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Sounding the Margins is the second of two publications to emerge
from the highly successful AFIS conference hosted by the Universite
de Lille in 2019. Concentrating on the literary manifestations of
marginality in Ireland and France, the essays treat of various
texts that demonstrate the extent to which marginality is a
recurring trope. This may well be because writers tend to situate
themselves at a distance from the centre or status quo in their
desire to maintain a certain degree of artistic objectivity. But it
is also the case that literary practitioners tend to identify more
easily with others living on the margins, either through choice or
circumstances. The collection is a mixture of comparative studies
and essays on individual authors but, in all cases, marginality is
presented as a liberating experience once it is freely chosen and
embraced.
From a Church that once enjoyed devotional loyalty, political
influence, and institutional power unrivaled in Europe, the
Catholic Church in Ireland now faces collapse. Devastated by a
series of reports on clerical sexual abuse, challenged publicly
during several political battles, and painfully aware of plunging
Mass attendance, the Irish Church today is confronted with the loss
of its institutional legitimacy. This study is the first
international and interdisciplinary attempt to consider the scope
of the problem, analyze issues that are crucial to the Irish
context, and identify signs of both resilience and renewal. In
addition to an overview of the current status and future directions
of Irish Catholicism, The Catholic Church in Ireland Today examines
specific issues such as growing secularism, the changing image of
Irish bishops, generational divides, Catholic migrants to Ireland,
the abuse crisis and responses in Ireland and the United States,
Irish missionaries, the political role of Irish priests, the 2012
Dublin Eucharistic Congress, and contemplative strands in Irish
identity. This book identifies the key issues that students of
Irish society and others interested in Catholic culture must
examine in order to understand the changing roles of religion in
the contemporary world.
This landmark collection marks the publication of the 100th book in
the Reimagining Ireland series. It attempts to provide a "forward
look" (as opposed to what Frank O'Connor once referred to as the "
backward look") at what Irish Studies might look like in the third
millennium. With a Foreword by Declan Kiberd, it also contains
essays by several other leading Irish Studies experts on (among
other areas) literature and critical theory, sport, the Irish
language, food and beverage studies, cinema, women's writing,
Brexit, religion, Northern Ireland, the legacy of the Great Famine,
Ireland in the French imagination, archival research, musicology,
and Irish Studies in North America. The book is a tribute to Irish
Studies' foundational commitment to revealing and renewing
Irishness within and beyond the national space.
This book looks at various effects, symptoms and consequences of
the period in Irish culture known as the Celtic Tiger. It will
trace the critical pathway from boom to bust - and up to the
current beginnings of a similar, smaller boom - through events,
personalities and products. The short entries offer a sense of the
lived experience of this seismic period in contemporary Irish
society. While clearly not all aspects of the period could
realistically be covered, the book does contain essential
information about the central actors, events, themes, and economic
trends, which are discussed in a readable and accessible manner.
Each entry is linked to the overall Celtic Tiger phenomenon and its
immediate aftermath. The book also provides a comprehensive account
of what happened in this period and will be a factual resource for
anyone anxious to discover information on the areas most commonly
connected to it. All entries are written by experts in the area.
The contributors include broadcasters, economists, cultural
theorists, sociologists, literary critics, journalists, politicians
and writers, each of whom brings particular insights to some aspect
of the Celtic Tiger.
This collection of essays explores the concept of patrimoine, a
French word used to denote cultural heritage, traditional customs
and practices - the Gaelic equivalent is duchas - and the extent to
which it impacts on France and Ireland. Borrowing from disciplines
as varied as sociology, cultural theory, literature, marketing,
theology, history, musicology and business, the contributors to the
volume unearth interesting manifestations of how patrimoine
resonates across cultural divides and bestows uniqueness and
specificity on countries and societies, sometimes in a subliminal
manner. Issues covered include debt as heritage, Guinness as a
cultural icon of "Irishness", faith-based tourism, the Huguenot
heritage in Ireland, Irish musical inheritances since Independence,
Skellig Michael and the commodification of Irish culture. With a
Foreword by His Excellency M. Stephane Crouzat, French Ambassador
to Ireland, this collection breaks new ground in assessing the
close links between France and Ireland, links that will become all
the more important in light of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from
the European Union.
This volume of essays, which originated in the inaugural Dublin
Gastronomy Symposium held in the Dublin Institute of Technology in
June 2012, offers fascinating insights into the significant role
played by gastronomy in Irish literature and culture. The book
opens with an exploration of food in literature, covering figures
as varied as Maria Edgeworth, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Enid
Blyton, John McGahern and Sebastian Barry. Other chapters examine
culinary practices among the Dublin working classes in the 1950s,
offering a stark contrast to the haute cuisine served in the iconic
Jammet's Restaurant; new trends among Ireland's 'foodie'
generation; and the economic and tourism possibilities created by
the development of a gastronomic nationalism. The volume concludes
by looking at the sacramental aspects of the production and
consumption of Guinness and examining the place where it is most
often consumed: the Irish pub.
C'est la qualite transculturelle, atemporelle et transgenerique des
textes de Colum McCann qui interesse cet ouvrage. L'auteur n'ancre
completement son oeuvre dans aucune tradition, aucun courant ou
mode defini, et propose des textes recalcitrants a toute tentative
de classification. En invitant regulierement le symbole dans un
univers vraisemblable, McCann ebranle parfois le realisme de ses
textes. De plus, en logeant dans son oeuvre celles et ceux qui ne
trouvent pas leur place au centre du tourbillon de l'ere qui est la
notre, il prend le contrepied du discours historiographique
dominant. Ainsi, la notion de rupture apparait comme une cle de
lecture, et son etude permet de comprendre qu'au plan metatextuel,
elle inclut plus aisement les lecteurs au sein meme des textes,
lesquels representent des espaces d'accueil, de veritables forces
centripetes qui les ramenent au coeur de l'experience litteraire.
Cet ouvrage ne s'interesse donc pas seulement a la creation et a la
constitution des textes, mais egalement a leur reception. Ils
pourraient etre percus comme autant de synapses assurant la
transmission de l'experience, qui constituent des outils permettant
aux lecteurs de repenser leur etre-au-monde, notamment a travers
l'experience de l'empathie.
This collection examines the Irish economic phenomenon of the
Celtic Tiger and the financial disaster that came in its wake, from
a socio-cultural perspective. It focuses on how these financial
developments have been reflected in writing, film and culture in
order to offer a more rounded analysis of the effects of this
momentous period on people's lives. Employing a wide range of
cultural lenses, the book critiques the cultural, political and
aesthetic implications of the progression from prosperity to
austerity and the impact this has had on the psyche of Irish
culture. An eclectic mix of theoretical approaches enables
treatment of religion, literature, popular culture, photography,
gastronomy, music, gender, immigration and film, as contributors
assess how the Celtic Tiger was represented, or misrepresented, in
these particular spheres of experience. In addition, the chapters
also probe the effects on all of the aforementioned cultural forms,
and interrogate how the lives of people have been transformed in
ways that go beyond the already well-documented areas of economics
and finance. The book will be a valuable resource for academics and
students interested in contemporary Ireland and recent Irish
history, as well as the general reader anxious to understand the
effects of this particular period on the real lives of people as
expressed through culture. It features contributions by
internationally acknowledged experts in their fields and offers a
comprehensive overview of the cultural consequences of the Celtic
Tiger and its aftermath. -- .
This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the
visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into
clerical sex abuse in that diocese in 2011. The young people
awaiting the Pope's address in Galway were entertained by two of
Ireland's most charismatic clerics, Bishop Eamon Casey and Fr
Michael Cleary, both of whom were subsequently revealed to have
been engaged in romantic liaisons at the time. The decades that
followed the Pope's visit were characterised by the increasing
secularisation of Irish society. Boasting an impressive array of
contributors from various backgrounds and expertise, the essays in
the book attempt to trace the exact reasons for the progressive
dismantling of the cultural legacy of Catholicism and the
consequences this has had on Irish society. -- .
This collection examines the Irish economic phenomenon of the
Celtic Tiger and the financial disaster that came in its wake, from
a socio-cultural perspective. It focuses on how these financial
developments have been reflected in writing, film and culture in
order to offer a more rounded analysis of the effects of this
momentous period on people's lives. Employing a wide range of
cultural lenses, the book critiques the cultural, political and
aesthetic implications of the progression from prosperity to
austerity and the impact this has had on the psyche of Irish
culture. An eclectic mix of theoretical approaches enables
treatment of religion, literature, popular culture, photography,
gastronomy, music, gender, immigration and film, as contributors
assess how the Celtic Tiger was represented, or misrepresented, in
these particular spheres of experience. In addition, the chapters
also probe the effects on all of the aforementioned cultural forms,
and interrogate how the lives of people have been transformed in
ways that go beyond the already well-documented areas of economics
and finance. The book will be a valuable resource for academics and
students interested in contemporary Ireland and recent Irish
history, as well as the general reader anxious to understand the
effects of this particular period on the real lives of people as
expressed through culture. It features contributions by
internationally acknowledged experts in their fields and offers a
comprehensive overview of the cultural consequences of the Celtic
Tiger and its aftermath. -- .
This collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern
scholars, provides solid reasons for why the Leitrim writer has
assumed canonical status since his premature death in 2006, an
event which sparked something akin to a period of national mourning
in Ireland. The reason why so many people felt his loss so keenly
is probably due to the fact that McGahern's attention to detail,
his feel for landscape, his understanding of the Irish psyche, his
carefully chiselled prose, his love of social and religious
rituals, all contributed to his remarkable evocation of what it was
like to live in Ireland at a specific time in its evolution - that
is to say, from the time of independence up to the beginning of the
new millennium. This is a multidisciplinary collection which
situates McGahern in his literary context and explains the
ingredients that make him such a revered writer, one who had his
finger firmly on the pulse of the nation. Violence, love and
desire, ecology, memory, friendship, photography, rage, sin, are
examined with a view to assessing how they are pertinent to
McGahern's work and the extent to which they contribute to his
literary legacy. Declan Kiberd speaks from personal experience of
the young writer who taught in Belgrove National School and was
fascinated with cricket, whereas Donal Ryan describes how reading
McGahern almost caused him to abandon his literary vocation because
of his belief that he could never write like this master of prose.
There is something in this book for both the specialist and
non-specialist alike and it is essential reading for anyone with
even a passing interest in McGahern the man and writer. Derek Hand
is Head of the School of English at Dublin City University and
Eamon Maher is a Lecturer in Technological University Dublin
Provides a new and much needed appraisal of Ireland's engagement
with the phenomenon of modernity. The path we have traveled from
being a rural-based, religious, traditional, insular country, to a
secular, highly prosperous economic hi-tech centre has brought in
its wake both problems and advantages. 'Engaging Modernity'
evaluates how in the realms of politics, culture and literature,
Ireland has undergone a major paradigm shift. This book is composed
of a selection of papers from a conference held under the auspices
of EFACIS (European Federation of Centres and Associations of Irish
Studies) in Aarhus (Denmark) in 2001 and organized by Michael
B""ss. It brought together academics and commentators from many
European countries and the book bears witness to a diversity of
opinions on Ireland's recent evolution.
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