Browsing by Subject "Irish Studies"
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The art of Jack B Yeats and John Sloan: Connections and change
(NUI Galway, 2020-11-11)In 1904, at the instigation of his patron John Quinn, and on the occasion of his first solo show in the city, Jack B Yeats spent six weeks in New York. Three years later, his father John Butler Yeats arrived in Manhattan, ... -
Coming 'Home': place, belonging and second-generation return migration from England to Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2018-09-28)This thesis contributes to the growing academic interest in the second-generation of migrants and the connections they maintain with their parental places of origin. It focuses on the children of the Irish emigrants to ... -
Discursive representations and translation practice: the constructed reader of Irish literature in Italian
(2013-05-31)This thesis approaches translation as a transformative act, which involves the decontextualisation of the source text and its recontextualisation within the target language culture. For literary works, the attempt to make ... -
An Fhrainc Iathghlas? Tionchar na Fraince ar Athbheochan na Gaeilge, 1893-1922
(2013-07-25)Chuireas romham sa tráchtas seo tionchar na Fraince agus na Fraincise ar Athbheochan na Gaeilge a rianadh. Áiteofar go raibh ceannairí na hAthbheochana go mór faoi anáil na Fraince agus na Fraincise, agus gur fhéachadar ... -
Haunting noises: Irish popular music and the digital era
(NUI Galway, 2020-11-16)This research examines the response of Irish popular musicians to the changing modes of reception and production in the digital era. In this examination, the use of both media and environmental noise in the recording process ... -
Irish Studies in continental Europe today and its potential
(EFACIS European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies IZWV, 2018)This report provides an overview and analysis of the place and potential of Irish Studies in Continental Europe. -
‘It was in the Air’: Micro and macro flows in the changing soundscape of Irish traditional music in Galway, 1961 to 1981
(NUI Galway, 2024-04-18)This thesis investigates the emergence of a vibrant Irish traditional music scene in Galway City and explores changes in its soundscape, from 1961 to 1981. Changes in the world of traditional music, embedded in Irish ... -
A kind of mime: Cultural politics and narrative experiment in the works of Samuel Beckett, Máirtín Ó Cadhain, and Brian Ó Nualláin
(NUI Galway, 2019-09-27)This thesis is a trilingual comparative literary study, analysing the works of Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906-1970), and Brian Ó Nualláin (1911-1966). This study will argue that the very particular ... -
Landscape legacies: the renegotiation of the Irish west in contemporary visual culture
(NUI Galway, 2019-02-21)This thesis examines the cultural legacy of the landscape of the West of Ireland and its lasting impact on the contemporary visualization of the region. Through a critical examination of the historic underpinning and ... -
A new model: Seán Ó Riada, Ceoltóirí Cualann and Irish traditional music
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-19)This interdisciplinary thesis examines the history of Seán Ó Riada’s traditional ensemble Ceoltóirí Cualann and investigates the significance of the new group model for Irish traditional music that Ó Riada developed from ... -
“On the Wisp” Rethinking birthplace in Ireland for a more-than-human world
(NUI Galway, 2024-02-21)At the beginning of the twentieth century, most Irish people’s birthplace was synonymous with their homeplace. However, by the end of the century, 99% of all Irish births occurred in hospital settings. In that time there ... -
Re-directing George Bernard Shaw: Exploring the staging of Shaw's play-texts for contemporary audiences through practice as research
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-08)At the convergence of performance studies and Shavian studies, this thesis explores the staging of Shaw’s play-texts for contemporary audiences through Practice as Research (PaR). This document charts and analyses three ... -
Ridding ourselves of the past: Trauma, testimony and the Irish Civil War
(NUI Galway, 2020-09-22)This dissertation complicates the widespread scholarly and popular belief that the Irish Civil War (1922–1923) was followed by a ‘traumatic silence’. It achieves this by opening up an alternative archive of published civil ... -
The role of Irish and Irish-themed media in the formation and maintenance of Irish cultural identity in Britain
(NUI Galway, 2023-05-31)This thesis is an exploration of the role of Irish media in the formation and maintenance of Irish cultural identity in Britain. Cultural identity is understood as a discursive construct formed and maintained by social ... -
“Will you meet me on Clare Island?”: Music-making, islandness and ethnography in a small island community
(NUI Galway, 2020-09-29)This dissertation presents an ethnographic account of music and social life on Clare Island, a small community off the west coast of Ireland. Focusing on the structures and settings of music-making, the research details ...