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Detective fiction in Chile: Developments in the genre
(McFarland, 2023-10)This article discusses the consolidation in the 1990s of Chile¿s neopolicial works that combine hard-boiled and political elements, reassesses earlier twentieth-century genre writers, and examines the wider diversity of ... -
Didattica performativa nella promozione della lingua e cultura Italiana in Irlanda: il corpo e la danza come strumenti di apprendimento linguistico e ponti tra culture
(Università degli Studi di Milano, 2022-01-26)Negli ultimi anni si è assistito a un progressivo interesse riguardo all’impiego delle arti performative in campo glottodidattico. Tale tendenza è dovuta ad approcci didattici sempre più orientati alla dimensione sociale ... -
The Discovery of Phocaean Red Slip Ware (PRSW) Form 3 and Bii ware (LR1 amphorae) on sites in Ireland - an analysis within a broader framework
(Royal Irish Academy, 2010-04-29)Phocaean Red Slip Ware and Bii amphorae sherds have been identified, by the present author, at the site of Collierstown 1, County Meath. One of the advantages of discovering Phocaean Red Slip Ware Form 3 on sites in ... -
Discussion paper on Irish language radio broadcasting
(NUI Galway and Mary Immaculate College, UL, 2018-01)This discussion paper presents the findings of the first phase of an ongoing study into the use of Irish language on the country s radio stations, other than those that broadcast exclusively in Irish. Under broadcasting ... -
'Do Sheans': Children's agency in integrating Scottish Gaelic and Irish into 'Happy Families'
(Cló Léann na Gaeilge, 2023-03-16)[No abstract] -
Double-voicing and rubber ducks: the dominance of English in the imaginative play of two bilingual sisters
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2020-05-05)Through analysis of a video recording of two bilingual siblings playing with rubber ducks, this article explores the concept that imaginative play can serve as a potential site for language shift. The article argues that ... -
Dragging up the past: subversive performance of gender and sexual identities in traditional and contemporary Irish culture
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This chapter places contemporary drag performance in Ireland within a historical context of dissident, subversive elements of Irish popular culture. The practice of drag, as a performative and political strategy with the ... -
The early Old Irish material in the newly discovered Computus Einsidlensis (c. AD 700)
(Royal Irish Academy, 2008)The Computus Einsidlensis (Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, 321 (647), pp. 82-125) is a recently discovered text in the Swiss monastery of Einsiedeln. Besides its importance for the study of computistics in the early middle ... -
"Embarking, Not Dying": Clare Boylan's Beloved Stranger as Reifungsroman
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Enactments concerning the Irish language, 1922 - 2016
(Clarus Press on behalf of the School of Law, Trinity College, Dublin, 2016)The Official Languages Act (henceforth OLA) of 2003 gave limited expression to the constitutional status of Irish as first official language by obliging public bodies to provide a restricted number of services in Irish. ... -
Flutes, pipes, or bagpipes? Observations on the terminology of woodwind instruments in Old and Middle Irish
(Brepols, 2015-01)Old and Middle Irish sources offer a rich array of terms referring to woodwind instruments. However, terms like buinne, cúisech, cuisle, fetán, pípa, etc. are variously translated as ‘flute’, ‘whistle’, ‘pipe’, ‘bagpipe’ ... -
From Athens to Managua: Myth and sacrifice in Michele Najlis' Cantos de Ifigenia
(Liverpool University Press, 2012)Michele Najlis is a Nicaraguan poet whose work emerged alongside the Sandinista insurrection. The Sandinistas were removed from office in 1990, creating, in political and cultural terms, one of those 'boundary situations' ... -
From Galway Bay to Sydney Harbour: Joe Heaney's Concert at the Sydney Opera House in 1981
(An Cumann Le Béaloideas Éireann/Folklore of Ireland Society, 2013)Discussion of performance strategies of singer Joe Heaney's concert in the Opera House in Sydney in January 1981. -
Gabriel Rosenstock (*1949):"The Rejection of the Early Morning Dew"
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An Gael agus an raidió: Craoltóireacht na Gaeilge tar éis bhunú an stáit
(Comhar, 2018-09)Léiríonn an caidreamh idir an chraoltóireacht agus an Ghaeilge san 20ú Aois go leor idé-eolaíochtaí casta maidir leis an gcainteoir dúchais agus leis an bhfoghlaimeoir, agus faoin gceangal idir tógáil na féiniúlachta agus ... -
The Gaelic Undertow: Seán Ó hEochaidh's field trip to the Bluestacks in 1947
(Cambridge Scholars' Press, 2013)A discussion of perspectives by Seán Ó hEochaidh in life in the Bluestack Mountains, Co. Donegal, in the mid-twentieth century. -
'Gan Unsa ar Bith Céille': An Fhearúlacht agus An Bharántúlacht in Dhá amhrán le Seosamh Ó hÉanaí.Béaloideas
(An Cumann Le Béaloideas Éireann/Folklore of Ireland Society, 2009)Glactar leis an bharantúlacht mar cheist mhór i gcúrsaí béaloidis sa lá atá inniu ann.4 Tá roinnt mhaith staidéir chomh maith déanta ar chúrsaí inscne i Léann an Bhéaloidis in Éirinn5 agus roinnt bheag a dhíríonn ar an ...