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The cultural dynamics of reception
(Duke University Press, 2020-01-01)The cultural dynamics of reception are best understood as a reiterative process of reshaping and reframing. Reception as an object of critical study embraces first the history of how texts were read, disseminated, and ... -
Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels and anti-Irish prejudice
(Center for Irish Studies at the University of St. Thomas, 2007)It is by now taken as axiomatic that representations of Irish characters in Victorian literature were generally negative. However, as Roy Foster shows, they were not universally so; we find one example of a positive treatment ... -
Exile, pistols, and promised lands: Ibsen and Israeli modernist writers
(MDPI, 2019-09-17)Allusions to Henrik Ibsen's plays in the works of two prominent Israeli modernist writers, Amos Oz s autobiographical A Tale of Love and Darkness (2004) and David Grossman s The Zigzag Kid (1994) examined in the context ... -
Towards an interconnected history of World War I: Europe and beyond
(Brill, 2016)In recent years, the historiography of World War I has undergone a very significant transformation in terms of its geographical scope and thematic reach. While most studies of World War I up to the 1990s focused on ... -
Locating the centre: Irish traditional music and re-traditionalisation at the Willie Clancy Summer School
(Irish Academic Press, 2013-05-01)The Willie Clancy Summer School is the foremost school for Irish traditional music transmission and practice in the annual Irish traditional music calendar. !e particular success of the Willie Clancy Week (as it is more ... -
From Milan to Kilbaha: Bronzing Irish traditional music
(Irish American Cultural Institute, 2019)Monuments represent important anchoring devices, tying “collective remembering” to physical places and mobilizing a sense of shared memory and identity consolidation (Rowlands and Tilley 500).1 In the specifically Irish ... -
Musical statues: Monumentalising Irish traditional music
(Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015)The year 2016 has generated a considerable degree of both academic and popular interest into processes of remembering and public forms of commemoration which in turn provoke questions about the meaning and interpretation ... -
A journey of found and lost: The concept of East Galway regional style in Irish traditional music
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The crustiest and most personally unbiddable of instruments : Éamonn Ceannt and the pipes
(Na Píobairí Uilleann, 2016-04)É is perhaps one of the least AMONN CEANNT well-known leaders of the 1916 Rising. De- 1 scribed variously as a reserved, quiet, somewhat taciturn and private figure, he has been easily eclipsed by ies amongst the other ... -
Past practice into future policy: A model for historical reflection in the humanitarian sector
(Manchester University Press, 2019-05-01)This article describes the results of a pilot project on using historical reflection as a tool for policy-making in the humanitarian sector. It begins by establishing the rationale for integrating reflection into humanitarian ... -
‘Out of Proportion to the Small Loss’: Productivist agriculture in the farming novels of John McGahern and Halldór Laxness
(Edinburgh University Press, 2019-05)Ireland and Iceland, both (semi-)peripheral islands in relation to Europe's core hegemonic capitalism, once shared similar farming systems based on small holdings and rotational grazing. Today, however, agriculture looks ... -
Globalising the Easter Rising: 1916 and the challenge to empires
(Routledge, 2017-11-16)The year 1916 has recently been identified as “a tipping point for the intensification of protests, riots, uprisings and even revolutions.”1 Many of these constituted a challenge to the international pre-war order of ... -
Louise Hollandine and the Art of Arachnean Critique
(Amsterdam University Press, 2019-07-22)Louise Hollandine was an artist and student of internationally renowned Dutch painter Gerard van Honthorst. Though relatively few works now survive that can be authoritatively ascribed to her, Louise Hollandine s artistic ... -
From travel to mobility: Perspectives on journeys in the Russian, Central and East European past
(Routledge, 2019-03-28)This chapter introduces the “new mobilities paradigm” and argues for its application to the modern history of Russia, central and east Europe. It charts the emergence of this approach in the context of the more established ... -
Translating Ovid's Metamorphoses in Tudor balladry
(University of Chicago Press, 2019-06-05)This article provides the first sustained overview and analysis of the reception of Ovid s Metamorphoses in sixteenth-century English ballad culture. It highlights a significant tradition of translating materials from this ... -
Latecomers to reform? Catholic activism in the wake of the French wars of religion
(Studies, The Irish Jesuit Quarterly, 2017-11)100 years after Martin Luther wrote his Ninety-Five theses, France found itself on the cusp of an extraordinary period of Catholic ascendency. From the violence and bloodshed of four decades of civil war came an age of ... -
Men, women, and not quite non-persons: derivatization in Roxana
(Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, 2018)This article argues that Roxana exemplifies a peculiarly modern mode of “derivatization”: a form of “ontological reductionism” articulated by Ann J. Cahill in which individuals are diminished to “the reflection, projection, ... -
Bring a camera with you: the posthumous collaboration of Ahmed Basiony and Shady El Noshokaty
(The European Society for Aesthetics, 2015)In this paper, I investigate the role of digital technology and its relationship to gesture in the posthumous collaboration of Ahmed Basiony and Shady El Noshokaty, drawing upon the philosophy of Bernard Stiegler. Picking ... -
Ovidian retro-metamorphosis on the Elizabethan stage
(McMaster University Library Press and Becker Associates, 2018-11-02)Although Ovid dedicated his Metamorphoses to the subject of change, the vast majority of the corporeal alterations catalogued in this ancient Roman poem are singular, permanent transformations. In contrast, dramatists ...