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“If Irish cinema is going to be really great it has to stop worrying too much about being ‘Irish cinema’”: Q & A with Lenny Abrahamson and Mark O’Halloran
(Braumüller, 2011)Director Lenny Abrahamson and screenwriter and actor Mark O'Halloran have established a formidable partnership in recent years that has produced some of the most distinctive and celebrated work to emerge in Irish cinema. ... -
Impossible totalities: Political performance as palimpsest
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‘Introduction’ In: Crisis and Contemporary Poetry
(Palgrave, 2011)This collection of essays addresses poetic and critical responses to the various crises encountered by contemporary writers and our society. The essays included discuss a range of issues from the holocaust, the Troubles ... -
Ireland and Biafra: hunger, history, politics and public opinion
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Irish intolerance: exploring its roots in Irish cinema
(Braumüller, 2011)This article examines the depiction of intolerance in Irish film just before and during the Celtic Tiger period itself, usually associated with the years 1995–2007. In particular, the paper is concerned with exploring how ... -
An Irish Missionary in India: Thomas Gavan Duffy and the Catechist of Kil-Arni
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Irish short films: essential indigenous productions
(ROPES: Review Of Postgraduate Studies, 1995)Since the emergence of an Irish cinema of national questioning in the mid-1970s, short films have played an important role in Irish film culture. Not only did they offer Irish filmmakers an opportunity to learn their trade ... -
Irish Studies in continental Europe today and its potential
(EFACIS European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies IZWV, 2018)This report provides an overview and analysis of the place and potential of Irish Studies in Continental Europe. -
Locative reverb: Artistic practice, sound technology, and the grammatization of the listener in the city
(Springer International Publishing, 2021)There are various ways that artists use technology in exploring the relation of sound to the urban environment, which has different impacts on the listener in relation to place. The rising prominence of these works is ... -
A May Day Manifesto
(2010)"A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at..." - Oscar Wilde,The Soul of man under socialism, 1891 -
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill: Reclaiming women's voice from song
(University of Sunderland Press, 2005)Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Irish literature. Her work, drawing on Irish mythology, folklore and orature has also attracted considerable international acclaim and has been ... -
Performance and music in the poetry of Ciaran Carson
(Nordic Irish Studies, 2004)Ciaran Carson has established a reputation as one of Ireland's most important poetic voices. However, Carson is also an accomplished musician whose work reflects the liminal borderland that has always existed between Irish ... -
Performances of situated knowledge in the ageing female body
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017-11-25)Kathleen Woodward describes how the ageing female body is both hyper-visible and invisible: mass media representations tend to regulate expectations for how women are to behave as they age while rendering them obsolete and ... -
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 ... -
The Quiet Man and Beyond: An Introduction
(Liffey Press, 2009)In 1996, The Quiet Man topped an Irish Times poll for the best Irish film of all time. Almost ten years later, with many more Irish (and Irish-themed) films made, The Quiet Man still occupied number four in a poll of 10,000 ... -
Reimagining an Irish City: I am Belfast
(Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses, Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI), 2017-03)An early shot in Mark Cousin's I am Belfast lingers on a very unusual and unexpected landscape, what appears to be an icy vista reflected in water, with clouds drifting by in the distance. Where s this our narrator asks. ... -
Review of "Hunger"
(2008)Review of Steve McQueen's 2008 British-Irish historical drama film Hunger, starring Michael Fassbender (as Republican leader Bobby Sands), Liam Cunningham, and Liam McMahon. The film is concerned with the 1981 Irish hunger strike. -
Review of "Pavee Lackeen" (2005)
(2006)Review of an innovative film, shot on mini-DV in a pseudo documentary style, featuring an Irish Traveller family. -
Review of "Six Shooter"
(2006)Review of one of the most provocative Irish short films in recent years, a work that manages not just to reference acclaimed playwright and director Martin McDonagh’s major influences but also provides a commentary on ... -
The sea of orality: An introduction to orality and modern Irish culture
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009)[Introduction to the collection Anáil an Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009)] While the connections between oral and textual traditions in Ireland have been the focus of much ...