Browsing School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures by Type "Book chapter"
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The aging contemporary: Aging families and generational connections in Irish writing
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-09)In a youth-driven society such as Ireland, older adults may well find themselves marginalized by institutionalized ageism and figured as outsiders in the cultural imagination. Rather than static concepts of age, however, ... -
Audiovisual translation in language teaching and learning
(Routledge, 2018-09-06)This chapter explores the use of AVT in language teaching and learning. It begins with a historical overview exploring the benefits of presenting language students with subtitled video material, and experimenting with ... -
Beochan an bhéaloidis: an scannánaíocht, foirm na beochana agus an traidisiún béil
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Bumping into classroom walls: How to win the timed race of language learning in the university classroom
(Peter LangAuthor’s accepted manuscript (AAM), not the definitive, published version of record of the chapter. “All rights reserved.”, 2014)Departing from student-led evaluations of Spanish classrooms in a university in Canada a few years ago, this chapter focuses on the conditions that space and time impose on our contemporary university classrooms. In ... -
Cailís mo chuid fola/ the chalice of my blood: stigmatized female identity in Celia de Fréine’s Fiacha Fola
(Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra/Coimbra University Press, 2017)Discussion of Celia de Fréine's poetry collection 'Fiacha Fola' (2005) about the Hepatitis C scandal -
Ceol agus amhránaíocht
(Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann (Four Courts), 2013)Discussion of transmission and performance of traditional song. -
An comhrá síoraí: cothú agus athnuachan na hamhránaíochta i Maigh Eo
(Geography, Publications, 2014)A discussion of recorded sound archives from County Mayo, and strategies for the revitalisation of traditional song in the county. -
Conceptualising successful intergenerational transmission in terms of saibhreas: Family language support in the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht
(Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2022-04-14)This chapter proposes the saibhreas model (‘richness’ in Irish) as a means to explore caregivers’ goals in intergenerational language transmission. The chapter argues that although the field of Family Language Policy (‘FLP’) ... -
An Crann
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The cult of St Moling and Buile Shuibhne
(Irish Texts Society / Cumann na Scríbheann nGaedhilge, 2013)[No abstract aviailable] -
Das Mühlviertel und Connemara - Richard Wall zum Thema zweier mutierender Landschaftsräume
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Death and how to deal with it in the Harry Potter series
(Routledge, 2019-08-29)It is obvious that death is one of the main issues in the Harry Potter world and the way it is underlined throughout the series opens up the ground for discussion of one of the most taboo topics in Western culture amongst ... -
'Do Sheans': Children's agency in integrating Scottish Gaelic and Irish into 'Happy Families'
(Cló Léann na Gaeilge, 2023-03-16)[No abstract] -
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 ... -
"Embarking, Not Dying": Clare Boylan's Beloved Stranger as Reifungsroman
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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’ ...