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“Blurring the main story”: news in the work of Ciaran Carson Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 James Costello O’Reilly
This article explores Ciaran Carson’s engagement with print and television news media. While critics have emphasised the news’s importance to Breaking News (2003), this article argues that the coll...
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The pasts, presents and futures of transnational and global Irish Studies: “Snapshots” Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Síobhra Aiken, Ciara Smart, Darragh Gannon, Rónán McDonald, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
As with any other discipline, we are periodically drawn towards reviewing the trajectory of Irish Studies, contemplating possible future directions: What is happening now? What should come next? Fo...
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“The camera got through safely”: photography and women’s memory activism after the Irish Civil War and Spanish Civil War Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Jessica McIvor
This article takes a comparative approach to gendered legacies of civil war and militant women’s post-war memory activism in Ireland and Spain, and highlights a shared practice of photographic memo...
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“Once it was Ireland, Now it is Kenya”: anti-colonialism and internationalism in the pages of the Connolly Association’s Irish Democrat in the 1950s–60s Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Evan Smith, Jimmy Wintermute
Irish Democrat was the paper of the Connolly Association, a diaspora organisation established to build support for Irish republicanism within the British labour movement. The Connolly Association a...
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“Acting on apartheid in a way that is consonant with the Irish people’s love of freedom”: anti-apartheid activism in Ireland, 1959–1994 Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Padraig Durnin
This article seeks to provide a broad overview of anti-apartheid activism in Ireland, in doing so, demonstrating that anti-apartheid activists in Ireland forged a distinct identity grounded in Irel...
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Transnational activism, solidarity and Ireland: an introduction Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Evan Smith, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, Jimmy Wintermute
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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Making empire: Ireland, imperialism, and the early modern world Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Mathieu Ferradou
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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Style over substance? The Blueshirts and transnational fascist culture Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Tim Ellis-Dale, Séan Donnelly
The central debate over the Blueshirt movement has centred on whether the movement can be classified as fascist. The two most significant accounts of Blueshirtism, by Maurice Manning (1971) and Mik...
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Modern Irish and Scottish literature Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Tara Stubbs
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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Seamus Heaney, Virgil and the good of poetry Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-23 Iain Twiddy
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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“She is finally home”: feminist storytelling, family imaginaries and transnational solidarity in Irish abortion activism Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, Katie Barclay
Across the so-called West, feminist storytelling positions reproductive justice and the often-twinned issue of women’s place within the family as a progressive issue. This conveniently ignores the ...
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Black abolitionists in Ireland Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Julia McGrath
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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Douglas Hyde: Irish ideology and international impact Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Michael McAteer
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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Wilde in the dream factory Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Neil Sammells
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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Say Nope to the Pope: performance and resistance in the creative interventions during the 2018 papal visit to Ireland Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Kate Antosik-Parsons
In September 1979, the newly elected head of the Catholic Church, Pope John Paul II, made a historic pastoral visit to Ireland where he celebrated an open-air mass in Dublin’s Phoenix Park to an es...
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Plays by women in Ireland (1926–33): feminist theatres of freedom and resistance Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Susan Mooney
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Art and sustenance in the work of Sara Baume Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Ondřej Pilný
The question of what role literature and art may play has become all the more urgent amidst the present intersectional crisis. This article discusses the oeuvre of author and visual artist Sara Bau...
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Irish dance and identity politics on TikTok Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Eleanor O’Leary
During the COVID-19 pandemic TikTok became a vibrant virtual space to circulate dance performances and challenges when other forms of movement were heavily restricted. A new generation of Irish dan...
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The formation of a writer: an interview with Elaine Feeney Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Helen Cullen
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Irish artisans and radical politics, 1776–1820: apprenticeship to revolution Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Kaitlin Thurlow
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Northern Ireland, the United States and the Second World War Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Órla Fitzpatrick
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Unfeminine women and angry men: the Irish Post Office in 1902–1918 Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Jin Kyung Jang
The Post Office was the United Kingdom’s single largest employer and possessed the majority of female workers in the Civil Service before the First World War. This article concentrates on the self-...
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The Irish Revival: a complex vision Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Richard Jones
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Roscommon: the Irish revolution, 1912–23 Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Luca Bertolani Azeredo
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Becoming an Irish traditional musician: learning and embodying musical culture Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Daithí Kearney
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Narratives of the unspoken in contemporary Irish fiction: silences that speak Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Aran Ward Sell
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Wilde Now: performance, celebrity and intermediality in Oscar Wilde Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Graham Price
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Revisiting Brian Friel’s Translations through the lens of stage director Caitríona McLaughlin Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Maria Gaviña-Costero
Brian Friel’s play Translations (1980), set in a 19th-century hedge school on the west coast of Ireland, chronicles the beginning of the decline of the Irish language. Since its premiere in Derry w...
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Parody and performance: Paul Muldoon’s subversive pastoral Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Stephanie Alexander
Although a pastoral strand runs continuously throughout Muldoon’s work, he is infrequently characterised as a pastoral poet. However, ignoring the pastoral in Muldoon’s work is to ignore the very p...
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Sport, migration and national identity in contemporary Irish media Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Marcus Free
Taking a “cultural studies” approach that focuses on the ways in which media negotiate the intersections of nation, race and ethnicity, this article examines Irish print and broadcast media discour...
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Subjects of tradition: cultural construction and Irish comprador capitalism Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Marta Cook
On the weekend of the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Irish Consulate in Chicago memorialised a different occasion: the 86th anniversary of the death of Francis O’Neill (1848–1936), a Cork-b...
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From toxic industries to green extractivism: rural environmental struggles, multinational corporations and Ireland’s postcolonial ecological regime Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Patrick Bresnihan, Patrick Brodie
This article articulates the historical entanglement of Ireland’s big tech ecosystem with earlier forms of economic development and state-sanctioned polluting practices, particularly focusing on st...
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“The business of being a [twenty-first century] Rose”: racial capitalism in the Rose of Tralee pageant Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Samantha R. Haddad
Since 1959, the Rose of Tralee International Festival has invited women of Irish ancestry to compete in Tralee, Co. Kerry for the title of the Rose of Tralee, an honour granted to women prepared to...
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Belfast punk and the troubles: an oral history Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Roseanna Doughty
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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The Catholic Church and investor capitalism in late-nineteenth century Ireland Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Sarah Roddy, Patrick Doyle
The Catholic Church embarked upon an ambitious project of property development in the nineteenth century that transformed the Irish built environment and landscape. People responded energetically t...
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Imperial translators: Hiberno-Spaniards, the Bourbon reforms and political economy Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Michael Bailey
This article explains how 18th century Irish exiles in the Spanish Empire utilised a skill at imperial translation to promote the emulation of capitalistic British imperial policies. Focusing on th...
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Post-catastrophic Irelands in contemporary fiction Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Aran Ward Sell
This article examines the relationship between neoliberal late capitalism and the climate crisis in Irish writing. It focuses on the imagined post-climate change Ireland of Danny Denton’s novel The...
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Hardy peasants, passive landlords: translating difference into agrarian capitalism Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Laura Tavolacci
This article explores changes in British liberal thought during the second half of the nineteenth century by investigating the work of Sir George Campbell, a Scottish MP and long-term colonial offi...
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Form, affect and debt in Post-Celtic Tiger Irish fiction: Ireland in crisis Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Sophie Anders
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Samuel Beckett and catastrophe Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Katherine Weiss
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Capitalism and Irish studies Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Aidan Beatty, Conor McCabe
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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H Blocks: an architecture of the conflict in and about Northern Ireland Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Stephen Hopkins
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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No foreign game: association football in the making of Irish identities Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Brian Griffin
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Performing social change on the island of Ireland: from republic to pandemic Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Zsuzsanna Balázs
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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James Joyce and Samaritan hospitality: postcritical and postsecular reading in Dubliners and Ulysses Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Nicholas Taylor-Collins
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Irish ex-servicemen, post-war reconstruction and the Empire Settlement Act Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Fearghal Grace
This essay considers Irish participation in schemes for empire settlement, and its place in broader visions for reconstruction based on wartime promises and pledges. With Southern Irish independenc...
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“We know nothing except through style”: John Banville’s worldliness Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Allan Hepburn
John Banville identifies style as an attribute of world literature. As a novelist, he admires authors who make wit, word play, linguistic theatricality and virtuosity literary ends in themselves. I...
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“Not with a bang but a whimper”: uncovering pandemic strains in Flann O’Brien’s later works Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Maebh Long
During the 1950s and 1960s influenza was a recurring theme in the Cruiskeen Lawn, a satirical column by Myles na Copaleen (Flann O’Brien) in The Irish Times. The columns’ engagement arose from Irel...
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Dancing enriched whiteness: race and gender in commercial Irish dance performance from Riverdance to the Trump Inaugural Ball Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Kathryn Holt
In January 2017, Michael Flatley introduced male members of the cast of Lord of the Dance performing at President Donald Trump’s Inaugural Ball. Flatley’s decision for the cast to perform at the In...
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Irish English and Irish Studies: exploring language use and identity through fictional constructions of laddism Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Cassandra S. Tully, Anne Barron, Carolina P. Amador-Moreno
The construction of a linguistic collective identity uses a pool of conscious and unconscious elements that deal with age, gender, or ethnic belonging. In the Irish communicative system, one presen...
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Supporting parents with young children in Ireland: context, policies and research-supported interventions Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Catarina Leitão
Providing support to parents in the early years can enhance their engagement in children’s lives. In Ireland, research on parenting support has been limited, highlighting the relevance of reviewing...
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“A thing breaks beyond naming”: a review article on David Lloyd’s 2022 books, Counterpoetics of Modernity and The Harm Fields Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2023)
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The Siege of Londonderry Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Andrew Robinson
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2023)
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Canadian spy story: Irish revolutionaries and the secret police Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Francis M. Caroll
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2023)
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A history of Irish literature and the environment Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Patrick Lonergan
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2023)
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Noraid and the Northern Ireland troubles, 1970–1994 Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Ashley M. Morin
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2023)
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Law and literature: the Irish case Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Danny Shanahan
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2023)
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Lost and found in the archives: Hannah Lynch and Dimitrios Vikélas Dublin, Athens, Paris: literary crossings and collaborations Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Kathryn Laing, Iliana Theodoropoulou
This essay illuminates a late nineteenth-century literary connection between Ireland and Greece, also revealing hitherto unexplored layers of the vibrant fin-de-siècle salon cultures in Paris and r...
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Dreams of the future in nineteenth century Ireland Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Stan Erraught
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2023)
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Haunted Heaney: Spectres and the Poetry Irish Studies Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-13 Stephen Grace
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2023)