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Frawley, Oona. "Irish pastoral : nostalgia and twentieth-century Irish literature /." Dublin : Irish academic press, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb400138598.
Full textSheridan, Ríonnagh. "'Irish ways and Irish laws' : literature and law in the contemporary Irish novel." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709817.
Full textLehner, Stefanie Florence. "Subaltern aesthethics : tracing counter-histories in contemporary Scottish, Irish and Northern Irish literature." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3305.
Full textKennedy, Eimear. "Intercultural encounter in Irish-language travel literature." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2017. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.727414.
Full textQuaintmere, Max. "Aspects of memory in medieval Irish literature." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/9026/.
Full textPhillips, Veronica Middleton. "Authority and dispossession in medieval Irish literature." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708252.
Full textStubbs, Tara M. C. "'Irish by descent' : Marianne Moore, Irish writers and the American-Irish Inheritance." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bf87b5ea-4baa-4a46-9509-2c59e738e2a1.
Full textReimer, Eric J. "'My passport's green' : Irishness in the new world order /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3055706.
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McAleavey, James. "Spenser and a beginning for Anglo-Irish literature." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388222.
Full textWydenbach, Joanna Susan. "Irish women's fiction 1900-1924 : literature and history." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.437734.
Full textHeaney, Liam Francis. "Aspects of scientific thought in modern Irish literature." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337048.
Full textMooney, Mick. "The position of the child in Irish literature." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/39036/.
Full textBlustein, Rebecca Danielle. "Kingship, history and mythmaking in medieval Irish literature." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1432770931&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textSnyder, Taylor A. "Mother Ireland and Her Daughters: Irish Women Writers and their Contributions to the Irish Literary Identity." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1367599203.
Full textRea, Jennifer Anne. "Adventures on Windswept Islands: Children's Literature, Adolescence, and the Possibilities of Irish Culture in the Work of Eilís Dillon." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/339.
Full textFanning, David F. "Irish Republican literature 1968-1998 "Standing on the Threshold of Another Trembling World" /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1068495916.
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Chapman, Bridget M. "Regular Wild Irish: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Irish American Fiction." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/117827.
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Regular Wild Irish: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Irish American Fiction examines the ways in which Irish American writers construct "Irishness" in fictional texts which borrow from and respond to literary and cultural discourses in the United States and Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It analyzes the short fiction and novels of Irish immigrant and Irish American authors writing from the antebellum period through the early twentieth century and particularly focuses on those figures who were publishing in the 1890s. Regular Wild Irish considers the links between the representational strategies used by Irish American writers and broader domestic and international discourses of race and ethnicity in the period. It argues that, while participating in various U.S. literary traditions such as sentimentalism, regionalism, and realism, Irish American writers complicated standard literary and visual representations of Irishness. Regular Wild Irish establishes that Irish American writers mobilized key, if sometimes competing, cultural discourses to shape an image of the American Irish that both engaged with national and transatlantic popular and literary discourses and theorized emergent forms of ethnic and racial identification in the late nineteenth century. Ultimately, Regular Wild Irish demonstrates that if, at the turn into the twenty-first century, Irishness is a "politically insulated" form of ethnic identity fashionable at a moment when white identity seems to be "losing its social purchase," then it is worth thinking seriously about how Irishness was represented at the turn into the twentieth century, when the terms "white" and "Irish" bore a different, if related, set of anxieties than they do today.
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Fairbairn, Hazel. "Group playing in traditional Irish music." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282816.
Full textFanning, David Francis. "Irish Republican Literature 1968-1998: “Standing on the Threshold of Another Trembling World”." The Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1068495916.
Full textBachorz, Stephanie Vanessa. "Dialectics of postcoloniality : Adorno and 20th-century Irish literature." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517204.
Full textO'Rawe, Desmond. "Encountering Eros : discourses on desire in contemporary Irish literature." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301033.
Full textShields, Kathleen Mary. "Self and community in recent Irish poetry." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.292222.
Full textSewell, Frankie. "Extending the Alhambra : four modern Irish poets." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267793.
Full textOehling, Richard. "Contemporary Irish Fiction: Lavin and Trevor." W&M ScholarWorks, 1985. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625307.
Full textEldred, Laura Gail Thornton Weldon. "A brutalized culture the horror genre in contemporary Irish literature /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,81.
Full textTitle from electronic title page (viewed Oct. 10, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English." Discipline: English; Department/School: English.
Troeger, Rebecca Louise. "The Formation of Musical Communities in Twentieth Century Irish Literature." Thesis, Boston College, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3837.
Full textThis dissertation is situated within the opening field of Irish literary and musical interdisciplinary studies and argues that a scholarly focus on the presence of music within Irish literature and culture opens new readings and perspectives. Drawing on cultural studies and musicology, I focus on the musical moment as a limited space during which identities and relationships are dynamically refigured. Through this approach, I look at the formations of communal and individual identities in and through musical performances, the production of gendered identities through music, and musical constructions of memory and the past. The first two chapters of my study deal specifically with the development of gendered identities through musical performance. Chapter 1 focuses on William Butler Yeats' and Augusta Gregory's variations on the trope of the male wandering musician as reflected in their writings on the Galway singer and poet Anthony Raftery, and the effects of Yeats' interest in Raftery on the evolution of his poetic persona, Red Hanrahan. I argue that Raftery, as introduced to Yeats by Lady Gregory, was pivotal to the evolution of Yeats' self-image as a national poet and helped to define his thoughts on poetry as a performed and musical art. Chapter 2 focuses on opera as a venue for an increased range of personal expression for female characters in Joyce. In it, I argue that the strictly disciplined nature of operatic roles allow Julia Morkan of "The Dead" and Molly Bloom of Ulysses a level of agility with gender identity otherwise unavailable to them. Chapter 3 moves from the gendered individual to communal and national identity as reflected in the musical events at the 1932 Eucharistic Congress in Dublin. In it, I argue that the musical performances throughout this event briefly opened a unique social space in which contradictory versions of Irish identity could coexist. Finally, Chapter 4 moves ahead to the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, focusing on Roddy Doyle's approaches to communal musical experience, the negotiations of identities through music, and constructions of memory through music in The Commitments and The Guts. Here, I consider the issues of cultural connections and appropriations examined by critics of The Commitments and extend these questions to a reading of The Guts. Drawing on Arjun Appadurai's work on the mobility of cultures and the availability of the past as "raw material" for the present, I argue that The Guts shows how a fraudulent "found" recording of a fictional singer can provide a needed ancestor who articulates a needed narrative of defiance and survival for a 2012 audience
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2014
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
Cammack, Susanne. "Gramophonic Trauma: The Object as Cultural Mnemonic in Irish Literature." OpenSIUC, 2016. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1192.
Full textTurner, Kerry Lynn. "Pagan Nostalgia and Anti-Clerical Hostility in Medieval Irish Literature." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1008344167.
Full textHorton, Patricia. "Romantic intersections : romanticism and contemporary Northern Irish poetry." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337039.
Full textMcMullen, Albert Joseph. "Echoes of Early Irish Influence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467346.
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Maloney, Cahill B. Claire. "Samuel Beckett and the Irish grotesque tradition." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22606.
Full textAfter an initial chapter on the relevant theoretical and national considerations, the prodigious cloacal visions of Beckett and Joyce are compared, with emphasis on their use of the grotesque to demythologize the creative process. A fourth chapter compares O'Brien's and Beckett's exploitation of the grotesque to undermine hegemonic philosophical and epistemological systems.
Like most writers of the grotesque tradition, Joyce and O'Brien assume a degree of moral responsibility by affirming, explicitly or implicitly, some traditional or utopian values and standards, while Beckett's deliberations on the complex relationship between Nature, the mind and the body end in negation, impotence and the hope of silence.
Corr, Christopher Joseph. "English literary culture and the Irish literary revival : the provenance of the aesthetic of modern Irish literature in English, 1865-1900." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260997.
Full textMcGowan, Pauline Dympna. "Women in Irish prose - early and modern." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337022.
Full textLehmann-Shriver, Edyta Anna. "The Power of Words: Female Speech as a Narrative Force in Irish Tales across Centuries." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10430.
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Pitrone, Barbara A. "Emerging Imagery: The Great Famine in Nineteenth Century Irish Lit." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1377101869.
Full textBates, Robin E. Relihan Constance Caroline. "Shakespeare and the cultural impressment of Ireland." Auburn, Ala., 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1281.
Full textO, Gallchoir Cliona. "Maria Edgeworth and the rise of national literature." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313898.
Full textPowell-Pickering, Jessica L. "Warriors, lovers, mothers : women's physical powers in the Irish sagas /." View online, 2008. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131436233.pdf.
Full textWalsh, Maeve. "Re:vision : the interpretation of history in contemporary Irish drama." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286613.
Full textMac, Caba Seamus. "The neutral heart : Irish poetry and World War II." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307544.
Full textBrearton, Frances Elizabeth. "Creation from conflict : the Great War in Irish poetry." Thesis, Durham University, 1998. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5042/.
Full textGillis, A. A. "Awakening constellations : history in Irish poetry of the 1930s." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390887.
Full textHassaine, F. "Moore, Joyce and the modernist Anglo-Irish short story." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372957.
Full textClark, Lauren. "Modest proposals: Irish children, consumer culture, advertising and literature, 1860-1921." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.592883.
Full textMcKeown, Aisling. "The migrant in contemporary Irish literature and film : representations and perspectives." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2013. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/8z0x4/the-migrant-in-contemporary-irish-literature-and-film-representations-and-perspectives.
Full textMatheson, Laura E. "Madness and deception in Irish and Norse-Icelandic sagas." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2015. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=227591.
Full textJackson, Ellen-Raïssa. "Cultural identity in contemporary Scottish and Irish writing." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1999. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2548/.
Full textWilliams, Justine Isabella. "The Irish plays of James Shirley, 1636-1640." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2010. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3933/.
Full textBradley, Kristen A. "A Tennessee Irish Picnic| Foodways and Complex Community Dynamics." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3622924.
Full textSt. Patrick's Irish Picnic and Homecoming is a barbecue event held every July in the small town of McEwen, Tennessee, located just west of Nashville. Each year, volunteers for the event barbecue 20,000 pounds of pork shoulder and 4,000 chicken halves. With its massive size, the event is the primary fundraiser for St. Patrick's Church and School, and as such holds great importance within the community. A Tennessee Irish Picnic examines the history, culture, and folklore of the event, analyzing it as it fits within the larger context of barbecue in the American South. Utilizing archival research and interviews with event volunteers and St. Patrick's parishioners, the author's ethnographic approach reveals many similarities between the event and the overarching cultural narrative of barbecue. In other ways, however, the event stands in alternative to these interpretations. Although cultural depictions of barbecue portray the foodway as a marginalizing experience between north and south, female and male, white and black, primitive and civilized, an investigation of the narrative on a smaller scale reveals the complexities of the foodway as a mark of community history and group and personal identities. The event becomes important not only on a financial level, but also in terms of understanding community dynamics.
Campbell, Alexandra. "Archipelagic poetics : ecology in modern Scottish and Irish poetry." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/9102/.
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