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From Kings to Cáca Mílis: Irish film and television as Gaeilge in 2007
(2007)A review of recent trends in Irish language television and film, including a consideration of the films Cré na Cille (Graveyard Clay) (2007), Kings (2007) and the TV series "Paddywhackery" (2007) and "The Running Mate" (2007). -
Gaelic Games and 'the Movies'
(Irish Academic Press, 2009)From the earliest days of the cinema, sport was one of the most popular subjects of representation. Unsurprisingly, when film arrived in Ireland, Irish sport, including gaelic games, would soon feature. Gaelic games were ... -
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), ... -
Girl chewing gum: the time that cinema forgot
(Intellect / Ingenta Connect, 2012-02)John Smith's Girl Chewing Gum was made in Hackney, East London and shown at the London Film-Makers' Co-op in 1976. Through its wit and imagination this film extended the forms of British avant-garde experimentation that ... -
The Given Note traditional music, crisis and the poetry of Seamus Heaney
(Palgrave, 2011)This paper proposes that at a time when Northern Ireland increasingly descended into civil strife and crisis, Seamus Heaney looked to landscape, and to a lesser but comparable, extent traditional music, to articulate a ... -
"The Given Note": traditional music and modern Irish poetry
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008)"The oldest records indicate that the performance of poetry in Gaelic Ireland was normally accompanied by music, providing a point of continuity with past tradition while bolstering a sense of community in the present. ... -
Global Interchange: The Same but Different
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013-08)Praxis is a productive basis for international interchange the diversity and pluralism of critical practice offers an implicit challenge to dominant models. The replication of versions of academic tunnel vision is too ... -
Horror, hurling, and Bertie: aspects of contemporary Irish horror cinema
(University of Waterloo, Department of Fine Arts (Film Studies), 2012)In Ireland, generic international cinematic forms have provided an important means through which filmmakers have attempted to tell Irish stories while engaging international audiences. However, in general Irish filmmakers ... -
“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 ...