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“The business of being a [twenty-first century] Rose”: racial capitalism in the Rose of Tralee pageant Irish Studies Review 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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From toxic industries to green extractivism: rural environmental struggles, multinational corporations and Ireland’s postcolonial ecological regime Irish Studies Review 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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Belfast punk and the troubles: an oral history Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Roseanna Doughty
Published in Irish Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Catholic Church and investor capitalism in late-nineteenth century Ireland Irish Studies Review 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 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 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 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 Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Sophie Anders
Published in Irish Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Samuel Beckett and catastrophe Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Katherine Weiss
Published in Irish Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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H Blocks: an architecture of the conflict in and about Northern Ireland Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Stephen Hopkins
Published in Irish Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Capitalism and Irish studies Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Aidan Beatty, Conor McCabe
Published in Irish Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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No foreign game: association football in the making of Irish identities Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Brian Griffin
Published in Irish Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Performing social change on the island of Ireland: from republic to pandemic Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Zsuzsanna Balázs
Published in Irish Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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James Joyce and Samaritan hospitality: postcritical and postsecular reading in Dubliners and Ulysses Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Nicholas Taylor-Collins
Published in Irish Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Irish ex-servicemen, post-war reconstruction and the Empire Settlement Act Irish Studies Review 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Pub Date : 2023-08-13 Stephen Grace
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2023)
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The rise of the phoenix: restoration and renaissance in contemporary Irish writing Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Eoghan Smith, Simon Workman
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2023)
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A woman’s place? Challenging values in 1960s Irish women’s magazines Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Yen-Chi Wu
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2023)
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“A gathering of possibilities”: anthologisation and contemporary short fiction Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Paul Delaney
ABSTRACT This essay engages with the practice of anthologisation in contemporary Irish short fiction. It takes as its starting point Sinéad Gleeson’s remark in The Art of the Glimpse (2020) that the anthology is a potentially generous art form since it constitutes “a gift” or “a gathering of possibilities” for the unsuspecting reader. The essay extends out from Gleeson’s suggestive analogy to examine
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“Stories last a long time after you go”: female solidarity in Emma Donoghue’s The Pull of the Stars and Elaine Feeney’s As You Were Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Selen Aktari-Sevgi
ABSTRACT This article explores Emma Donoghue’s The Pull of the Stars (2020) and Elaine Feeney’s As You Were (2020) within the context of the Celtic Phoenix (2013–the present) particularly in relation to the political discourses of recovery from the Great Recession (2008–2013), recently carried out national referendums, constitutional changes, the reports on the systemic abuse in Magdalene Laundries
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Neil Jordan: works for the page Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Eamon Maher
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2023)
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Space and Irish lesbian fiction: towards a queer liminality Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Lucy Cullen
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2023)
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The new Joyce studies Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Michael Gillingham
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2023)
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Race, politics, and Irish America: a Gothic history Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Sinéad Moynihan
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2023)
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Art history at the crossroads of Ireland and the United States Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Lauren Clark
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2023)
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Soccer and society in Dublin: a history of association football in Ireland’s capital Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Brian Griffin
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2023)
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Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean: interdisciplinary perspectives Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Ellen Howley
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2023)
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Dis-orienting Orientalism in contemporary Irish writing: Yan Ge’s Irish short stories Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Moonyoung Hong
ABSTRACT This article examines representations of Asia and Asian characters in contemporary Irish writing, drawing on the discourse on Orientalism and other postcolonial theories. Orientalism in Irish studies has undergone multiple phases: from the Celtic-Oriental ties that stressed cross-colonial identification with Eastern countries as a way to bolster nationalist narratives during the Celtic Revival
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“On the edge of foreign”: race and (non-)belonging in contemporary Irish crime fiction Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Kersti Tarien Powell
ABSTRACT Using Andrew Nugent’s Second Burial (2007) to exemplify the Celtic Tiger era crime fiction, this article compares Second Burial to two recent Celtic Phoenix era crime novels: Tana French’s The Trespasser (2016) and Brian O’Connor’s Bloodline (2017). In doing so, I show how Irish crime authors forge a complicated path from the isolated token immigrant figure to a more nuanced portrayal of belonging
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“The sick body has its own narrative impulse”: contemporary Irish illness narratives and institutions of care Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Bridget English
ABSTRACT The perceived social liberalisation of Irish culture over the past ten years has significantly impacted Irish writing, resulting in discussions of formerly tabooed topics like psychosis, menstruation, and infertility. This shift is particularly evident in the recent rise in public interest in creative non-fiction writing. This article examines the rise in popularity of illness narratives:
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To Ireland in the end times: figuring the future in contemporary Irish fiction Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Simon Workman
ABSTRACT This article examines a new strand of speculative Irish fiction that has emerged in the post-Celtic Tiger era. Focusing on novels by Kevin Barry, Sarah Davis-Goff, Catherine Prasifka and Danny Denton, I analyse how the speculative mode, with its ontological obliquities and temporal distortions, is particularly commensurate to the environmental and socio-economic complexities and predicaments
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The Celtic Phoenix, capitalist realism, and contemporary Irish women’s novels Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Orlaith Darling
ABSTRACT In this article, I analyse the literary realism of four women novelists in the context of the Celtic Phoenix. While realism has always been closely associated with capitalism as a genre and form, a neo-modernist turn emerged in Irish fiction writing in the years following 2012. This has been analysed in terms of a formal reaction to or against the capitalist realism of austerity policies.
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Even better than the real thing: a conceptual history of the “Celtic Phoenix” Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Aran Ward Sell
ABSTRACT This article chronicles the history of the phrase “Celtic Phoenix.” It began in sincere right-wing Celtic Tiger revivalism, but was popularised instead in a satirical mode, through Paul Howard’s parodic upper-class Dublin persona “Ross O’Carroll-Kelly.” In Howard’s play Breaking Dad (2014), a fascistic character exults that “Oh, the Celtic Tiger was a wonderful thing […] But the Celtic Phoenix
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Remembering otherwise: media memory, gender and Margaret Thatcher in Irish hunger strike films Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Raita Merivirta
ABSTRACT This article analyses two films about the Irish republican prison protests and the hunger strikes of 1981 – Terry George’s Some Mother’s Son (1996) and Steve McQueen’s Hunger (2008) – as countermemories of the dominant British media coverage of the protests and the hunger strikes. Focusing on the use of the voice/image of British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in these films, the article
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'People who get up early in the morning': Irish political capital and the resonances of Iarnród Enda (2021) Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Eoin Ó Gaora
ABSTRACT This article considers, contrasts and compares the images of three of Ireland’s Taoisigh – Brian Cowen, Enda Kenny, and Leo Varadkar – by situating each Taoiseach along an axis of consumption, stretching from austerity on one hand, to overconsumption on the other. In particular, the popular image of Varadkar is carefully explored, charting how artefacts such as Instagram photos of carefully
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Contemporary Irish poetry and the climate crisis Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2023)
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Ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Conor Fitzgerald
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2023)
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The Irish media and the foundation of the Irish State on 6 December 1922 Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Thomas Mohr
ABSTRACT This article examines the importance of 6 December 1922 as the foundation date of the Irish State. It does so through analysis of the reaction of contemporary media to events on that date and the days that surrounded it. The importance of this date is highlighted by its inseparable connection with three major themes in the history of the early years of the Irish State – the Civil War, partition
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Covid-19, cultural policy and the Irish arts sector: continuum or conjuncture? Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Ruth Barton, Steven Hadley, Denis Murphy
ABSTRACT One of the sectors most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, in Ireland as elsewhere, was the subsidised arts sector. In this article we examine one key aspect of this situation: the supports for artists. Specifically, we consider whether these supports are consistent with pre-pandemic policies in Ireland. We offer an overview of both the impact and responses to COVID-19 on the sector, and the
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On docile bodies: silence, control and surveillance as self-imposed disciplines in Anna Burns’ Milkman Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Marisol Morales-Ladrón
ABSTRACT Anna Burns, the first Northern-Irish woman to have been awarded the Booker Prize for her novel Milkman in 2018 has been celebrated since then as a lucid and necessary voice in the contemporary panorama. Set in an unknown location in Northern Ireland, at a time when the Troubles were at its peak, the narrative defiantly targets at what appears to be sexual harassment, to further disclose layers
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Theatre and archival memory: Irish drama and marginalised histories 1951–1977 Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Graham Price
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2023)
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Diasporic subjects: migrant identities and twentieth-century Ireland Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Jack Hepworth
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2023)
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“The age-old struggle”: Irish republicanism from the battle of the Bogside to the Belfast agreement, 1969–1998 Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Stephen Hopkins
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2023)
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A history of Irish women’s poetry Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-04-02 Rosanne Gallenne
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2023)
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Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday: lost futures and new horizons in the “long peace” Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Marie Gemrichova
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2023)
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Broken Irelands: literary form in post-crash Irish fiction Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Orlaith Darling
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2023)
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Rabindranath Tagore and James Henry Cousins: a conversation in letters, 1915–1940 Irish Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Lauren Clark
Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2023)