Browsing School of English and Creative Arts by Author "Crosson, Seán"

Irish short films: essential indigenous productions

Crosson, Seán (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

Crosson, Seán (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.

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill: Reclaiming women's voice from song

Crosson, Seán (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

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 ...

The Quiet Man and Beyond: An Introduction

Crosson, Seán (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

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 ...

The sea of orality: An introduction to orality and modern Irish culture

Cronin, Nessa; Crosson, Seán; Eastlake, John (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

Crosson, Seán (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 ...

Sport and Christianity in American cinema ‘The beloved grew fat and kicked’ (Deuteronomy 32:15)

Crosson, Seán (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017-10-21)

Christianity has been an enduring feature of films featuring sports or sporting figures since the early twentieth century, such that religious icons, references and rituals have now become naturalised as familiar and ...

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.

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 ...

'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 ...