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Diana, Dido, and The Fair Maid of Dunsmore: classical precursors, common tunes, and the question of consent in seventeenth-century balladry
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-11-24)The tragedy of Isabel of Dunsmore an English shepherd s daughter who commits suicide after being impregnated by a social superior is recounted in two similar, yet lyrically distinct seventeenth-century ballads: The ... -
Gower’s slothful Aeneas in Batman’s Christall Glasse of Christian Reformation
(Oxford University Press, 2014-08-01)ALTHOUGH early modern medievalisms have been the subject of considerable interest in recent scholarship, much work remains to be done on the literary reception and influence of John Gower’s only major vernacular work, ... -
To the tune of "Queen Dido": The spectropoetics of early modern English balladry
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Resurrecting Shakespeare's ghost plays
(Oxford University Press, 2018-09-04)This article draws attention to a group of remarkably similar novels published between 2003 and 2009: William Martin s Harvard Yard, Jennifer Lee Carrell s The Shakespeare Secret (also known as Interred with Their Bones), ... -
Arachne in Marlowe’s ‘Ad amicam corruptam’ (Amores 2.5)
(Oxford University Press, 2018-09-20)When, at the close of the sixteenth century, Christopher Marlowe’s rendition of Amores 2.5 posthumously appeared in All Ovids Elegies (the earliest vernacular translation of this work to have been published in Europe and ... -
‘Found in a “dying” condition’: nurse-children in Ireland, 1872–1952
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‘Great Joys Were My Share Always’: Ibsenite echoes in Synge’s Deirdre of the Sorrows
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Sport, representation, and the commemoration of the 1916 Rising: a new Ireland rises?
(European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS), the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies (RIISS) in Aberdeen, and the University of Leuven, 2018-10-24)Commemoration is part of what defines nations and their configurations; the considerable investment of the Irish state (and various sporting organisations) during 2016 in 1916 commemorations speaks to the importance of ... -
Central places in a rural archaeological landscape
(Eagle Hill Institute, 2018)Archaeological survey in western Ireland has identified the existence of clusters of activity within the mapped landscapes of the 5th to 12th centuries A.D. Exploring this further, it is possible to identify elements ... -
A theatre of truth? Negotiating place, politics and policy in the Dublin Fringe Festival
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'Perform, or Else!'
(ISTR Irish Society for Theatre Research, 2014)This latest issue of Irish Theatre International bridges the discourses of theatre practice and research with that of performance studies, and also with the ways in which social, economic, political and cultural activities ... -
Family and power: Incest and Ireland, 1880-1950
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Intercultural masculinities in the contemporary Irish theatre
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Monstrosity, monument and multiplication: The lamenting Lady Margaret of Henneberg (and her 365 children) in Early Modern England
(Cambria Press, 2014-08-28)Extraordinary and fantastical stories about Margaret of Henneberg, a cursed thirteenth-century Countess who had allegedly birthed 365 infants in one day, were popular with early modern English audiences. A range of ... -
Interrogating institutionalisation and child welfare: the Irish case, 1939 1991
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-02-20)The topic of institutionalisation and child welfare in Ireland has garnered increasing national and international public and scholarly attention over the past twenty years. This is not an Irish phenomenon. Governments ... -
Parenting, poverty and the NSPCC in Ireland, 1889–1939
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)This chapter addresses a number of key questions surrounding parenting, poverty and the state in Ireland from 1889 to 1939.1 Concentrating on the period from the opening of the first Irish branch of the National Society ... -
‘Growing Up Poor’: child welfare, motherhood and the State during the First World War
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-11-23)In the history of child welfare in Ireland and other western countries, the period during the First World War coincided with a time of international attention on poor and working-class families and children. As this occurred ...