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Irish Studies in Europe Vol. VI: Towards 2016: 1916 and Irish Literature, Culture & Society

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Crosson, Seán; Huber, Werner (eds.)

Towards 2016: 1916 in Irish Literature, Culture & Society is cognisant of the multiple perspectives and events that are associated with 1916 in Ireland and their continuing relevance to Irish literature, culture and society. The collection considers a broad range of cultural forms and societal issues, including politics, theatre, traditional music, poetry, James Joyce, greyhound sports, graphic novels, contemporary fiction, documentary, language, political representation, and the Irish economy with contributions from both emerging academics and established scholars. Also featured is an interview with acclaimed film director and novelist Neil Jordan (conducted by novelist Patrick McCabe) on his life and work, including his biopic Michael Collins (1996), a work which includes one of the most memorable renderings of the Rising and its aftermath. Among the questions considered in the collection are: What were the formative influences on one of leaders of the Rising, James Connolly? What effect had the Rising on Ireland’s fledgling labour movement? What impact did the Rising have on the Abbey and Irish theatre? What connects 1916, James Joyce, and the Cuban Revolution? What is the relevance of 1916 to Irish traditional music? What place has 1916 in contemporary Irish fiction and poetry? What are the relations between the Rising, sequential art, popular culture, and memory? A century after the 1916 Proclamation spoke of equality between women and men, could Ireland be finally about to realise equal gender distribution in politics? Does ‘Irish sovereignty’, a central concern of the Rising leaders, have any relevance for Ireland in the contemporary globalised and European Union context?

 

Table of Contents

Full volume
S. Crosson; 1916 and Irish Literature, Culture & Society: An Introduction
N. Beese; From the Frying Pan into the Fire: James Connolly and the Transnational Importance of Scottish and Irish Slums
M. C. Connolly; "Changed Utterly": The Shaping of the Modern Irish Labour Movement in the Aftermath of Easter 1916
H. Wood; Irish Identity Onstage
V. Commins; Musical Statues: Monumentalising Irish Traditional Music
T. Phillips; "Our dead shall not have died in vain": The War Poetry of Harry Midgley
M. T. Caneda Cabrera; Trans/atlantic Mobilities: Translating Narratives of Irish Resistance
L. Daniel; The Changing Symbolism of Greyhound Sports in the Work of Bryan MacMahon
V.Morisson; Rewriting Irish History (1916-1921) in Popular Culture: Blood upon the Rose and At War with the Empire by Gerry Hunt
C. Luppino; A Terrible Beauty Was Born?
E. Cotta Ramusino; Neil Jordan's The Past: A Journey in Time and Memory
D. Abbate Badin; "People mired in history": Sebastian Barry and Cultural Memory in a European Perspective
J. Kruczkowska; Tom Paulin and Ulster: Subversion or Sabotage?
Eilís Ní Dhúill; Cleachtas na Scéalaíochta i gCorca Dhuibhne
T.J. White, M.Mariani, F.Buckley, C.McGing; Women's Political Role in Old and New Ireland: From Marginalization to Gender Quotas
A. Ahearne; Economic Sovereignty in Ireland: A Thing of the Past?
P. McCabe; "1916 I think impossible to think about without thinking of Yeats and O'Casey": Public Interview with Neil Jordan
Notes on Contributors
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