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    • Performance and music in the poetry of Ciaran Carson 

      Crosson, Seán (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 ...
    • 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. ...
    • Review of "Hunger" 

      Crosson, Seán (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) 

      Crosson, Seán (2006)
      Review of an innovative film, shot on mini-DV in a pseudo documentary style, featuring an Irish Traveller family.
    • Review of "Six Shooter" 

      Crosson, Seán (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 ...
    • Speaking Directly 

      Stoneman, Rod (2010)
    • Sport and the media in Ireland: an introduction 

      Crosson, Seán; Dine, Philip (Taylor and Francis, 2011)
      [Introduction to Media History Special Issue on Sport and the Media in Ireland]. The symbiotic relationship that has existed since the mid-nineteenth century between sport and the media - from the popular press, through ...
    • Sport, representation, and the commemoration of the 1916 Rising: a new Ireland rises? 

      Crosson, Seán (European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS), the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies (RIISS) in Aberdeen, and the University of Leuven, 2018-10-24)
      Commemoration is part of what defines nations and their configurations; the considerable investment of the Irish state (and various sporting organisations) during 2016 in 1916 commemorations speaks to the importance of ...
    • 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 ...
    • '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) 

      Crosson, Seán (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 

      Crosson, Seán (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 ...
    • Vanishing Point: An Examination of Some Consequences of Globalization for Contemporary Irish Film 

      Crosson, Seán (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 ...