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Brannigan, John, Marcela Santos Brigida, Thayane Verçosa, and Gabriela Ribeiro Nunes. "Thinking in Archipelagic Terms: An Interview with John Brannigan." Palimpsesto - Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da UERJ 20, no. 35 (May 13, 2021): 3–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/palimpsesto.2021.59645.

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John Brannigan is Professor at the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin. He has research interests in the twentieth-century literatures of Ireland, England, Scotland, and Wales, with a particular focus on the relationships between literature and social and cultural identities. His first book, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism (1998), was a study of the leading historicist methodologies in late twentieth-century literary criticism. He has since published two books on the postwar history of English literature (2002, 2003), leading book-length studies of working-class authors Brendan Behan (2002) and Pat Barker (2005), and the first book to investigate twentieth-century Irish literature and culture using critical race theories, Race in Modern Irish Literature and Culture (2009). His most recent book, Archipelagic Modernism: Literature in the Irish and British Isles, 1890-1970 (2014), explores new ways of understanding the relationship between literature, place and environment in 20th-century Irish and British writing. He was editor of the international peer-reviewed journal, Irish University Review, from 2010 to 2016.

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Levay, Matthew, Francesca Bratton, Caroline Krzakowski, Andrew Keese, Sophie Corser, Catriona Livingstone, Mark West, et al. "XIV Modern Literature." Year's Work in English Studies 98, no. 1 (2019): 858–1020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maz011.

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Abstract This chapter has eight sections 1. General. 2 British Fiction Pre-1945; 3. British Fiction 1945 to the Present; 4. Pre-1950 Drama; 5. Post-1950 Drama; 6. British Poetry 1900–1950; 7. British Poetry Post-1950; 8. Irish Poetry. Section 1 is by Matthew Levay; section 2(a) is by Francesca Bratton; section 2(b) is by Caroline Krzakowski; section 2(c) is by Sophie Corser; section 2(d) is by Andrew Keese; section 2(e) is by Catriona Livingstone; section 3(a) is by Mark West; section 3(b) is by Samuel Cooper; section 4(a) is by Rebecca D’Monte; section 4(b) is by Gustavo A. Rodríguez Martín; section 5 is by Graham Saunders and William Baker; section 6(a) is by Noreen Masud; section 6(b) is by Matthew Creasy; section 7 is by Alex Alonso; section 8 is by Karl O’Hanlon.

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Young, Emma. "The British and Irish short story handbook." Irish Studies Review 21, no. 4 (November 2013): 500–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2013.846699.

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Quinault, Roland. "British Democracy and Irish Nationalism 1876–1906." Journal of Victorian Culture 15, no. 3 (December 2010): 413–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2010.519551.

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O'Connor, Henrietta, and John Goodwin. "Work and the Diaspora: Locating Irish Workers in the British Labour Market." Irish Journal of Sociology 11, no. 2 (November 2002): 27–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/079160350201100203.

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Irish migrant workers still make a significant contribution to the UK labour force, but this contribution is confined to particular occupation and industry groups. This paper begins with a brief review of the literature on Irish workers employment and an argument is developed that the work of Irish-born people in Britain is still both racialised and gendered. Then, using data from the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS), the work experiences of over one thousand Irish-born people in the UK are explored. The findings suggest that Irish-born men and women still work in the stereotyped occupations of the past. For example, most women work in public administration and health while twenty six per cent of men work in construction. The majority of Irish-born men work in manual skilled or unskilled jobs. The paper concludes that there has been no real qualitative change in the way that Irish-born workers experience employment in the UK.

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Watson, Ariel. "Cries of Fire: Psychotherapy in Contemporary British and Irish Drama." Modern Drama 51, no. 2 (June 2008): 188–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/md.51.2.188.

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Impens, Florence. "Pastoral elegy in contemporary British and Irish poetry." Irish Studies Review 22, no. 2 (April 2, 2014): 250–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2014.897496.

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De Nie, Michael. "The famine, Irish identity, and the British press." Irish Studies Review 6, no. 1 (April 1998): 27–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09670889808455590.

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Sinclair, Georgina. "Introduction." Irish Historical Studies 36, no. 142 (November 2008): 137. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021121400006994.

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Contributions to this special issue of Irish Historical Studies come under the dedicated theme of ‘Ireland and the British Empire-Commonwealth’. The papers originate from a workshop entitled ‘Ireland and empire’ that took place at the University of Leeds in March 2005. One of the key objectives behind the organisation of this workshop was to bring together specialists in British, Irish and imperial and Commonwealth history with an interest in the wide-ranging debates linked to the issue of ‘Ireland and empire’. At the workshop, the papers presented a range of topics within the context of literature and the arts; agriculture and industry; metropolitan politics and diplomacy. The overarching theme was the ‘Irish experience’ within an ‘interconnected British world’ during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Hamera, Paweł. "“The Heart of this People is in its right place”: The American Press and Private Charity in the United States during the Irish Famine." Text Matters, no. 8 (October 24, 2018): 151–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/texmat-2018-0010.

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The potato blight that struck Ireland in 1845 led to ineffable suffering that sent shockwaves throughout the Anglosphere. The Irish Famine is deemed to be the first national calamity to attract extensive help and support from all around the world. Even though the Irish did not receive adequate support from the British government, their ordeal was mitigated by private charity. Without the donations from a great number of individuals, the death toll among the famished Irishmen and Irishwomen would have been definitely higher. The greatest and most generous amount of assistance came from the United States. In spite of the fact that the U.S. Congress did not decide to earmark any money for the support of famine-stricken Ireland, the horrors taking place in this part of the British Empire pulled at American citizens’ heartstrings and they contributed munificently to the help of the Irish people. Aiding Ireland was embraced by the American press, which, unlike major British newspapers, lauded private efforts to bring succour to the Irish. Such American newspapers as the Daily National Intelligencer, the New York Herald and the Liberator encouraged their readers to contribute to the relief of Ireland and applauded efforts to help the Irish. The aim of this essay is to argue that the American press, in general, played a significant role in encouraging private charity in the United States towards the Irish at the time of An Gorta Mór and, thus, helped to save many lives.

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Shannon McRae. "Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1899–1939 (review)." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 55, no. 4 (2009): 859–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1634.

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Workman, Simon. "Maeve Kelly: Women, Ireland, and the Aesthetics of Radical Writing." Irish University Review 49, no. 2 (November 2019): 304–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/iur.2019.0408.

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This article considers the work of Irish writer and feminist Maeve Kelly arguing that she has been not only a radical and, to some extent, seminal voice within modern Irish writing, but an author whose work self-consciously reflects upon the production and mediation of Irish women's writing within British and Irish culture. While Kelly is not unique in adopting a feminist approach in her writing, aspects of her fiction are somewhat discrete within modern Irish literature in terms of how they express, delineate, and resolve the challenges – material, psycho-cultural, aesthetic – attendant upon the representation of feminist political thought and occluded Irish female experience. Particularly within an Irish context, Kelly's writing provides a significant case study of the aesthetic problematics of politically radical fiction. Her oeuvre represents a vital contribution to Irish writing of the twentieth century as well as to the history of women in post-war Ireland.

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Mason, T. "Review: Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660: Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660." Cambridge Quarterly 30, no. 4 (December 1, 2001): 337–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/30.4.337.

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Frątczak-Dąbrowska, Marta, and Joanna Jarząb-Napierała. "The Crisis of Brexit and Other Socio-Cultural Aspects of Silencing the Past through the Example of Anna Burns’ Milkman." Porównania 30, no. 3 (December 27, 2021): 179–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.3.12.

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The present article scrutinizes the phenomenon of a systemic silencing of the past visible in recent socio-political challenges caused by Brexit, especially in the case of the Irish border. Due to the comparative character of the paper, the attention is targeted at a symptomatic amnesia manifested on the British and Northern Irish sides. Postcolonial melancholia, to use Paul Gilroy’s term, facilitated by a systemic whitewashing of British imperial past, is contrasted here with Northern Irish postcolonial amnesia understood as a personal and institutionalised suppression of the difficult memory of colonisation and violence. In what follows, the paper aims to show how these two phenomena meet in the conflict of Brexit and how literature comments on the current political, social and cultural issues such as Brexit based on the example of Anna Burns’ novel Milkman (2018). The article discusses the silence which has surrounded the issue of the Irish Border in Brexit debates, as well as looks at the Northern Irish reluctance to talk about their past as an unsuccessful attempt to escape the demons of the past.

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McAteer, Michael. "Post-revisionism: Conflict (Ir)resolution and the Limits of Ambivalence in Kevin McCarthy’s Peeler." Text Matters, no. 8 (October 24, 2018): 9–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/texmat-2018-0001.

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This essay considers a historical novel of recent times in revisionist terms, Kevin McCarthy’s debut novel of 2010, Peeler. In doing so, I also address the limitations that the novel exposes within Irish revisionism. I propose that McCarthy’s novel should be regarded more properly as a post-revisionist work of literature. A piece of detective fiction that is set during the Irish War of Independence from 1919 to 1921, Peeler challenges the romantic nationalist understanding of the War as one of heroic struggle by focusing its attention on a Catholic member of the Royal Irish Constabulary. In considering the circumstances in which Sergeant Seán O’Keefe finds himself as a policeman serving a community within which support for the IRA campaign against British rule is strong, the novel sheds sympathetic light on the experience of Catholic men who were members of the Royal Irish Constabulary until the force was eventually disbanded in 1922. At the same time, it demonstrates that the ambivalence in Sergeant O’Keefe’s attitudes ultimately proves unsustainable, thereby challenging the value that Irish revisionism has laid upon the ambivalent nature of political and cultural circumstances in Ireland with regard to Irish-British relations. In the process, I draw attention to important connections that McCarthy’s Peeler carries to Elizabeth Bowen’s celebrated novel of life in Anglo-Irish society in County Cork during the period of the Irish War of Independence: The Last September of 1929.

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Drea, Eoin, and Frank Barry. "A reappraisal of Joseph Brennan and the achievements of Irish banking and currency policy 1922–1943." Financial History Review 28, no. 1 (February 22, 2021): 45–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0968565021000019.

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Joseph Brennan, as secretary of the Irish Department of Finance (1923–7) and chair of the Irish Currency Commission (1927–43), was a pivotal influence on Irish banking and currency affairs. Yet, within the existing literature, his adherence to conservative British norms is seen as providing a ‘bleak prescription’ for the Irish economy. However, such a view ignores the fact that Brennan was far from dogmatic on banking and currency issues and underplays his incrementalist, and often internationalist, approach to the development of Irish monetary institutions. Brennan's actions up to the early 1940s were based on the realities of Ireland's slowly receding economic and intellectual dependency on Britain, a ‘dependency’ often misrepresented in the existing literature as a more primitive, pre-Keynesian, conservative approach. However, rather than acting as a restraining influence on Irish economic development, the policies Brennan advocated enabled Ireland to avoid the instability associated with many smaller, emerging nation states in the 1920s and 1930s. The focus on continuity – which guaranteed currency and banking stability – represented the realities of Ireland's reliance on the sluggish British economy in the decades after independence. Brennan's achievement, in helping to sustain banking and currency stability notwithstanding economic uncertainty, a fragile political environment (and suspicious banking interests), deserves wider acknowledgement.

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Norden, Larisa L., and Valeria S. Miller. "THE IRISH RENAISSANCE IN FACES." Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta, no. 2 (June 25, 2021): 133–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.47026/1810-1909-2021-2-133-141.

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The end of the XIX – beginning of the XX centuries is the efflorescence period of national culture in Ireland. In historiography, this time was named the Irish Renaissance. Its bright representatives and organizations promoted national ideas, tried to restrain verbal aggression from the English language, to revive self-consciousness of their compatriots, developed sports, literature, theater, musical culture, and opposed the British way of life. The Irish Renaissance was not homogeneous. Some of its representatives tried to be politically neutral, tried to show their non-involvement in the existing political situation. The other held positions of active cultural nationalism. They believed that the Irish should revive their culture, cultivate their national identity, using a solid language base. They promoted the advantages of the Gaelic lifestyle as opposed to the English one. Still others proceeded from realistic attitudes, they saw narrow-mindedness of the Irish society, they were not afraid to point out its vices, and convinced in the need to include their homeland in the cultural space of the West. In addition to the multiplicity of options, the Irish Renaissance was an elitist phenomenon, since most of the society lived in poverty, did not have the opportunity to get a good education, and cared more about «daily bread». The most vivid appeals to the spiritual Revival of the nation were made in the theater and literature, the flourishing of which is associated with the names of W.B. Yeats, Lady Augusta Gregory, D. Joyce, D.M. Sing and others. To a large extent, the Irish Renaissance was a kind of reaction to modernism. It is quite possible to say that in Ireland there was a strong confrontation between the archaic and the modern. The important features of cultural Irish Renaissance were its anti-British orientation, the desire to emphasize national identity. The Hiberno-English version of English had similarities to Irish in some grammatical idioms, the inhabitants of the Emerald Isle, perhaps subconsciously, used the grammatical structures of their native language when speaking English. This linguistic tradition also influenced the Irish literature, which differed in various ways from the English literature.

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Gill, Jo, and Tim Kendall. "The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry." Modern Language Review 103, no. 3 (July 1, 2008): 838. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20467940.

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Al-BARZENJI, Luma Ibrahim. "ROOTLESSNESS IN ELIZABETH BOWEN'S THE DEATH OF THE HEART, AND CHINUA ACHEBE'S ARROW OF GOD: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN ANGLO-IRISH AND AFRICAN POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE." International Journal Of Education And Language Studies 01, no. 01 (December 1, 2021): 43–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2791-9323.1-1.4.

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Postcolonial literature views the British Empire of the nineteenth century as unique in human history and literary products for it provides writers with different subjects that deal with the idea of how to resurrect the colonized identity even after getting liberation. Postcolonial literature seems to label literature written by people living in countries formerly colonized by other colonized and other colonial powers as British. Such literature and particularly novel, emerged to focus on social, moral, and cultural influences and their interrelation with the impact of English existence upon some countries as Ireland in Europe and Nigeria in Africa. Irish novel shares its genesis with the English novel. When we write of the eighteenth century and use the phrase ' the Irish novel', we are necessarily referring to novel written by authors who, irrespective of birthplace, inhabited both England and Ireland and who thought of themselves as English or possibly both English and Irish. This fact is apparent within hands when we talk about the Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen and her novels that show the obvious effect of her Irish identity upon her works during the period of World Wars I and II with a consideration to Ireland as a British colony. The same impact with African culture, postcolonial Nigeria, when its writers saw the changes crept to their traditions. Their literary products concentrated on questioning their nation how to keep and reserve African identity from alternations. Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian writer tried to reflect his culture in a mirror to readers and challenge them with their own strength and weakness in his novel Arrow of God. His novel tackles these weaknesses of the traditional outlook and senses for change. The research paper tackles the concept of rootlessness in postcolonialism through Anglo-Irish novel The Death of the Heart (1938) of Elizabeth Bowen ,which is tackled in the first section , and postcolonial Nigerian novel Arrow of God (1964) written by Chinua Achebe in the second section. The paper ends with conclusions and works cited.

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Li, Lianghui. "Review of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature, by Richard Bradford et al., eds." Review of Irish Studies in Europe 4, no. 2 (November 30, 2021): 144–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.32803/rise.v4i2.2851.

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Aherne, Declan, and Michael Griffin. "Irish general practice and clinical psychology." Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine 8, no. 1 (March 1991): 75–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0790966700016487.

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AbstractThis paper reports on client satisfaction and other benefits of having a Clinical Psychologist attached to a General Practice. A review of the existing literature on this topic is presented, based mainly on the British experience. The results of a survey carried out on clients who attended the Clinical Psychologist are presented. These results suggest that there are significant benefits of having a Clinical Psychologist working closely with a General Practitioner. Finally both authors give their own personal comments on the work that they do.

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Nolan, Val. "‘All of Ireland had been wiped out’: Irish Nuclear Anxiety and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s The Bray House." Irish University Review 51, no. 2 (November 2021): 247–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/iur.2021.0517.

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The Bray House (1990) is Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's curious and contested first novel, the story of a near-future archaeological expedition to an Ireland devastated by a British nuclear disaster. It is a book which has offered much analytical fodder to readers and critics alike, with the question of the novel's genre continually in flux since its publication. This article argues that, in The Bray House, Ní Dhuibhne consciously inverts Old Irish narrative forms to create a work of speculative writing which yokes together the seemingly contradictory concerns of the Gaelic literary tradition and contemporary Irish anxiety about vulnerabilities to the British nuclear energy industry. It examines how the author combines unease over international energy politics with native narrative structures to create a work which sits comfortably within the genre of science fiction. It considers how The Bray House brings to light what Darko Suvin calls the ‘congeneric elements in the cognitive and marvellous bias of the voyage extraordinaire’, in this case the Old Irish Echtra form. Particular attention is paid throughout to how science fiction (specifically the techno-Robinsonade model) allows Ní Dhuibhne to vividly express Irish national concerns over the presence of the Sellafield nuclear power plant in the late 1980s.

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O'Higgins, Paul. "Bibliography of Periodical Literature on British and Irish Labour Law Published in 1984." Industrial Law Journal 14, no. 1 (1985): 233–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ilj/14.1.233.

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O'Higgins, Paul. "Bibliography of Periodical Literature on British and Irish Labour Law Published in 1986." Industrial Law Journal 16, no. 1 (1987): 244–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ilj/16.1.244.

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Zabel, Blaž. "Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett, World Literature, and the Colonial Comparisons." Journal of World Literature 4, no. 3 (August 8, 2019): 330–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00403003.

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Abstract This article discusses the work of the early Irish comparatists Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett, who in 1886 published the first monograph in English in comparative literature. By bringing into discussion Posnett’s lesser-known journalistic publications on politics, the essay argues that his comparative project was importantly determined by the contemporary challenges of British imperial politics and by his own position in the British Empire. The article investigates several aspects of Posnett’s work in the context of British colonialism: his understanding of literature and literary criticism, his perception of the English and French systems of national literature, and his understanding of world literature and classical literature. Recognising the imperial and colonial context of Comparative Literature additionally highlights the development of literary comparisons, which have marked subsequent discussions in the discipline.

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Rains, Stephanie. "‘Nauseous Tides of Seductive Debauchery’: Irish Story Papers and the Anti-Vice Campaigns of the Early Twentieth Century." Irish University Review 45, no. 2 (November 2015): 263–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/iur.2015.0176.

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This essay explores the relationship between anti-vice campaigns and the popular publishing industry of early-twentieth century Ireland. Specifically, it argues that there existed an informal but strongly symbiotic relationship between the two. The Irish anti-vice campaigns emphasised their objections to imported ‘pernicious literature’ in the form of British newspapers and story papers, thus allying themselves with both religious and nationalist movements of the time in Ireland. The Irish popular press, especially the story papers in direct and unequal competition with their large-scale British equivalents such as the Boys Own Paper, were able to use these moral attacks upon their competitors to position themselves as alternative leisure reading which was both wholesome and patriotic. This essay examines the ways in which Irish story papers such as the Emerald and Ireland's Own were able to use social purity rhetoric as a marketing technique against their British competitors. This occurred even though, as the essay outlines, in many cases the content of their stories was equally sensationalist and also had a strong emphasis upon violence, lurid plotlines and sometimes even sexually-suggestive advertising. Despite this, the anti-vice campaigns reserved their condemnations almost entirely for British publications, thus maintaining a co-operation with Irish publications which benefitted both parties.

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Tilley, Elizabeth. "Daniel O'Connell, the British Press and the Irish Famine (review)." Victorian Periodicals Review 38, no. 3 (2005): 335–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2005.0037.

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Rees, Catherine. "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: the Politics of Morality in Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore." New Theatre Quarterly 21, no. 1 (January 26, 2005): 28–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x04000314.

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The recent plays of Martin McDonagh have fascinated and repelled critics for nearly a decade. His idiosyncratic blend of rural Irish mythology and ‘in-yer-face’ aggression has both caused consternation and won high praise, but the motivations and inspirations of McDonagh's work have not been widely discussed. Here, Catherine Rees addresses some of the common critical assaults on one of his most contentious plays, The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2001), and seeks to rescue the playwright from misunderstanding and heavy-handed critical treatment. She also aims to clarify some of the issues surrounding this politically charged and controversial work, and discusses it within the wider context of British and Irish drama. An earlier version of this article was given as a paper at the ‘Contemporary Irish Literature: Diverse Voices’ conference at the University of Central Lancaster in April 2003. Rees has presented on various aspects of McDonagh's work at a joint American Conference for Irish Studies and British Association of Irish Studies conference, and is currently working on a PhD about his plays at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

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Sullivan, Kelly. "Elizabeth Bowen and the Politics of Consent." Irish University Review 51, no. 1 (May 2021): 24–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/iur.2021.0493.

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As a novelist preoccupied with the sexualized gothic conventions haunting Irish fiction since the eighteenth century, Bowen persistently turns to the fraught concept of British and Irish women's consent during periods of twentieth-century political violence. This article considers Bowen's use of gothic tropes of consent in The Last September (1929) as well as a more sustained engagement with the Irish gothic, citizen-subjecthood, and the political valence of consent in her WWII thriller, The Heat of the Day (1948). It argues that in formulating consent in relation to knowledge, and in articulating the necessarily contractual nature of consent, Bowen seeks to define the ethics of individual rights and responsibility during and after World War Two.

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Matterson, Stephen, and Steven Matthews. "Yeats as Precursor: Readings in Irish, British and American Poetry." Modern Language Review 96, no. 4 (October 2001): 1056. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3735880.

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Cullingford, Elizabeth Butler. "British Romans and Irish Carthaginians: Anticolonial Metaphor in Heaney, Friel, and McGuinness." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 111, no. 2 (March 1996): 222–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/463103.

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Frank McGuinness's Carthaginians (1988) uses the historical relation between Rome and Carthage as a metaphor for the contemporary struggles between Britain and the nationalist community in the North of Ireland. The play, an elegy for thirteen Irish civilians murdered by British paratroopers on Bloody Sunday (30 Jan. 1972) in Derry, draws subversive power from a trope that since the eighteenth century has focused imaginative Irish resistance to British colonial rule. I first explore the history and the gendering of the trope, from early English myths of Trojan descent and medieval Irish genealogies through eighteenth-century antiquarians and philologists, nineteenth-century novelists, Matthew Arnold, and James Joyce. I then examine poems from Seamus Heaney's North, Brian Friel's play Translations, and McGuinness's Carthaginians to show how the pressure of history has revitalized the Rome-Carthage trope, which functions as origin myth, colonial parable, and site of intersection between nationalism and sexuality.

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Hadfield, Andrew. "Grimalkin and other Shakespearean Celts." Sederi, no. 25 (2015): 55–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.34136/sederi.2015.3.

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This essay examines the representation of Ireland and Celtic culture within the British Isles in Shakespeare’s works. It argues that Shakespeare was interested in ideas of colonisation and savagery and based his perceptions on contemporary events, the history of the British Isles and important literary works such as William Baldwin’s prose fiction, Beware the Cat. His plays, notably The Comedy of Errors and Macbeth, represent Protestant England as an isolated culture surrounded by hostile Celtic forces which form a threatening shadowy state. The second part of the essay explores Shakespeare’s influence on Irish culture after his death, arguing that he was absorbed into Anglo-Irish culture and played a major role in establishing Ireland’s Anglophone literary identity. Shakespeare imported the culture of the British Isles into his works – and then, as his fame spread, his plays exported what he had understood back again, an important feature of Anglo-Irish literary identity, as many subsequent writers have understood.

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Wessels, A. "The rhetoric of conflict and conflict by rhetoric: Ireland and the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902)." Literator 20, no. 3 (April 26, 1999): 161–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v20i3.501.

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This article investigates the historical context of Irish involvement in the Anglo- Boer War, but focuses on the literary products - mainly popular ballads and partisan historiography - of this involvement. Irish soldiers participated on both sides of the war, not so much because of identification with South African issues as because it afforded them the opportunity of fighting Irish fights on a displaced battle-field. The war thus presages the explosion of Irish/British strife in 1916 and the subsequent Irish Civil War by more than a decade. As in most wars, the struggle was conducted by the pen and by the sword and the popular Irish verse of the time reveals the sentiments of fervent Irish imperialists, defending the causes of Empire, fervent Irish nationalists espousing the Boer cause, as well as movingly suggesting the dilemma of the majority of Irish combatants, fighting for England while sympathizing with the Boers.

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Gahan, Peter. "The Theatre of War: The First World War in British and Irish Drama." Shaw 28 (January 1, 2008): 243–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40681789.

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Gahan, Peter. "The Theatre of War: The First World War in British and Irish Drama." Shaw 28 (January 1, 2008): 243–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/shaw.28.2008.0243.

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McAteer, Michael. "T. W. Rolleston’s Ireland through a Polish Prism." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 12, no. 1 (October 1, 2020): 42–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2020-0004.

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Abstract A founding member of the Irish Literary Society, an early member of the Gaelic League, and a leading figure in the Irish Co-operative Movement, Thomas William Rolleston was one of the most notable figures in movements for Irish cultural and economic revival during the late nineteenth/early twentieth century. Rolleston also had a keen interest in German literature and culture, developed originally from the four years that he lived in Wiesbaden and Dresden between 1879 and 1883. This experience granted him some appreciation of conditions that obtained in Germany prior to the outbreak of the First World War, including Prussian-Polish relations. In 1917, Rolleston published a significant pamphlet assessing Irish-British relations during the decades preceding the 1916 Rising in Ireland as compared with relations between Prussia and Poland over the same period. Rolleston rejects a widespread view in Ireland that the moral authority, which the British Government had accorded to itself as a defender of the rights of small nations in the war against Germany, had been fatally compromised by its willingness to countenance Polish independence while continuing to oppose Irish independence. This essay considers the contrasts that Rolleston draws between Ireland and Poland in 1917 in the light of his general views on the Irish language question and Irish politics during the 1900s.

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Wolwacz, Andrea Ferras. "TOM PAULIN'S POETRY OF TROUBLES." Organon 34, no. 67 (December 9, 2019): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.22456/2238-8915.96943.

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This paper is part of my PhD thesis. It examines contemporary Northern Irish Literature written in English with the help of the theoretical approach of Irish Studies. It aims to introduce and make a critique of poetry written by Tom Paulin, a contemporary British poet who is regarded one of the major Protestant Irish writers to emerge from Ulster province. The thread pursued in this analysis relates to an investigation of how ideological discourses and the issues of identity are represented in the poet’s work. The author’s critical evaluation of existing ideologies and identities and his attempt to respond to them will also be analyzed. Four poems from three different collections are investigate. Paulin’s poems function as testimonies, denouncement and criticism of the Irish history.

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Graf, Stephen. "Begrudgery & Brehon Law: A Literary Examination of the Roots of Resentment in Pre-Modern Ireland." World Journal of Social Science Research 3, no. 1 (March 31, 2016): 62. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/wjssr.v3n1p62.

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<p><em>This essay traces the published roots of the components of Irish begrudgery in early Irish literature (</em><em>Táin Bó Cúailnge and other ancient Irish myths) and </em><em>Brehon legal tracts (such as the Senchus Mór and The Book of Aicill)</em><em>. First, the power of language in a predominantly oral culture is explored through examples like cursing and the peculiarly Irish type of satirist. A brief explanation of the functioning and history of Brehon law is provided, and the connections between Brehon law, literature and begrudgery are considered. </em><em>Begrudgery is then tied to Nietzsche’s theory of ressentiment as both are distinguished primarily by a concern and involvement with power. While the elimination of Brehon law cannot be linked directly to the rise in begrudgery, the two events emerged from the same historical conditions. It was British colonialism that removed Brehon law from Irish society, just as the long colonial period offered a perfect environment for a sentiment like begrudgery to flourish as a widespread social phenomenon. So, while the apparatuses of begrudgery existed well before the English invasion, and although examples of early begrudgers can be found in ancient Irish literature, it was the colonial period that gave birth to modern Irish begrudgery.</em><em></em></p>

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Woodward, Guy. "Douglas Goldring: ‘An Englishman’ and 1916." Literature & History 26, no. 2 (September 5, 2017): 195–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306197317724666.

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In October 1914, the English writer and publisher Douglas Goldring was invalided out of the British Army. By 1916, he had become a conscientious objector and moved to Ireland, where he lived for the next two years, witnessing the aftermath of the Easter Rising. Illuminating connections between the pacifist movement in Britain and Irish Republicanism, his writings of this period – including two Irish travelogues and a propagandist semi-autobiographical bildungsroman, The Fortune (1917) – disclose transnational and transcultural networks of resistance and dissidence, and show how the Rising and its aftermath helped to radicalise pacifist writers in London.

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Drąg, Wojciech. "The Curricular Canon of Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century British and Irish Literature at Polish Universities." Anglica Wratislaviensia 56 (November 22, 2018): 45–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0301-7966.56.4.

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In 2007 Philip Tew and Mark Addis released Final Report: Survey on Teaching Contemporary British Fiction, whose aim was to establish the most popular authors and works as taught by academics at British universities. The purpose of this article is to present the results of a similar survey, which examines the reading lists of British and Irish literature courses offered in the English departments of chosen Polish universities in Warsaw, Gdańsk, Toruń, Poznań, Łódź, Lublin, Wrocław, Opole and Kraków. A discussion of the results — most commonly taught writers and texts — is accompanied by an analysis based on an online survey of the lecturers’ motivations behind including certain texts and omitting others. I will argue that whereas the teaching canon of modernist texts appears fixed all the reading lists include works by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats and T.S. Eliot, the canon of post-war and contemporary literature is yet to emerge. I shall also assert the appearance of the so called “canon lag” and review the selection criteria for the inclusion of canonical texts. The article concludes with a consideration of the texts that appear most likely to join the curricular canons at Polish universities in the near future. All the discussions are set in the context of critical contributions to the study of canonicity made by Harold Bloom, Nick Bentley, Dominic Head and others.

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McLane, M. N. "ERIK SIMPSON. Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830: Minstrels and Improvisers in British, Irish, and American Literature." Review of English Studies 60, no. 246 (May 20, 2009): 657–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/res/hgp045.

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O'Higgins, Paul. "Bibliography of Periodical Literature on British and Irish Labour Law Published in 1985—Part II." Industrial Law Journal 16, no. 1 (1987): 138–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ilj/16.1.138.

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O'Higgins, Paul. "Bibliography of Periodical Literature on British and Irish Labour Law Published in 1985—Part I." Industrial Law Journal 16, no. 1 (1987): 74–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ilj/16.1.74.

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Hultin, Neil C. "Anglo-Irish Folklore from Clonmel: T. C. Croker and British Library Add. 20099." Fabula 27, Jahresband (January 1986): 288–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fabl.1986.27.1.288.

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Bingham, Natasha, and Christopher Duffy. "National Identity after a Conflict: National Identity Choice among Northern Irish Youth." Comparative Sociology 16, no. 6 (November 22, 2017): 716–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341443.

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Abstract This work uses multinomial logistic regression to explore how Northern Irish youth view their national identity and the factors that shape their self-identification post-1998 Good Friday Agreement. We use the 2005-2015 Northern Ireland Young Life and Times Surveys of 16-year-olds to investigate these questions. The results indicate that intergroup contact is less influential than environmental factors on national identity. Residential and school composition has more of an effect on solidifying Irish identity than British identity (relative to that of a Northern Irish identity). Our work adds to the literature on national identity development and choice among young adults in post-conflict and post-peace-agreement environments.

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Russell, Richard Rankin. "The Theatre of War: The First World War in British and Irish Drama." English Studies 90, no. 4 (August 2009): 499–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138380902796870.

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Gill, Jo. "The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry by Tim Kendall." Modern Language Review 103, no. 3 (2008): 838–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2008.0347.

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Stout, J. P. "TIM KENDALL (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry." Review of English Studies 58, no. 237 (November 12, 2007): 753–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/res/hgm102.

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Matteo, Livio Di. "The Wealth of the Irish in Nineteenth-Century Ontario." Social Science History 20, no. 2 (1996): 209–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s014555320002160x.

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This article examines a new set of historical microdata for insights on the wealth of the Irish in late-nineteenth-century Ontario. Regression analysis is used to determine whether or not the wealth of the Irish-born differed significantly from that of the Canadian-born and other birthplace groups.The traditional view has been that the Irish in nineteenth-century North America were impoverished and economically disadvantaged. In the American literature, certainly, Irish immigrants have been viewed as penniless, technologically backward, and inclined to reject rural for urban life because of their experience of famine (Akenson 1988: 48). Recent American empirical work has supported this view. For example, Stephen Herscovici (1993: 329) finds that in nineteenth-century Boston the native-born held significantly more wealth than immigrants and that the wealth of the Irish did not substantially increase over time. Ferrie (1994: 10) finds that the Irish-born were 69% less wealthy than the British-born in 1850 and that this gap rose to 72% in 1860, if age and duration in the United States are controlled for.

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Pulkkinen, Oili. "Russia and Euro-Centric Geography During the British Enlightenment." Transcultural Studies 14, no. 2 (December 12, 2018): 150–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23751606-01402003.

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In this article, I shall examine the European part of the Russian Empire, Russian culture and Russians in eighteenth century handbooks of geography when “the Newtonian turn” took place in that discipline. Thanks to travel literature and history writing, we are used to thinking of the Russians as representing “otherness” in Europe. Still, in handbooks of geography, Russia was the gate between Asia and Europe. This article will explicate the stereotype(s) of the British characterisations of the Russian national character and the European part of the Russian Empire (excluding ethnic minorities in Russia), in order to reconstruct the idea of Russia in the British (and Irish) geography books.

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