Eire-Ireland: a Journal of Irish Studies articles from September 2003

Eire-Ireland: a Journal of Irish Studies archives from September 2003

Editors' introduction.(Editorial)
September 22, 2003... This issue suggests the many directions of current scholarship in Irish Studies: work characterized by new archival research, revisionist unsettlings of earlier assumptions, and innovative interdisciplinary initiatives. We begin with four...

The decline and rebirth of "folk memory": remembering "the year of the French" in the late twentieth century *.
September 22, 2003... THE study of folklore has been construed as the documentation of a vanishing subject. This "poetics of disappearance," (1) which echoes the classic studies in social anthropology, perpetuates a nebulous concept of the final hour of "authentic"...

Now you don't see it, now you do: situating the Irish in the material culture of Grosse Ile.
September 22, 2003... Material culture is culture made material; it is the inner wit at work in the world. Beginning necessarily with things, but not ending with them, the study of material culture uses objects to approach human thought and action. (Glassie,...

Legless in London: padraic o conaire and eamon a burc (1).
September 22, 2003... PADRAIC O Conaire's short novel, Deoraiocht [Exile] (1910), written in London and published when he was twenty-eight, is the earliest example of modernist fiction in Irish. (2) Its narrator, Micil O Maolain, has been hit by a car shortly after...

The cabinet of Irish literature: a historical perspective on Irish anthologies *.
September 22, 2003... I. THE "CULTURE OF THE EXCERPT" AMONG the flurry of reviews and commentaries that followed the publication of volumes I to III of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing in 1991, those of most enduring interest moved beyond the heat of...

John Mitchel and the rejection of the nineteenth century.
September 22, 2003... IN response to a friend who accused him of not believing in the future of humanity, the Young Irelander John Mitchel retorted that, on the contrary, he did believe that humanity had a future but that "its future will be very much like its past:...

The Fenians in Montreal, 1862-68: invasion, intrigue, and assassination (1).
September 22, 2003... DURING the winter of 1865-66 reports reached the Canadian government that the Fenians--the physical-force Irish republican revolutionaries with their headquarters in New York--were planning to invade British North America. After a stormy...

Landlord responses to the Irish Land War, 1879-87.
September 22, 2003... In his magisterial study, Landlords and Tenants in Mid-Victorian Ireland, William Vaughan redresses the imbalance of John Pomfret's pioneering work, The Struggle for Land in Ireland, 1800-1923 (Princeton, 1930), that depicted the Irish...

D.P. Moran and the leader: writing an Irish Ireland through partition *.
September 22, 2003... FOR readers of Irish literature D.P. Moran (1869-1936) is best remembered as a pugnacious journalist who, at the turn of the twentieth century, coined an increasingly exclusivist form of cultural politics under the rubric "Irish Ireland."...

Afterimage of the revolution: Kevin O'Higgins and the Irish revolution (1).
September 22, 2003... KEVIN O'Higgins once famously referred to himself as one of "the most conservative-minded revolutionaries that ever put through a successful revolution." (2) This comment, however revealing, seems to have obscured later historical views of...

Wives, mothers, and citizens: the treatment of women in the 1935 nationality and citizenship act.
September 22, 2003... "CLEARLY, male Irish political leaders saw women only in domestic terms. Women were mothers. Women were wives. Women minded the hearth and home." (1) Most historians would accept this evaluation of the position of women in the early years of...