Éire-Ireland Journal

Updates from Éire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies, published by Irish American Cultural Institute. Tweets by @nicholasmwolf & @immirage

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Excited to share information for the launch event for our latest Spring/Summer special issue, "Notaí/Notes: Music and Ireland," assembled by guest editors Méabh Ní Fhuartháin and Verena Commins: https://t.co/6vtledRlMU

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"At the turn of the nineteenth century, Owenson and her contemporaries refashioned the bodkin's history for their own political ends." On the fashioning and use of the bodkin in Irish literature, as explored by Colleen Taylor in our latest issue: https://t.co/anHQzGPTWW

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Christopher Ivic writes of Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland (c. 1596) that "we have yet to appreciate fully the tract's cultural, ideological, and political use of collective memory." See https://t.co/SkiKcZvNpy

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"Trump celebrates his 'base' mainly to weaponize them. Like Simon Dedalus, he practices a form of populist ventriloquism, giving 'the people' a voice strictly
as a megaphone for his own." Joseph Valente re-reads Joyce in light of current U.S. politics: https://t.co/Mjzk5JevrA

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"Irish Studies is a lively and developing academic field in China," writes Chen Li in an overview of the field. See É-I 53:3&4, https://t.co/tkvgwtSjjr

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Elizabeth McKillen outlines the role of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington in building an "anti-imperialist backlash within the United States against both Wilsonian internationalism and the Republican unilateralism of the 1920s." See our latest issue: https://t.co/3hiPPcPQr3

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"Late on the morning of 13 March 1832 Thomas Potts, engineer and overseer...observed four men clad in long coats and armed with firearms approach him." See Terence Dunn on subaltern collective agency, É-I 53:3&4 https://t.co/XQhheD65p6

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Alan McCarthy writes in É-I 53:3&4 that the "erratic performance" of Lord Decies as wartime press censor "crucially polarized nationalist opinion...while also remaining emblematic of the precipitous misgovernance blighting Dublin Castle." See https://t.co/sLr8UPNNVm

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Follow the travails of Jim Larkin's tenure in the U.S. as traced by Gerry Watts in É-I 53:3&4 https://t.co/JRAE6QHlPW: "During Larkin's last year in the United States he had the distinction of being simultaneously 'shadowed' by the Bureau, the British, and the Irish Free State."

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"The specter of urban life haunted much of the Gaelic literature produced around the turn of the century." See @siobhra's look at the image of the city in Irish-language writing of the diaspora in our latest issue: https://t.co/WRrv3Plxm8

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"Life without the motorcar seemed inconceivable by 1959." Read up on the growth of motoring in Ireland as a counter to the notion of pre-1960 Irish malaise in "Accidents, Americana, and Automobility" by @L_Blaney in our latest issue: https://t.co/P35I85owf4

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Volume 53:3&4, Fall/Winter 2018 is now available @ProjectMuse! The essays of this latest issue cover topics ranging from the late 16th century to the state of contemporary Irish Studies, and travels the globe from Ireland to New York and China. https://t.co/4Ww9ozqGzk

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Building out the figure of Casement: “Roger Casement’s Contribution to the Ethnographical and Economic Botany Collections in the National Museum of Ireland,” by M.J.P. Scannell and O. Snoddy, Éire-Ireland 3:4 (1968)

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“I was always the pet of the family, kept for admiration in a cage like a canary.” From Lustre, a tragedy in one act, by Seamas O’Kelly and Count Casimir de Markievicz, published for only the second time in Éire-Ireland 2:4 (1967)

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Past notes, Éire-Ireland 8:2 (1973): “Flood Waters Destroy Irish Library,” a reminder of when tropical storm Agnes destroyed “an extensive collection of books on all phases of Irish culture.” (See also https://t.co/hqWkAqSoDM).

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“Early reviewers responded uneasily, at once amused and bemused.” From Ian Campbell Ross’s study, Éire-Ireland 18:3 (1983), of Thomas Amory, author of The Life of John Buncle, Esq. (1756), “the tale, told by himself, of an Irish Unitarian, eight times married.”

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From the archives: detail from unsigned original cover art from Éire-Ireland 9:4 (1974)

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“It is difficult not to see him as a lump of genius just sitting there in the huts while the peasants did the talking.” On Yeats, by Jan Olof Olsson and Margareta Sjögren in Plogren och stjänorna (1968), reviewed by Clas Zilliacus, Éire-Ireland 4:2 (1969)

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Éire-Ireland 53:1&2 is up and available @ProjectMUSE https://t.co/FWBGOZIADQ. This issue we feature a trio of essays reappraising the ideology of Douglas Hyde, plus six essays and interviews on the curiously strong Irish basis of biofiction.

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Cú na mBaskerville, scéal na haistriúcháin: Éire-Ireland 35:1&2 (2000), special issue on translation https://t.co/SnWCpls8CZ