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1916 and Irish literature, culture and society: an introduction
Crosson, Seán (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015)1916 marked an important moment in the development of modern Ireland. The continuing resonance of the Republican Rising that took place in that year was evident in the now much quoted editorial of The Irish Times (18 Nov ... -
Alexander Kluge: Utopian Cinema
Stoneman, Rod (Rodopi, 2007-10-01)Alexander Kluge's films, television programmes and his other diverse activities contribute to a developed understanding of contemporary politics and culture. He took a version of creative critical theory into spheres of ... -
Anticipating a postnationalist Ireland: representing Gaelic Games in Rocky Road to Dublin (1968) and Clash of the Ash (1987)
Crosson, Seán (Peter Lang, 2010)This article charts the movement towards what might be called, following from Richard Kearney’s 1995 book, a post-nationalist approach to representing gaelic games in film, particularly since the late 1960s through an ... -
"Ar son an Naisiuin": The National Film Institute of Ireland's All-Ireland Films
Crosson, Seán (Irish-American Cultural Institute, 2013)On 4 September 1948 the Irish Independent newspaper carried a small announcement on page ten indicating that the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) had authorized the filming of the All-Ireland hurling and football finals ... -
Configuring Irishness through coaching films: Peil (1962) and Christy Ring (1964)
Crosson, Seán (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 ... -
'Croke Park goes Plumb Crazy' Gaelic Games in Pathé Newsreels, 1920–1939
Crosson, Seán; McAnallen, Dónal (Taylor and Francis, 2011)From the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922, and over the next two decades, arose great efforts in Ireland to augment political independence from Britain with enhanced cultural separation. During this period the ... -
Defining the heathen Irish and the pagan African: two similar discourses a century apart
Bateman, Fiona (2008)This article looks at two different missionary projects separated by space and time: British Protestant missions to Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century; and Irish Roman Catholic missions to Africa in the 1920 and 1930s. ... -
“For the honour of old Knock-na-gow I must win”: Representing Sport in Knocknagow (1918)
Crosson, Seán (2012)Knocknagow (1918) has a special significance for followers of sport in Ireland.[1] Most immediately, it contains one of the earliest surviving depictions of hurling on film—and hurling’s earliest depiction in a fiction ... -
Girl chewing gum: the time that cinema forgot
Stoneman, Rod (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 ... -
Global Interchange: The Same but Different
Stoneman, Rod (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 ... -
‘Introduction’ In: Crisis and Contemporary Poetry
Karhio, Anne; Crosson, Seán; Armstrong, Charles I. (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
Bateman, Fiona (Cambria Press, 2012)[No abstract available] -
An Irish Missionary in India: Thomas Gavan Duffy and the Catechist of Kil-Arni
Bateman, Fiona (Irish Academic Press, 2006)[No abstract available] -
A May Day Manifesto
Stoneman, Rod (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 -
Reimagining an Irish City: I am Belfast
Crosson, Seán (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. ... -
Soft and Hard: Indications Intimations Implications
Stoneman, Rod (Editions du Centre Pompidou, 2006)"At a time when television was extending its bravery and its boundaries, when it offered creative space for the world¿s film-makers, when a cinema of ideas was still possible..." -
Sport and the 1916 Rising
Crosson, Seán (Teagasc, 2016)This chapter considers the role of sport in the lives of participants in the 1916 Easter Rising. -
The Theory of Film Practice: Thirty Years Later
Stoneman, Rod (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013)Jean-Luc Godard prefaced his exhibition Voyages en utopie with the explanation that it was an intimate voyage that is permeable to the world s upheavals; it is from the tension between these two poles: autobiographical ...