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Gaelic service kindreds and the landscape identity of Lucht Tighe
(Cork University Press, 2018-03-06)
This paper discusses the character of the lands of householders who served the courts of Gaelic lords in later medieval Ireland and how their association with those lands, which were mostly of early medieval royal origin, ...
Gaelic games and the films of John Ford
(Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2018-02-27)
This peer-reviewed chapter emerged further to ongoing research into the representations of Gaelic games in the cinema and is focused on films directed, or part-directed, by John Ford, in particular The Quiet Man (1952), ...
Imaginaries and practices: learning from ENERGISE about the integration of social sciences with the EU Energy Union
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018-08-24)
This chapter aims (1) to identify problematic framings relating to the integration of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research with the developing EU Energy Union and (2) to account for the practice of SSH-related ...
The Metastasio moment: language, music and translation
(Palermo University Press, 2018)
The production, circulation and reception of translations are deeply embedded in the historical circumstances of the society that chooses to translate such texts. According to Lawrence Venuti, changing interpretations of ...
The place-names of Co. Roscommon
(Geography Publications, 2018)
Roscommon is one of five counties comprising the province of Connacht, bounded to the west by the counties of Galway and Mayo, by Sligo and Leitrim at all points to the north, and by Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath to the ...
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 ...
Nuns writing: Translation, textual mobility and transnational networks
(Cambridge University Press, 2018-01)
Post-Reformation Catholic religious orders provided women with privileged, multi-layered
spaces for authorship, readership, and textual transmission. Exile and travel were imperative
for British and Irish women religious, ...
Performing pregnant: An aesthetic investigation of pregnancy
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018-02-17)
In this chapter, I explore how the aesthetics of pregnancy and childbirth offers a platform for exploring the pregnant body in the cultural consciousness by building on Iris Marion Young’s phenomenological understanding ...
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 ...
Writing before 1700
(Cambridge University Press, 2018-08)
[No abstract available]