Cultural Perspectives on Globalisation and Ireland

Cultural Perspectives on Globalisation and Ireland
Title Cultural Perspectives on Globalisation and Ireland PDF eBook
Author Eamon Maher
Publisher Peter Lang
Pages 264
Release 2009
Genre History
ISBN 9783039118519

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In the space of a few short decades, Ireland has become one of the most globalised societies in the Western world. The full ramifications of this transformation for traditional Irish communities, religious practice, economic activity, as well as literature and the arts, are as yet unknown. What is known is that Ireland's largely unthinking embrace of globalisation has at times had negative consequences. Unlike some other European countries, Ireland has eagerly and sometimes recklessly grasped the opportunities for material advancement afforded by the global project. This collection of essays, largely the fruit of two workshops organised under the auspices of the Humanities Institute of Ireland at University College Dublin and the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in the Institute of Technology, Tallaght, explores how globalisation has taken such a firm hold on Irish society and provides a cultural perspective on the phenomenon. The book is divided into two sections. The first examines various manifestations of globalisation in Irish society whereas the second focuses on literary representations of globalisation. The contributors, acknowledged experts in the areas of cultural theory, religion, sociology and literature, offer a panoply of viewpoints of Ireland's interaction with globalisation.

Irish Tourism

Irish Tourism
Title Irish Tourism PDF eBook
Author Michael Cronin
Publisher Channel View Publications
Pages 304
Release 2003-01-01
Genre Travel
ISBN 9781873150535

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This book is a collection of essays that examines the social, political and cultural impact of tourism on Irish society. Irish Tourism deals with both the historical experience of Irish tourism and with the contemporary influence of tourism on different areas of Irish life and cultural self-representation. The work situates the developments in Irish tourism within the broader context of globalisation and the role of tourism in a changing international order.

Irish Modernism

Irish Modernism
Title Irish Modernism PDF eBook
Author Edwina Keown
Publisher Peter Lang
Pages 264
Release 2010
Genre Art, Irish
ISBN 9783039118946

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An examination of the emergence, reception and legacy of modernism in Ireland. Engaging with the ongoing re-evaluation of regional and national modernisms, the essays collected here reveal both the importance of modernism to Ireland, and that of Ireland to modernism. This collection introduces fresh perspectives on modern Irish culture that reflect new understandings of the contradictory and contested nature of modernism itself.--

Contemporary Irish Theatre

Contemporary Irish Theatre
Title Contemporary Irish Theatre PDF eBook
Author Charlotte McIvor
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 358
Release
Genre
ISBN 3031550129

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Community Politics and the Peace Process in Contemporary Northern Irish Drama

Community Politics and the Peace Process in Contemporary Northern Irish Drama
Title Community Politics and the Peace Process in Contemporary Northern Irish Drama PDF eBook
Author Eva Urban
Publisher Peter Lang
Pages 314
Release 2011
Genre English drama
ISBN 9783034301435

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This book examines theatre within the context of the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process, with reference to a wide variety of plays, theatre productions and community engagements within and across communities. The author clarifies both the nature of the social and political vision of a number of major contemporary Northern Irish dramatists and the manner in which this vision is embodied in text and in performance. The book identifies and celebrates a tradition of playwrights and drama practitioners who, to this day, challenge and question all Northern Irish ideologies and propose alternative paths. The author's analysis of a selection of Northern Irish plays, written and produced over the course of the last thirty years or so, illustrates the great variety of approaches to ideology in Northern Irish drama, while revealing a common approach to staging the conflict and the peace process, with a distinct emphasis on utopian performatives and the possibility of positive change.

The Gun and Irish Politics

The Gun and Irish Politics
Title The Gun and Irish Politics PDF eBook
Author Raita Merivirta
Publisher Peter Lang
Pages 210
Release 2009
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9783039118885

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In the 1990s, Irish society was changing and becoming increasingly international due to the rise of the 'Celtic Tiger'. At the same time, the ongoing peace process in Northern Ireland also fuelled debates on the definition of Irishness, which in turn seemed to call for a critical examination of the birth of the Irish State, as well as a rethinking and re-assessment of the nationalist past. Neil Jordan's Michael Collins (1996), the most commercially successful and talked-about Irish film of the 1990s, was a timely contributor to this process. In providing a large-scale representation of the 1916-1922 period, Michael Collins became the subject of critical and popular controversy, demonstrating that cinema could play a part in this cultural reimagining of Ireland. Locating the film in both its historical and its cinematic context, this book explores the depiction of events in Michael Collins and the film's participation in the process of reimagining Irishness through its public reception. The portrayal of the key figures of Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera comes under special scrutiny as the author assesses this pivotal piece of Irish history on screen.

Back to the Future of Irish Studies

Back to the Future of Irish Studies
Title Back to the Future of Irish Studies PDF eBook
Author Maureen O'Connor
Publisher Peter Lang
Pages 366
Release 2010
Genre Ireland
ISBN 9783034301411

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This Festschrift for Professor Tadhg Foley of the National University of Ireland, Galway, who retired in 2009, gathers together international contributors in the fields of poetry, politics and academia to honour this great man's life and work. Professor Foley has not only been central in the development of Irish Studies and Colonial/Postcolonial Studies in Ireland and in the United States, but he has also enjoyed a long career as convivial host in his thatched cottage in Salthill, Galway. He remains one of the most popular and beloved figures in Irish academia. Among the eminent scholars included in the volume are Terry Eagleton, Robert Young, Penny Boumelha, David Lloyd, Luke Gibbons, Joep Leerssen and Maud Ellmann. The book is further enriched by poets Bernard O'Donoghue, Louis de Paor, Rita Ann Higgins, Michael D. Higgins and Tom Duddy. This collection is a rare and distinctive gathering of true and resonant voices, offering a unique portrait of late twentieth-century Irish literary and academic culture and its interplay with the United States.