Estudios Irlandeses - Journal of Irish Studies articles from January 1 2006

Estudios Irlandeses - Journal of Irish Studies archives from January 1 2006

The Times and the Northern Ireland Conflict
January 1, 2006... Abstract: In societies in conflict the role of the media is supposed to be neutral and to report conflicts fairly and with balanced analyses. By their public debates on conflicts they are also supposed to take part in pacifying societies and in...

Intertextual Re-Creation in Jamie O'Neill's "At Swim, Two Boys"
January 1, 2006... Abstract: As the title of the book indicates, Jamie O'Neill's At Swim, Two Boys, published in 2001, refers back to Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds (1939). Through the use of such a parodic title, O'Neill places himself within a postmodern...

Tradition and the (Re)writing of Poetry in Roman Script by Derek Mahon
January 1, 2006... Abstract: This paper aims at showing in what way artistic and historical traditions constitute for Derek Mahon a fundamental element of poetic writing, which is perhaps only a form of rewriting. Our purpose will follow three main lines: first...

Introduction
January 1, 2006... December 2005 On being invited to contribute to Estudios Irlandeses with a reflection on film and television output in the year gone past, I felt that, rather than authoring a single overview, it would be useful to invite colleagues in...

Irish Film 2005: An Industry in Crises?
January 1, 2006... "Ireland has a lot to offer incoming film producers, quite apart from our tax incentives. Our locations are excellent. Our country is safe and welcoming to visitors. We speak English... We have quite low levels of bureaucracy,...

Boy Eats Girl
January 1, 2006... Spending just under an hour and a half watching Ireland's California-ised youth eat itself is a pleasure. In Boy Eats Girl, directed by Stephen Bradley for Element Films, a clatter of Dublin secondary school kids, their cultural touchstones...

Masculinity in Contemporary Irish Cinema
January 1, 2006... In the mid- to late-1990s, Irish Cinema underwent a radical shift, which entailed, among other significant features, a thematic trajectory from the rural to the urban, from the historical to the contemporary and from the local to the universal...

Adam and Paul
January 1, 2006... Taking their cue from comments made by director Lenny Abrahamson, many reviewers of Adam and Paul (2004) compared elements of the film's style and content with the Laurel and Hardy series and Beckett's Waiting for Godot. In terms of...

The Trouble with Sex
January 1, 2006... Shot in twenty-eight days, Fintan Connolly's The Trouble with Sex (2005) is a brash attempt at dealing with the formerly taboo subject of sex as a central subject in contemporary Irish cinema. Paradoxically however, more results in less. As was...

Pure Mule
January 1, 2006... In any year 'Pure Mule' would be a significant achievement. That it received 8 IFTA nominations in 2005--winning 5--speaks for itself about its place in the televisual landscape of the past 12 months. RTE, through its Independent Production Unit...

Fair City
January 1, 2006... There was a sense of a yawning gap in the picture of Irish society emerging from RTE drama ever since the demise of Tolka Row (1964-1968). For the next two decades, there was talk of the need for a new urban serial. When RTE announced Fair City...

Mickybo and Me and the Mighty Celt
January 1, 2006... Although Mickybo and Me (2005) and The Mighty Celt (2005) initially appear to have much in common by representing both images of the conflict in Northern Ireland and concepts of childhood, the films differ enormously in their treatment of such...

Man about Dog
January 1, 2006... Man About Dog (2004) is an Irish comedy-caper-road-movie about three Northern wide-boys who mange to get their hands on a prizewinning greyhound. They travel from North to South in pursuit of their fortune chased by a big-shot greyhound breeder...

Documentary Film and Television
January 1, 2006... The year 2005 was a significant one for Irish documentary, marking the release of one of the most important non-fiction films ever seen on the island. Unfortunately, it was actually made in 1968. The re-release of Peter Lennon's Rocky Road to...

Pavee Lackeen
January 1, 2006... It has become almost a truism among Irish film-makers and scholars that foreign filmmakers have been responsible for some of the more questionable representations of Ireland, creating, according to the authors of the seminal study on Irish...

Adaptations: Tara Road and Breakfast on Pluto
January 1, 2006... ... and God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character. (Robert McKee character in ...

El enigma de la feminidad: la musica en "The Dead" de James Joyce y la adaptacion cinematografica de John Huston.(feminity and music in John Huston's film adaptation of James Joyce's "The Dead" )(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... Resumen: El presente estudio se adentra en el uso de la musica en el relato de uno de los escritores irlandeses mas internacionales, James Joyce -"The Dead" (1914)- y en su adaptacion cinematografica de John Huston con el mismo titulo (1987)....

Talking with William Trevor: 'It All Comes Naturally Now'
January 1, 2006... Fourteen novels, eleven collections of short stories, several novellas, plays and books of memoirs, together with numerous prizes and awards, speak for a life devoted to the craft of fiction. But Mr Trevor is a professional writer who likes to...

"Those Five Glenties Women": Echoes of Lorca in Dancing at Lughnasa
January 1, 2006... Abstract: This essay will attempt to show the numerous points that Lorca's La casa de Bernarda Alba and Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa have in common. Both plays create an intense rural atmosphere in their respective countries -Ireland and Spain-...

Irish Studies in Spain-2005
January 1, 2006... Introduction Metaforas de su tierra by Maria Amor Barros del Rio Joyceana: Literaria Hibernica by M.E. Jaime de Pablos & J. M. Estevez Saa (eds.) Las poeticas de James Joyce y Luis Martin-Santos by Marisol Morales Ladron La novela...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce, the Myth of Icarus, and the Influence of Christopher Marlowe
January 1, 2006... Abstract: Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1914) concludes at the point when Stephen Dedalus--a character substantially modelled on Joyce himself--is about to leave the Ireland of his childhood and young-adult years. Presented as...

Accepting the Grotesque Body: Bildungs by Clare Boylan and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
January 1, 2006... Abstract: In Clare Boylan's fantasy novel Black Baby (1988) and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's realistic novel The Dancers Dancing (1999), female protagonists fear those who symbolize the grotesqueness of their own overweight bodies; hence, these heroines...

Antoine O Flatharta's Elviad: From Grasta I Meiricea to Grace in America
January 1, 2006... Abstract. Antoine O Flatharta bilingually charts media-saturated global impacts upon Galway's Gaelic-speakers. His play in Irish, Grasta i Meiricea (1990) features two young Irishmen who journey by bus on a pilgrimage to Elvis' Graceland. In its...

Fabulism and Irish Censorship
January 1, 2006... Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyse the effects of the introduction of Censorship legislation on Irish culture. The analysis focuses on the reasons behind the introduction of the Censorship of Publications Act of 1929 and previous...

Introduction
January 1, 2006... 31 January 2006 For Issue 1 of Estudios Irlandeses we have kept the number of reviews limited to a half-dozen. In future issues we hope to expand this number and provide more substantial space in keeping with the ambitions of an internet...

Irish Haiku.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Irish Haiku by Chris Arthur (illustrated by Jeff Hall III). (The Davies Group, Publishers, 2005) pp.234 + xxiv In his third book of prose reflections, Chris Arthur reminds us that "essay derives from essai, to experiment", and uses the...

The Sea.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Sea by John Banville (London: Picador, 2005) John Banville is unquestionably one of the great contemporary Irish masters of language. His fiction is closer to poetry than prose. Throughout his writing career he has received important...

Sheela-na-gigs: Unravelling an Enigma.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Sheela-na-gigs. Unravelling an Enigma by Barbara Freitag (London: Routledge, 2004) Caught in stone I celebrate all who tell the truth over centuries of darkness These are the closing lines in Susan Connolly's...

The Irish Writer and the World.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Irish Writer and the World by Declan Kiberd (Cambridge: C.U.P., 2005) 331 pp. In two previous books on Irish culture and literature, Inventing Ireland (1996) and Irish Classics (2002), Kiberd assesses the complex emergence of a...

Memoir.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Memoir by John McGahern (London: Faber and Faber, 2005) 272 pp. What emerges most strikingly from John Mc Gahern's autobiographical record is the extent of his mother's contribution to his early development, and her influence on his life...

In the Shadow of the Ombu Tree.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... In the Shadow of the Ombu Tree by Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan (Enniscorthy: Chaos Press, 2005) 329 pp. Perhaps one of the most frequent wishes of the Irish gauchos and their cousins in Ireland and other countries is to write the fictionalised...

Traduccion literaria del irlandes al espanol: Pharaoh's Daughter de Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill (Siete poemas).(Poem)
January 1, 2006... Geasa Ma chuirim aon lamh ar an dtearmann beannaithe, ma thogaim droichead thar an abhainn, gach a mbionn togtha islo ages na ceardaithe bionn se leagtha ar maidin romham. Tagann anios an abhainn istoiche bad ...

Troubling" Thrillers: Between Politics and Popular Fiction in the Novels of Benedict Kiely, Brian Moore and Colin Bateman (1)
January 1, 2006... Abstract: Since the beginning of the Northern Ireland "Troubles", interest in exploring the social and political concerns of a region affected by sectarian violence and religious bigotry has produced a significant body of literary works within...

'Talk Talk Talk ... ': Virginia Woolf, Ireland and Maria Edgeworth
January 1, 2006... Abstract: This article considers Woolf's only visit to Ireland and her attitude to the country as revealed in her diary and in a review of a book about Maria Edgeworth. She considered the fault of the Irish to be their loquaciousness. Her diary...

An Essential Picture in a Sketch-Book of Ireland: The Last Hedge Schools
January 1, 2006... Abstract: The national system of education was introduced in Ireland in 1831, which meant the beginning of the end for hedge schools. Nevertheless, they lasted longer than it is popularly believed and up to the 1870s there were still many...