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Across A Crowded Room, Adrian Rice Aug 2014

Across A Crowded Room, Adrian Rice

Irish Studies South

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Feeling Into Words: Remembering Seamus Heaney, Geraldine Higgins Aug 2014

Feeling Into Words: Remembering Seamus Heaney, Geraldine Higgins

Irish Studies South

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1939 And The Road Beyond Coleraine: An Introductory Meditation, Thomas D. Redshaw Aug 2014

1939 And The Road Beyond Coleraine: An Introductory Meditation, Thomas D. Redshaw

Irish Studies South

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"Out Of The Marvellous," Into The Marvellous, In Memoriam: Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), Roslyn Blyn-Ladrew Aug 2014

"Out Of The Marvellous," Into The Marvellous, In Memoriam: Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), Roslyn Blyn-Ladrew

Irish Studies South

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Crediting The Poet: What Seamus Heaney Means To Me, Eugene O’Brien Aug 2014

Crediting The Poet: What Seamus Heaney Means To Me, Eugene O’Brien

Irish Studies South

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North And South: A Calling, Natasha Trethewey Aug 2014

North And South: A Calling, Natasha Trethewey

Irish Studies South

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Amongst Women”: O’Brien, Beckett, And The Magdalen “Réamhscéal, Tiffany N. Manning Jan 2014

Amongst Women”: O’Brien, Beckett, And The Magdalen “Réamhscéal, Tiffany N. Manning

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It is hard to escape the portrayal of what twentieth century life might have been like for a penitent living in one of Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries. With its saturation in contemporary pop culture, the morality of these Irish Institutions has been called into question through blockbuster films and best-selling books. However, some believe that the many public representations of the Magdalen Laundries fail to tell the whole story. As tension surrounding Magdalen Laundries, as well as Church and State involvement in them, has continuously grown over the last couple of decades, many citizens of Ireland and, indeed, the world have …


In Fairyland Or Thereabout: The Fairies As Nationalist Symbol In Irish Literature By And After William Allingham, Cassandra M. Schell Jan 2009

In Fairyland Or Thereabout: The Fairies As Nationalist Symbol In Irish Literature By And After William Allingham, Cassandra M. Schell

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This essay is a look at a little known Irish poet, William Allingham, who invokes the fairy as a vehicle for a political change in Ireland. It offers a close reading of a few of his poems as well as historically approaches the use of fairies in the popular culture of the nineteenth century. In Chapter I, I use an historical approach to discuss the biography of William Allingham and his place in Irish literature as a poet we have neglected. I also discuss a cultural study of the portrayal and use of the fairy in the nineteenth century. This …