Browsing College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies by Author "O'Connor, Anne"
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Beyond the four walls: community based learning and languages
O'Connor, Anne (Taylor & Francis, 2011-09-20)At a time when languages in universities are under pressure, community-based learning language courses can have many positive benefits: they can increase interest in language learning, they can foster greater engagement ... -
Dante Alighieri from absence to stony presence: building memories in nineteenth-century Florence
O'Connor, Anne (Taylor & Francis, 2013-10-12)The Dante narrative is one of the key narratives of nineteenth-century Italy in the self-fashioning of Italian patriotism. This article looks at the momentum behind the project to commemorate Dante in Florence in the early ... -
An Italian inferno in Ireland: Alessandro Gavazzi and religious debate in the nineteenth century
O'Connor, Anne (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)Alessandro Gavazzi (1809-1889), the ‘warrior-priest’1 is a well-known figure in the history of the Risorgimento, famed for his patriotic oratory, his tireless support of the Italian nationalist cause, and – after Pope ... -
The Italian Risorgimento and the Irish Papal Brigade
O'Connor, Anne (University College Dublin Press, 2013-12-03)In 1847, with the news of Daniel O’Connell’s death in Genoa, Italians responded with an outpouring of tributes to the Irishman. Hailed for his leadership qualities, Italians sympathised with the Irish over the loss of ... -
Language and migration in Ireland
O'Connor, Anne; Ciribuco, Andrea; Naughton, Anita (Immigrant Council of Ireland, 2017)This report looks at the linguistic landscape in Ireland in 2017, using the words of migrants to describe their experiences in a changing and multilingual context. According to the 2016 Census, 612,018 people in Ireland ... -
The languages of transnationalism: translation, training, and transfer
O'Connor, Anne (Irish American Cultural Institute, 2016-02-01)In the flows and connections that are central to transnational studies, language is a conduit that facilitates transfers; it allows for the movement of ideas and people across national and linguistic boundaries. In the ... -
Letters to Italy: translation and religion in nineteenth-century Ireland
O'Connor, Anne (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)The analysis of translation activity in particular societies and contexts can often focus on published texts and literary works. In nineteenth-century Ireland, such an approach would only capture a proportion of translation ... -
The Metastasio moment: language, music and translation
O'Connor, Anne (Palermo University Press, 2018)The production, circulation and reception of translations are deeply embedded in the historical circumstances of the society that chooses to translate such texts. According to Lawrence Venuti, changing interpretations of ... -
Petrarch goes west: translation and the literary canon
Hodder, Mike; O'Connor, Anne (Taylor & Francis, 2017-09-08)This article addresses the translation of Petrarch's work on the Western fringes of Europe demonstrating how the appropriation and transformation of the European literary canon served domestic ends in Ireland in the ... -
That dangerous serpent: Garibaldi and Ireland 1860 - 1870
O'Connor, Anne (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2010-09-28)This article analyses the reaction to Garibaldi in Ireland during the Risorgimento, a reaction which, in its negativity, generally contrasted with the Italian's heroic depiction elsewhere. Attitudes towards Garibaldi ... -
Translating the Vatican: Paul Cullen, power and language in nineteenth-century Ireland
O'Connor, Anne (Taylor & Francis, 2014-09-29)This paper examines how one of the most influential figures in nineteenth-century Ireland, Cardinal Paul Cullen, used language and translation to further his career and his vision for the Catholic Church in this period. ... -
Travel literature and traveling Irishness: An Italian case study
O'Connor, Anne (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)This chapter looks at the important societal, cultural, and historical issues relating to Irish travel to Europe in the nineteenth century. Using the case study of Julia Kavanagh’s travel book on Italy, A Summer and Winter ... -
Triumphant failure: the return of the Irish Papal Brigade
O'Connor, Anne (Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, 2009)In early 1860, Italian unification was gaining momentum and Pope Pius IX, the temporal ruler of large parts of central Italy, feared an invasion of his extensive territories by the troops of Victor Emanuel of Piedmont ... -
A voyage into Catholicism: Irish travel to Italy in the nineteenth century
O'Connor, Anne (Taylor & Francis, 2016-05-19)The analysis of travel writing and Italy has often focused on the beauty, the history and the heritage of the country; this essay argues that religion was a key element in depictions of the country and that this was ... -
War, virtue and mobilization in the Risorgimento: Massimo d’Azeglio’s Niccolò de’ Lapi
O'Connor, Anne (Firenze University Press, 2015)[No abstract available]