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Representing Magic in Modern Ireland - Belief, History, and Culture (Paperback)
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Representing Magic in Modern Ireland - Belief, History, and Culture (Paperback)
Series: Elements in Magic
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Discovery Miles 5 980
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This Element argues that Ireland did not experience a disenchanted
modernity, nor a decline in magic. It suggests that beliefs,
practices and traditions concerning witchcraft and magic developed
and adapted to modernity to retain cultural currency until the end
of the twentieth century. This analysis provides the backdrop for
the first systematic exploration of how historic Irish trials of
witches and cunning-folk were represented by historians,
antiquarians, journalists, dramatists, poets, and novelists in
Ireland between the late eighteenth and late twentieth century. It
is demonstrated that this work created an accepted narrative of
Irish witchcraft and magic which glossed over, ignored, or obscured
the depth of belief in witchcraft, both in the past and in
contemporary society. Collectively, their work gendered Irish
witchcraft, created a myth of a disenchanted, modern Ireland, and
reinforced competing views of Irishness and Irish identity. These
long-held stereotypes were only challenged in the late
twentieth-century.
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