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The Cambridge companion to modern Irish culture / edited by Joe Cleary and Claire Connolly.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge companions to culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization.
- Ireland--Civilization--20th century--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Ireland.
- Ireland--Civilization--19th century--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 363 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Companion to modern Irish culture
- Modern Irish culture
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- This Companion provides an authoritative introduction to the historical, social and stylistic complexities of modern Irish culture. Readers will be introduced to Irish culture in its widest sense and helped to find their way through the cultural and theoretical debates that inform our understanding of modern Ireland. The range of topics covered will enable a comprehensive understanding of Irish culture, and the new essays by acknowledged experts, together with the chronology and guides to further reading, make this an invaluable guide to the shaping of modern Ireland.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Ireland and modernity / Joe Cleary 1
- Part I Cultural politics
- 2 The survival of the Union / Alvin Jackson 25
- 3 Language, ideology and national identity / Gearoid O Tuathaigh 42
- 4 Religion, identity, state and society / Tom Inglis 59
- 5 Republicanism, Nationalism and Unionism: changing contexts, cultures and ideologies / Liam O'Dowd 78
- 6 Irish feminism / Siobhan Kilfeather 96
- 7 Migration and diaspora / Mary J. Hickman 117
- 8 The cultural effects of the Famine / Kevin Whelan 137
- Part II Cultural practices and cultural forms
- 9 Modernism and the Irish revival / Emer Nolan 157
- 10 Poetry in Ireland / Bernard O'Donoghue 173
- 11 Irish sport / Alan Bairner 190
- 12 Projecting the nation: cinema and culture / Luke Gibbons 206
- 13 Folk culture / Diarmuid O Giollain 225
- 14 Irish prose fiction / Padraigin Riggs, Norman Vance 245
- 15 Irish music / Lillis O Laoire 267
- 16 Modern architecture and national identity in Ireland / Hugh Campbell 285
- 17 The visual arts in Ireland / Fintan Cullen 304
- 18 Irish theatre / Christopher Morash 322.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 052182009X
- 0521526299
- OCLC:
- 55588057
- Online:
- Publisher description
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