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Francis Hutcheson's aesthetics and his critics in Ireland: Charles-Louis de Villette and Edmund Burke
(Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen, 2016)
In his own time as much as in ours, the response to Francis Hutcheson’s
philosophy has concentrated above all on his contribution to moral thought,
especially the articulation of a so-called ‘moral sense’.1 The moral ...
Configuring Irishness through coaching films: Peil (1962) and Christy Ring (1964)
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-07-12)
The sports coaching film has a long history, dating from at least 1932 with the production of Paulette McDonagh s How I Play Cricket which featured the legendary Don Bradman. However, coaching films dedicated to indigenous ...
A networks-science investigation into the epic poems of Ossian
(WorldScientific Open Access, 2016-10-21)
In 1760 James Macpherson published the first volume of a series of epic poems which
he claimed to have translated into English from ancient Scottish-Gaelic sources.
The poems, which purported to have been composed by a ...
Sport and the 1916 Rising
(Teagasc, 2016)
This chapter considers the role of sport in the lives of participants in the 1916 Easter Rising.
Better by design: the art of theatre: Irish theatrescapes: new Irish plays, adapted European plays and Irish classics
(The Irish Times, 2016-01-23)
This work, as well as being beautifully illustrated, succeeds as a memoir, an anthology and as an outstanding act of theatre criticism, writes Patrick Lonergan.
The theatre of Marie Jones: telling stories from the ground up
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-11-11)
It’s sometimes asserted that Irish women writers are doubly marginalised: first by their nationality and then by their gender. If that statement is true, we might add to it that Marie Jones has been marginalised a third ...
Oenone and Colin Clout
(Edinburgh University Press, 2016-11)
Spenser's Shepheardes Calender was still a new work, not even yet publicly acknowledged by its author, when George Peele made the rather surprising decision to co-opt its central character and reanimate Colin Clout onstage ...
What's wrong with Medievalism: Tolkien, the Strugatsky brothers, and the question of the ideology of fantasy
(International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, 2016)
This article addresses the question of the ideology of medievalist fantasy genre through an analysis of Hard to Be a God (1963) by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky with references to J. R. R. Tolkien s The Lord of the Rings. ...