Browsing Huston School of Film and Digital Media by Issue Date
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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 ... -
Vanishing Point: An Examination of Some Consequences of Globalization for Contemporary Irish Film
(2003)In the following article, some films produced with the support of Bord Scannán na hÉireann (The Irish Film Board) since its reconstitution in 1993 are examined in light of the work of global anthropologist Arjun Appadurai ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
An Irish Missionary in India: Thomas Gavan Duffy and the Catechist of Kil-Arni
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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 ... -
Soft and Hard: Indications Intimations Implications
(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..." -
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). -
Alexander Kluge: Utopian Cinema
(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 ... -
Defining the heathen Irish and the pagan African: two similar discourses a century apart
(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. ... -
"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. ... -
'They can't wipe us out, they can't lick us. We'll go on forever pa, because we're the people' - Misrepresenting death in Jim Sheridan's In America (2003)
(2008)This paper will examine the recurring theme of death in Jim Sheridan's work, with particular focus on his 2003 film In America. This theme also links Sheridan's work to one of his favourite directors, John Ford, whose ... -
Traditional music and song and the poetry of Thomas Kinsella
(Nordic Irish Studies, 2008)Music and song are both important influences on, and themes in, the poetry of Thomas Kinsella. His poetry also features several individuals associated with music, none more frequently than his close friend, the composer ... -
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. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Shillalah Swing Time ...You'll thrill each time a wild Irishman s skull shatters : Representing Hurling in American Cinema: 1930-1960
(Irish Academic Press, 2009)While significant research has been done over the past twenty years on the important role Gaelic games and their promotion played in the construction and development of Irish nationalism and Irish identity, particularly ... -
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 ... -
Chance and Change
(2010)