Eire-Ireland: a Journal of Irish Studies articles

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Guest editor's introduction.(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... Introduction IN ULSTER AS IT IS, Thomas MacKnight, editor of the Northern Whig, described late nineteenth-century Ulster in the following terms: "The plain, the undeniable truth is that there are two antagonistic populations, two different nations on Irish soil." (1) While rarely...

Standish James O'Grady: between imperial romance and Irish Revival *.
March 22, 2004... STANDISH JAMES O'GRADY is one of the most enigmatic and influential figures of late-nineteenth-century Irish cultural history. He praised aristocratic values and denounced the aristocracy; Lady Gregory called him a "Fenian Unionist," and Pearse acknowledged his influence. There have been two...

An open national identity: Rutherford Mayne, Gerald MacNamara, and the plays of the Ulster Literary Theatre *.
March 22, 2004... During the early decades of the twentieth century, while Ireland's Abbey Theatre tried hard to create a unified image of nationhood in the figure of a West-of-Ireland peasant, a little theatre company in the North of Ireland addressed issues of national representation by very different means....

Richard Moynan: Irish artist and unionist propagandist *.
March 22, 2004... IT IS A WELL-ESTABLISHED FACT that history is written by the victors, but it is less widely acknowledged that history is also painted by the victors. In Inventing Ireland, Declan Kiberd argues that the bloody Irish revolution of 1916-23 was preceded by a verbal battle, a primarily literary...

The Mild Irish Girl: domesticating the national tale.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION [Sydney Owenson's sentiments are] mischievous in tendency, and profligate in principle; licentious and irreverent in the highest degree... If... she could be persuaded to exchange her idle raptures for common sense, practice a little self-denial, and gather a few precepts...