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Background and Objectives: Associations of young-old age with successful aging have contributed to relegating negatively perceived aspects of aging to very old age. This has prompted the formation of the social imaginary of the fourth... more
Esta pesquisa analisa o romance norte-irlandês The International (1999), de Glenn Patterson, que se passa em um só dia no princípio dos Troubles, como denomina-se o Conflito da Irlanda do Norte. O narrador em primeira pessoa é o... more
By examining portrayals of male homosociality in Sally Rooney's novels, the book documents how male relationships are formed, challenged, and often disavowed and the profound negative effects this can have for the wellbeing of men. The... more
Há 25 anos, a Irlanda do Norte buscava colocar em prática o Acordo de Paz que encerrou os 30 anos de violência dos Troubles. Já na literatura, autores como Glenn Patterson, revisitavam a história e questionavam a narrativa fixa proposta.... more
Paula Meehan's Painting Rain conveys the socio-cultural impacts of the Celtic Tiger's collapse through an eco-feminist framework. Within this framework, environmental, gender, and class inequities are intimately intertwined. The poetry... more
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The thesis focuses on Hugo Hamilton’s 2010 novel, Hand in the Fire, and, in particular, on its protagonist, Vid Cosic, and the dynamics of hostili
TV mini-series and international hit Normal People (2020) introduced the character of Connell Waldron to the world. Connell’s character was not only well-received but he also created a following of his own. From his clothes, to his looks,... more
could well make his own the concluding line by Seamus Heaney in "Personal Helicon": "I rhyme / To see myself, to set the darkness echoing". 2 Much of Mahon's poetry is indeed, in his own words, "a pure, self-referential act" ("Sunday... more
This book of essays has emerged from a symposium organised in September 2006 by Justin Quinn in the Princess Grace Library in Monaco where a number of academics, and poet academics were brought together to discuss the issue of Irish... more
Although it is hard to challenge the claim that alcohol can be considered inherent in Irish culture, the common perception of the fact often feeds on clichés. What helps understand this question is Irish literature. On the one hand, it... more
Elke D'hoker, Hedwig Schwall and Raphaël Ingelbien (eds.), Irish Women Writers. New Critical Perspectives. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 255-267.
Through the juxtaposition of genres from the ninth century to the present, Geofeminism contends that contemporary Irish and diasporic authors and artistists develop an anthropocenic aesthetics in an effort to re-territorialize... more
This study analyses how the migrant experience is reflected in the geography of Hugo Hamilton's work of fiction entitled _Hand in the Fire_ (2010). The novel is told from the point of view of Vid, a Serbian immigrant who is trying to... more
Meehan’s work acknowledges a pervading sense of rupture between past and present, ancestral knowledge and rational modernity. An important aspect of her poetry is to draw our attention towards the perils that a global world may present... more
In this age of globalization, interracial and cross-cultural encounters have become common aspects of everyday life. This paper aims to examine how Irish writer Paula Meehan engages in this global discourse of interculturality by... more
This article stresses the importance of the local in Paula Meehan’s work, showing how her perception of Irishness is firmly informed, at its heart, by a specific cultural history: that of her childhood, her (male and female) ancestors and... more
This essay deciphers the various ways in which Irish poet Dorothy Molloy subversively talks about rape and domestic violence, through the prism of religion, marriage, and the family.
This book shows that Shakespeare continues to influence contemporary Irish literature, through postcolonial, dramaturgical, epistemological and narratological means. International critics examine a range of contemporary writers including... more
Review of Roddy Doyle's novel, The Guts.