Author: Michael Patrick Gillespie
Publisher: Syracuse University Pre
Keywords: irish, films, studies, themed, approaching, cinema, myth
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2008-12-30
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0815631936
ISBN-13: 9780815631934
For the past seventy years the discipline of film studies has widely invoked the term national cinema. Such a concept suggests a unified identity with distinct cultural narratives. As the current debate over the meaning of nation and nationalism has made thoughtful readers question the term, its application to the field of film studies has become the subject of recent interrogation. In "The Myth of an Irish Cinema", Michael Patrick Gillespie presents a groundbreaking challenge to the traditional view of filmmaking, contesting the existence of an Irish national cinema. Given the social, economi
Authors:Claire A. Culleton, Maria McGarrity,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: irish, american, literature, directions, primitive, modernism, global, new
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2008-11-15
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0230612237
ISBN-13: 9780230612235
This book scrutinizes the way modern Irish writers exploited or surrendered to primitivism, and how primitivism functions as an idealized nostalgia for the past as a potential representation of difference and connection.
Author: Morgan Llywely
Publisher: Forge Book
Keywords: irish, century, state, free, novel
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0812570804
ISBN-13: 9780812570809
1949 tells the story of Ireland’s progress as seen through the eyes of one woman, from the bitter aftermath of civil war to the controversial dawn of a modern state. Ursula Halloran, the daughter of a famous revolutionary, comes of age in the turbulent 1920s. An education in Switzerland broadens her world view, but Ireland has become a repressive Catholic state where women are second-class citizens. Married women cannot hold jobs and divorce is illegal.Fighting against the stifling constraints of church and state, Ursula forges an exciting career in the fledgling Irish radio service. Her
Author: Billy Kennedy
Publisher: Emerald House Group
Keywords: irish, chronicles, scots, carolinas, scotch
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1997-10
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 1840300116
ISBN-13: 9781840300116
The Carolina regions of the United States of America were settled in large numbers during the 18th century by tens of thousands of Ulster-Scots Presbyterians, who left their native shores for reasons of religious persecution and economic deprivation. In this third volume of the series on the hardy Scots-Irish communities who tamed the wilderness of the American frontier, journalist-author Billy Kennedy heads on a journey from the north of Ireland to the port of Charleston, South Carolina and the Carolina Piedmont, along the Great Wagon Road from Pennsylvania, through the Shenandoah Valley o
Author: David Stifter
Publisher: Syracuse University Pre
Keywords: irish, studies, beginners, sengoidelc, old
Number of Pages: 391
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0815630727
ISBN-13: 9780815630722
An introductory text to the Irish language as spoken around the eighth-century c.e., covering all aspects of the grammar in a clear and intuitive format. David Stifter’s Sengodelc (SHAN-goy-delth) provides a comprehensive introduction to Old Irish grammar and metrics. Ideally suited for use as a course text and as a guide for the independent learner, this exhaustive handbook is also an invaluable reference work for students of Indo-European philology and historical linguistics. The author?s step-by-step presentation in an engaging styles lead the novice through the idiosyncracies of th
Author: Morgan Llywely
Publisher: Tor Book
Keywords: irish, century, rebellion, novel
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1999-03-15
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0812574923
ISBN-13: 9780812574920
Ned Halloran has lost both his parents--and almost his own life--to the sinking of the Titanic . Determined to keep what little he has, he returns to his homeland in Ireland and enrolls at Saint Enda’s school in Dublin. Saint Enda’s headmaster is the renowned scholar and poet, Patrick Pearse--who is soon to gain greater fame as a rebel and patriot. Ned becomes totally involved with the growing revolution...and the sacrifices it will demand. Through Ned’s eyes, 1916 examines the Irish fight for freedom--inspired by poets and schoolteachers, fueled by a desperate desire for ind
Author: Joan Mathieu
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
Keywords: irish, studies, journey, zulu
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 1999-11
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0815606133
ISBN-13: 9780815606130
An excellent introduction to Irish culture for anyone traveling to Ireland, "Zulu" is a lyrical and fresh look at emigration from both sides of the Atlantic--over time in one small Irish town and today in New York City .
