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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and the OAPEN library. As the prominence
of the recent #WakingTheFeminists movement illustrates, the Irish
theatre world is highly conscious of the ways in which theatre can
foster social emancipation. This volume of essays uncovers a wide
range of marginalised histories by reflecting on the emancipatory
role that the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) has played in Irish
culture and society, both historically and in more recent times.
The Gate's founders, Hilton Edwards and Micheal mac Liammoir,
promoted the work of many female playwrights and created an
explicitly cosmopolitan stage on which repressive ideas about
gender, sexuality, class and language were questioned. During
Selina Cartmell's current tenure as director, cultural diversity
and social emancipation have also featured prominently on the
Gate's agenda, with various productions exploring issues of
ethnicity in contemporary Ireland. The Gate thus offers a unique
model for studying the ways in which cosmopolitan theatres, as
cultural institutions, give expression to and engage with the
complexities of identity and diversity in changing, globalised
societies. CONTRIBUTORS: David Clare, Marguerite Corporaal, Mark
Fitzgerald, Barry Houlihan, Radvan Markus, Deirdre McFeely, Justine
Nakase, Siobhan O'Gorman, Mary Trotter, Grace Vroomen, Ian R.
Walsh, Feargal Whelan
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and the OAPEN library. As the prominence
of the recent #WakingTheFeminists movement illustrates, the Irish
theatre world is highly conscious of the ways in which theatre can
foster social emancipation. This volume of essays uncovers a wide
range of marginalised histories by reflecting on the emancipatory
role that the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) has played in Irish
culture and society, both historically and in more recent times.
The Gate's founders, Hilton Edwards and Micheal mac Liammoir,
promoted the work of many female playwrights and created an
explicitly cosmopolitan stage on which repressive ideas about
gender, sexuality, class and language were questioned. During
Selina Cartmell's current tenure as director, cultural diversity
and social emancipation have also featured prominently on the
Gate's agenda, with various productions exploring issues of
ethnicity in contemporary Ireland. The Gate thus offers a unique
model for studying the ways in which cosmopolitan theatres, as
cultural institutions, give expression to and engage with the
complexities of identity and diversity in changing, globalised
societies. CONTRIBUTORS: David Clare, Marguerite Corporaal, Mark
Fitzgerald, Barry Houlihan, Radvan Markus, Deirdre McFeely, Justine
Nakase, Siobhan O'Gorman, Mary Trotter, Grace Vroomen, Ian R.
Walsh, Feargal Whelan
Irish Global Migration and Memory: Transnational Perspectives of
Ireland's Famine Exodus brings together leading scholars in the
field who examine the experiences and recollections of Irish
emigrants who fled from their famine-stricken homeland in the
mid-nineteenth century. The book breaks new ground in its
comparative, transnational approach and singular focus on the
dynamics of cultural remembrance of one migrant group, the Famine
Irish and their descendants, in multiple Atlantic and Pacific
settings. Its authors comparatively examine the collective
experiences of the Famine Irish in terms of their community and
institution building; cultural, ethnic, and racial encounters with
members of other groups; and especially their patterns of
mass-migration, integration, and remembrance of their traumatic
upheaval by their descendants and host societies. The disruptive
impact of their mass-arrival had reverberations around the Atlantic
world. As an early refugee movement, migrant community, and ethnic
minority, Irish Famine emigrants experienced and were recollected
to have faced many of the challenges that confronted later
immigrant groups in their destinations of settlement. This book is
especially topical and will be of interest not only to Irish,
migration, and refugee scholars, but also the general public and
all who seek to gain insight into one of Europe's foundational
moments of forced migration that prefigures its current refugee
crisis. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Atlantic Studies: Global Currents.
Exploring the effects of traveling, migration, and other forms of
cultural contact, particularly within Europe, this edited
collection explores the act of traveling and the representation of
traveling by Irish men and women from diverse walks of life in the
period between Grattan's Parliament (1782) and World War I (1914).
This was a period marked by an increasing physical and cultural
mobility of Irish throughout Britain, Continental Europe, the
Americas, and the Pacific. Travel was undertaken for a variety of
reasons: during the Romantic period, the 'Grand Tour' and what is
now sometimes referred to as medical tourism brought Irish artists
and intellectuals to Europe, where cultural exchanges with other
writers, artists, and thinkers inspired them to introduce novel
ideas and cultural forms to their Irish audiences. Showing this
impact of the nineteenth-century Irish across national borders and
their engagement with global cultural and linguistic traditions,
the volume will provide novel insights into the transcultural
spheres of the arts, literature, politics, and translation in which
they were active.
Irish Global Migration and Memory: Transnational Perspectives of
Ireland's Famine Exodus brings together leading scholars in the
field who examine the experiences and recollections of Irish
emigrants who fled from their famine-stricken homeland in the
mid-nineteenth century. The book breaks new ground in its
comparative, transnational approach and singular focus on the
dynamics of cultural remembrance of one migrant group, the Famine
Irish and their descendants, in multiple Atlantic and Pacific
settings. Its authors comparatively examine the collective
experiences of the Famine Irish in terms of their community and
institution building; cultural, ethnic, and racial encounters with
members of other groups; and especially their patterns of
mass-migration, integration, and remembrance of their traumatic
upheaval by their descendants and host societies. The disruptive
impact of their mass-arrival had reverberations around the Atlantic
world. As an early refugee movement, migrant community, and ethnic
minority, Irish Famine emigrants experienced and were recollected
to have faced many of the challenges that confronted later
immigrant groups in their destinations of settlement. This book is
especially topical and will be of interest not only to Irish,
migration, and refugee scholars, but also the general public and
all who seek to gain insight into one of Europe's foundational
moments of forced migration that prefigures its current refugee
crisis. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Atlantic Studies: Global Currents.
Exploring the effects of traveling, migration, and other forms of
cultural contact, particularly within Europe, this edited
collection explores the act of traveling and the representation of
traveling by Irish men and women from diverse walks of life in the
period between Grattan's Parliament (1782) and World War I (1914).
This was a period marked by an increasing physical and cultural
mobility of Irish throughout Britain, Continental Europe, the
Americas, and the Pacific. Travel was undertaken for a variety of
reasons: during the Romantic period, the 'Grand Tour' and what is
now sometimes referred to as medical tourism brought Irish artists
and intellectuals to Europe, where cultural exchanges with other
writers, artists, and thinkers inspired them to introduce novel
ideas and cultural forms to their Irish audiences. Showing this
impact of the nineteenth-century Irish across national borders and
their engagement with global cultural and linguistic traditions,
the volume will provide novel insights into the transcultural
spheres of the arts, literature, politics, and translation in which
they were active.
The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s left a profound impact on Irish
culture, as recent ground-breaking historical and literary research
has revealed. Less well documented and explored, however, is the
relationship of the Famine and related experiences (hunger,
migration, eviction, poverty, institutions and social memory) to
visual and material cultures. This book aims to explore how the
material and visual cultures of Ireland and its diaspora (including
painting, engraving, photography, devotional objects, ritual,
drama, film, television, and graphic novels) intersect with the
multiple impacts and experiences of the Famine. In tracing the
Famine's impact in Ireland, Northern Ireland, and across the
diaspora over almost two centuries, it adopts transgenerational as
well as transnational approaches to the subject of cultural memory.
Interest in the Famine has increased rather than declined since its
sesquicentenary, acquiring new relevance in the wake of Ireland's
recent economic collapse and the international contemporary refugee
crisis, with which frequent parallels have been drawn. This book
arrives in the midst of the Decade of Centenaries, the sequence of
key commemorations in Ireland and Northern Ireland that has
attracted widespread international public attention. As such, its
essays resonate with current developments in Irish cultural
history, commemoration and memory, and advances new approaches to
studies of memory and materiality.
The Great Famine radically transformed Ireland; nearly one million
people of the rural countryside died, and the eviction of farmers
led to massive emigration. The Famine encouraged anti-English,
nationalist sentiments, and this trauma is seen as pivotal in the
development of an Irish anticolonial consciousness and in the
identity formation of transatlantic Irish communities. In Relocated
Memories, Corporaal challenges the persistent assumption that the
first decades after the Great Irish Famine were marked by a
pervasive silence on the catastrophe. Discussing works by
well-known authors such as William Carleton and Anthony Trollope as
well as more obscure texts by, among others, Dillon O'Brien and
Susanna Meredith, Corporaal charts the reconfigurations of memory
in fiction across generations and national borders.
The Great Famine radically transformed Ireland; nearly one million
people of the rural countryside died, and the eviction of farmers
led to massive emigration. The Famine encouraged anti-English,
nationalist sentiments, and this trauma is seen as pivotal in the
development of an Irish anticolonial consciousness and in the
identity formation of transatlantic Irish communities. In Relocated
Memories, Corporaal challenges the persistent assumption that the
first decades after the Great Irish Famine were marked by a
pervasive silence on the catastrophe. Discussing works by
well-known authors such as William Carleton and Anthony Trollope as
well as more obscure texts by, among others, Dillon O'Brien and
Susanna Meredith, Corporaal charts the reconfigurations of memory
in fiction across generations and national borders.
The sesquicentenary of the Great Irish Famine saw the emergence of
seminal, often revisionist, scholarship addressing the impact of
the catastrophe on Ireland's economy (including its relations with
Britain) and investigating topics such as the suffering of the
rural classes, landlord and tenant relations, Poor Laws and relief
operations. The Great Irish Famine and Social Class represents a
significant new stage in Irish Famine scholarship, adopting a
broader interdisciplinary approach that includes ground-breaking
demographical, economic, cultural and literary research on poverty,
poor relief and class relations during one of Europe's most
devastating food crises. The volume incorporates a comparative
European framework, as well as exploring the issue of class in
relation to the British and North American Famine diaspora.
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