Authors:Diarmuid Ó Giolláin, Diarmuid " Giolláin,
Publisher: Cork University Press
Keywords: irish, cultural, studies, identity, modernity, folklore, tradition
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-06
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 1859181694
ISBN-13: 9781859181690

‘Folklore’ is both subject matter and critical discourse, amateur enthusiasm and academic discipline, a resource for committed nation-builders and for local historians. As an introduction to Irish folklore from an Irish perspective, this book develops a theoretical understanding of the dynamics of folklore, and questions its role in society. There are few cultures which offer as much scope for an analysis of this sort as Ireland and the author usefully locates the Irish experience within a comparative framework, using ethnography from Nordic countries and theory from Latin America. Irish F

Author: Alan Matthews
Publisher: Cork University Press
Keywords: undercurrents, realities, myth, incomes, farm
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2000-06
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 1859182410
ISBN-13: 9781859182413

Farmers in Ireland have been protesting again recently about low farm incomes and calling for further state support. Yet farmers already receive large sums in EU and Irish state transfers to support their incomes, amounting to IR 32.4 billion per year. This amount now exceeds the value of farm income, raising the question of where this support has gone, and why are farmers complaining again? "Farm Incomes--Myths and Realities" examines current trends in farm incomes policy and shows the value of these transfers to Irish farmers and the Irish economy. It then analyzes the distrib

Author: Michael Cronin
Publisher: Cork University Press
Keywords: translation, language, travel, lines, across
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2000-06
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 185918183X
ISBN-13: 9781859181836

A radical new work aiming to redefine the relationship between travel and language, focusing on the pivotal bond of language and culture as mediated through translation.An important feature of the Twentieth century has been the enormous growth in travel and the increasing mobility of individuals and groups across societies. A largely neglected aspect of this development has been the relationship of the traveller to language. Across the Lines examines the ways in which language mediates experience across cultures. It assesses a range of travel narratives by writers such as Bruce Chatwin, Dervla

Author: Joan FitzPatrick Dean
Publisher: Cork University Press
Keywords: film, ireland, lughnasa, dancing
Number of Pages: 98
Published: 2003-10
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 1859183611
ISBN-13: 9781859183618

* Lucid and accessible style makes the series appealing to the general reader* Liberally illustrated throughout with stills from the film under discussion.* Collaboration between Cork University Press and the Film Institute of Ireland.Between the première of Brian Friel’s stage play "Dancing at Lughnasa" in 1990 and Pat O’Connor’s cinematic adaptation in 1998, Ireland experienced seismic economic and social changes, as well as "Riverdance", "Angela’s Ashes" and an international vogue for all things Irish. Set in 1936, "Dancing at Lughnasa", as both film and play, imagines an ana

Author: David Pierce
Publisher: Cork University Press
Keywords: reader, century, twentieth, writing, irish
Number of Pages: 1400
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1859182089
ISBN-13: 9781859182086

With five Nobel Prize-winners, seven Pulitzer Prize-winners and two Booker Prize-winning novelists, modern Irish writing has contributed something special and permanent to our understanding of the twentieth century." Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century" is designed to provide a useful, comprehensive and pleasurable introduction to modern Irish literature in a single volume. Organized chronologically by decade, this anthology provides the reader with a unique sense of the development and richness of Irish writing and of the society it reflected. It embraces all forms of writing, not o

Author: Kevin Barry
Publisher: Cork University Press
Keywords: film, ireland, dead
Number of Pages: 98
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 1859182852
ISBN-13: 9781859182857

In a letter to his brother in 1906, James Joyce confessed: ’Sometimes thinking of Ireland it seems to me that I have been unnecessarily harsh. I have not been just to its beauty’. One reason for the composition of The Dead in 1907 was to compensate for this injustice and to add a new and quite different conclusion to his collection of short stories, Dubliners. Why Joyce felt compelled to change his view of Ireland, and how his narrative technique evolved to accommodate this change, becomes one of the focal points for this illuminating study. Furthermore, why John Huston felt compel

Author: Feargal Cochrane
Publisher: Cork University Press
Keywords: politics, agreement, irish, unionism, unionist, anglo
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2001-10-15
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 1859182593
ISBN-13: 9781859182598

In 1997 Feargal Cochrane provided the first comprehensive account of unionist politics from the Anglo-Irish Agreement through to the forum elections and multiparty talks of July 1996. In this new edition of Unionist Politics and the Politics of Unionism, an extra chapter takes the story forward from 1997 until the UUP leadership challenge of March 2000. The analysis concentrates on the trials and tribulations of unionist politics throughout this period, concentrating on the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) of 10 April 1998 and its faltering implementation. The chapter ends with some observations co