Eire-Ireland: a Journal of Irish Studies articles from March 22 2004

Eire-Ireland: a Journal of Irish Studies archives from March 22 2004

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sitting on "the outer skin": Somerville and Ross's Through Connemara in a Governess Cart as a coded stratum of linguistic/feminist "union" ideals.
March 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION In her study of the West of Ireland and Irish identity, Catherine Nash notes the increasing pervasiveness of "the West" in popular travel accounts of Ireland throughout the boom years of the professional tourist industry...

Dead men talking: Frank McGuinness's Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme.
March 22, 2004... In a tiny stone church On the desolate headland A lost tribe is singing "Abide With Me." (1) PYPER: Again. As always, again. Why does this persist? What more have we to tell each other? I remember nothing today. Absolutely nothing....

The limits of "New Unionism": David Trimble and the Ulster Unionist Party *.
March 22, 2004... ACADEMIC DISCUSSION of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is still thin on the ground. Since John F. Harbinson's pioneering history appeared in 1973, (1) there has been only one serious academic study of the party. (2) The academic writing that...

Fantasy politics? restructuring unionism after the good Friday agreement.
March 22, 2004... The current arrangements are not a settlement, but a process of concessions--concessions that have turned conventional wisdom on its head. Government policy has been to reward those who do wrong whilst punishing those who want to be democratic....

Unionist identity, external perceptions of Northern Ireland, and the problem of unionist legitimacy *.
March 22, 2004... A common view in journalistic and academic commentary is that the recent internationalization of the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process has had a positive impact. (1) This perspective, however widely shared, carries subtly tendentious...

Orangeism in Scotland: unionism, politics, identity, and football.
March 22, 2004... For almost two hundred years the Orange Institution has been a feature of the religious, social, and cultural life of West Central Scotland. Although a matter of some contention, the Order has developed a powerful political meaning in Scotland,...

Belfast's first bomb, 28 February 1816: class conflict and the origins of Ulster Unionist Hegemony.
March 22, 2004... Irish immigrant correspondence has great scholarly value. It provides insight, of course, into the processes of Irish migration and adaptation, but occasionally it can also illuminate contemporary events, developments, or concerns that...