explain the widespread appeal of all things Irish, the contributors to this collection show that for Americans, Irishness is rapidly becoming the white ethnicity of choice, a means of claiming an ethnic identity while maintaining the benefits of whiteness. At the same time, the essayists challenge essentialized representations of Irishness, bringing attention to the complexities of Irish history and culture that are glossed over in Irish-themed weddings and shamrock tattoos. Examining how Irishness is performed and commodified in the contemporary transnational environment, the contributors explore topics including Van Morrison’s music, Frank McCourt’s writing, the explosion of Irish-themed merchandising, the practices of heritage seekers, the movie The Crying Game, and the significance of red hair. Whether considering the implications of Garth Brooks’s claim of Irishness and his enormous popularity in Ireland, representations of Irish masculinity in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, or Americans’ recourse to a consoling Irishness amid the racial and nationalist tensions triggered by the events of September 11, the contributors delve into complex questions of ethnicity, consumerism, and globalization. Ultimately, they call for an increased awareness of the exclusionary effects of claims of Irishness and for the cultivation of flexible, inclusive ways of affiliating with Ireland and the Irish. Contributors. Natasha Casey, Maeve Connolly, Catherine M. Eagan, Sean Griffin, Michael Malouf, Mary McGlynn, Gerardine Meaney, Diane Negra, Lauren Onkey, Maria Pramaggiore, Stephanie Rains, Amanda Third

Book After Optimism

Download or read book After Optimism written by Ronit Lenṭin and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ireland  Colonialism  and the Unfinished Revolution

Download or read book Ireland Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution written by Robbie McVeigh and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking examination of the colonial legacy and future of Ireland, showing how Ireland’s story is linked to and informs anti-imperialism around the world. Colonialism is at the heart of making sense of Irish history and contemporary politics across the island of Ireland. And as Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston argue, Ireland’s experience is central to understanding the history of colonization and anti-colonial politics throughout the world. Part history, part analysis, Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution charts the centuries of Irish colonial history, from England’s proto-imperial engagement with Ireland in 1155 to the Union in 1801, and the subsequent struggles for Irish independence and the legacies of partition from 1921. A century later, the plate tectonics of Irishness are shifting once again. The Union is in crisis and alternatives to partition are being seriously considered outside the Republican tradition for the first time in generations. These significant structural changes suggest that the coming times might finally see the completion of the decolonization project – the finishing of the revolution. In the words of the revolutionary Pádraig Pearse: Anois ar theacht an tSamhraidh – now the summer is coming.

Book Deconstructing Ireland

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  • Author : Colin Graham
  • Publisher : Tendencies: Identities, Texts
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780748609765
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Deconstructing Ireland written by Colin Graham and published by Tendencies: Identities, Texts. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a Derridean deconstruction approach, this book examines the course by which the history of modernity and colonialism has constructed an idea of Ireland, produced more often as a citation than an actuality.

Book Irish Migration  Networks and Ethnic Identities since 1750

Download or read book Irish Migration Networks and Ethnic Identities since 1750 written by Dr Enda Delaney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-08-29 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays demonstrates in vivid detail how a range of formal and informal networks shaped the Irish experience of emigration, settlement and the construction of ethnic identity in a variety of geographical contexts since 1750. It examines topics as diverse as the associational culture of the Orange Order in the nineteenth century to

Book Outside the Glow

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  • Author : Heather K. Crawford
  • Publisher : Univ College Dublin Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9781906359447
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Outside the Glow written by Heather K. Crawford and published by Univ College Dublin Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Does it still matter which foot you dig with in today's Republic of Ireland? Outside the Glow examines the relationship between Protestants and Catholics in the context of the notion that southern Protestants are somehow not really Irish. From extensiveinterviews with representatives of both confessions, Heather K. Crawford demonstrates that there are still underlying tensions between the confession based on the emotional legacy generated by events long buried in the past. By looking at various aspectsof everyday life in today's Republic - education, marriage, segregation, Irish language, social life - she shows how residues of religious, ethnic and cultural tension suggest that true Irishness is Catholic, and that consequently Protestants -and other minorities - cannot have an authentic Irish identity."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Seamus Heaney   s Regions

Download or read book Seamus Heaney s Regions written by Richard Rankin Russell and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional voices from England, Ireland, and Scotland inspired Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel prize-winner, to become a poet, and his home region of Northern Ireland provided the subject matter for much of his poetry. In his work, Heaney explored, recorded, and preserved both the disappearing agrarian life of his origins and the dramatic rise of sectarianism and the subsequent outbreak of the Northern Irish “Troubles” beginning in the late 1960s. At the same time, Heaney consistently imagined a new region of Northern Ireland where the conflicts that have long beset it and, by extension, the relationship between Ireland and the United Kingdom might be synthesized and resolved. Finally, there is a third region Heaney committed himself to explore and map—the spirit region, that world beyond our ken. In Seamus Heaney’s Regions, Richard Rankin Russell argues that Heaney’s regions—the first, geographic, historical, political, cultural, linguistic; the second, a future where peace, even reconciliation, might one day flourish; the third, the life beyond this one—offer the best entrance into and a unified understanding of Heaney’s body of work in poetry, prose, translations, and drama. As Russell shows, Heaney believed in the power of ideas—and the texts representing them—to begin resolving historical divisions. For Russell, Heaney’s regionalist poetry contains a “Hegelian synthesis” view of history that imagines potential resolutions to the conflicts that have plagued Ireland and Northern Ireland for centuries. Drawing on extensive archival and primary material by the poet, Seamus Heaney’s Regions examines Heaney’s work from before his first published poetry volume, Death of a Naturalist in 1966, to his most recent volume, the elegiac Human Chain in 2010, to provide the most comprehensive treatment of the poet’s work to date.

Book Negotiating National Identities

Download or read book Negotiating National Identities written by Dr Christian Karner and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiating National Identities presents an empirically detailed and theoretically wide-ranging analysis of the complex political and cultural struggles taking place in contemporary Europe. Taking contemporary Austria and her controversial identity politics as its central case study in a discussion of developments across a variety of national and pan-European contexts, this book demonstrates that neo-nationalism has been one among several competing reactions to the processes and challenges of globalization, whilst inclusive notions of identity and belonging are shown to have emerged from the realms of civil society and cultural production. Shifting the study of national identities from the party-political to the social, cultural and economic realms, this book raises important questions of human rights, social exclusion and ideological struggle in a globalizing era, drawing attention to the contested nature of European politics and civil societies, in which existing configurations of power and exclusion are both reproduced and challenged. As such, it will be of interest to anyone working in the fields of race and ethnicity, national identity and media and cultural studies.

Book The Theatre of Marina Carr

Download or read book The Theatre of Marina Carr written by Cathy Leeney and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2003 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first collection of articles to be published on the theatre of Marina Carr, a major contemporary Irish playwright whose work is highly acclaimed in Ireland and internationally for its poetic energy and its remarkable theatrical imagination." "These essays examine Carr's highly original voice, and place her plays in the context of current theatre in Ireland and abroad. They raise lively debate on contemporary representation of 'Irishness' on the stage, on the current state of Irish theatre, on the impact of female authorship on the canon of Irish theatre, and on Carr's portrayal of characters who are fundamentally at odds with the world around them."--BOOK JACKET.