Eire-Ireland: a Journal of Irish Studies articles from September 2002

Eire-Ireland: a Journal of Irish Studies archives from September 2002

Editors' introduction.(Editorial)
September 22, 2002... One of the pleasures of editing an interdisciplinary journal is the rediscovery of how disparate contributions can enrich and support each other. This issue of Eire-Ireland begins with Gerry Smyth's examination of relationships between the...

"The same sound but with a different meaning": music, repetition, and identity in Bernard Mac Laverty's Grace Notes.
September 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION THE last decade of the twentieth century witnessed a proliferation of novels dealing with the subject of music. I shall leave it to some enthusiastic young scholar to undertake a full inventory, but even a cursory browse of...

Nationalism vs. liberalism in the Irish context: from a postcolonial past to a postmodern future. (1).
September 22, 2002... "Nationalism is all too often the enemy of democracy." (2) THE re-emergence of ethno-nationalism and the increasing strife seen in many parts of the world arising from nationalistic tensions has quieted those who had predicted the end...

Belated Behan: Brendan Behan and the cultural politics of memory.
September 22, 2002... ON the evening of 30 November 1939, Brendan Behan went to his family home, 70 Kildare Road in Dublin, and packed a suitcase. The suitcase contained chlorate of potash and paraffin wax, which was mixed with gelignite to form an explosive...

"Unbroken service": Mairead Ni Ghrada'a career at 2RN, Ireland's first broadcasting station, 1927-35.
September 22, 2002... In the Irish Renascence... women played a vital part, fought, plotted, planned, wrote, painted, acted, alongside their male comrades as equals.... And then, when victory was won, they were thanked and sent back to the domestic...

The war against the R.I.C., 1919-21.(Royal Irish Constabulary)
September 22, 2002... I THE period from Easter Week in 1916 through the end of the Irish Civil War in 1923 continues to attract intense popular and scholarly interest, as reflected in a growing literature of historical treatments, local studies, and personal...

"All creeda and all classes"? Just who made up the Gaelic League?
September 22, 2002... SCHOLARS studying the role of the Gaelic revival in recasting modern Irish identity have generally focused their research on three main areas: specific controversies between Irish-Irelanders and Anglo-Irish litterateurs; descriptions of...

Displaying Ireland: Sydney Owenson and the politics of spectacular antiquarianism. (1).
September 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION The rise of cultural nationalism in early-nineteenth-century Ireland coincided with a growing interest in Gaelic antiquity and history. Fed by a passion for things Gaelic, the antiquarian movement forged a tight link between...

"Whether the white people like it or not": Edmund Burke's speeches on India--caoineadh's cainte.
September 22, 2002... I have no party in this business, my dear Miss Palmer, but among a set of people, who have none of your Lilies and Roses in their face; but who are the images of the Great Pattern as well as you and I. I know what I am doing;...

The tender mother and the faithful wife: theater, charity, and female subjectivity in eighteenth-century Ireland.
September 22, 2002... I. NO PLACE FOR A LADY IN 1745, thanks largely to the efforts of Irish obstetrician Bartholomew Mosse, the first maternity hospital in the British Isles was established in Dublin. A few years later, realizing that the Lying-In Hospital was...

New work on modern Irish drama and theater, 1997-2002: an overview.
September 22, 2002... BOOK-LENGTH CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL STUDIES: Grene, Nicholas. The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Harrington, John P. The Irish Play on the New York Stage,...

Cover.
September 22, 2002... FRONT: James Malton, "Rotunda and New Rooms, Dublin," 1791, aquatint. BACK: James Malton, "Lying in Hospital, Dublin," 1791, aquatint. The images that appear on the front and back covers of this issue are reproduced from...