English Language and Literature (Peer-reviewed publications)https://dspace.mic.ul.ie/handle/10395/232024-03-28T12:19:15Z2024-03-28T12:19:15ZConnecting voices: an introduction to Irish women writers' collaborations and networks, 1880–1940 (Pre-published version)https://dspace.mic.ul.ie/handle/10395/31882023-12-14T03:00:24Z2023-07-01T00:00:00ZConnecting voices: an introduction to Irish women writers' collaborations and networks, 1880–1940 (Pre-published version)
Collaborations and networks are both the modus operandi and focus of investigation in this Special Issue on Irish women writers between 1880 and 1940. This introductory essay sets the scene for the discussions and investigations that follow: we theorise the importance of collaboration and networks for understanding Irish women's writing and publishing, and highlight how contributors draw on extensive archival research that enables the tracing of the intersecting nodes, webs, and relationships between collaborations and networks. The Special Issue platforms the study of Irish women within collaborative sibling, spousal and other partnerships and within the context of movements, organisations, and networks. Our co-authored introduction, a product of our own feminist collaborative approach developed during the project, asserts that as the process of recovery of Irish women's writing continues, the collaborative and networked aspects of women's cultural productions become more central and significant. Their retrieval demands a suite of methodologies alongside a collective approach that pools resources, insights, and knowledge networks.
We would like to express our gratitude to all our invited peer-reviewers for their generous and timely feedback on these Special Issue essays. Special thanks to Margaret Kelleher who, despite significant time pressures, agreed to review our introductory essay to this Special Issue. The essays collected here are drawn from our 2021 Online Symposium, Collaborations and Networks (hosted by Mary Immaculate College, Limerick). We would like to thank English Studies editor, Chris Louttit, for generously supporting our Networks and Collaborations Special Issue from concept through to production. We also wish to acknowledge and thank Sophie van Os, valued postgraduate assistant and member of the IWWN, whose own networks forged our first links with English Studies.
2023-07-01T00:00:00ZLost and found in the archives: Hannah Lynch and Dimitrios Vikélas Dublin, Athens, Paris: literary crossings and collaborations (Pre-published version)https://dspace.mic.ul.ie/handle/10395/31872023-12-14T03:00:27Z2023-11-01T00:00:00ZLost and found in the archives: Hannah Lynch and Dimitrios Vikélas Dublin, Athens, Paris: literary crossings and collaborations (Pre-published version)
This essay illuminates a late nineteenth-century literary connection between Ireland and Greece, also revealing hitherto unexplored layers of the vibrant fin-de-siecle salon cultures in Paris and related literary and artistic networks. As a transnational and interdisciplinary collaboration, the essay maps a process of archival discovery in the National Library of Greece, Athens: a significant cache of letters from Hannah Lynch, Irish New Woman, Ladies' Land League activist, author of a truly international and diverse body of travel writing, cultural commentary and fiction, to Dimitrios Vikelas, iconic figure of nineteenth-century Greece. The discovery of Lynch's significant textual and photographic presence in the archive amassed by Vikelas, man of letters and scholar, translator, novelist, philanthropist and founding President of the International Olympic Committee, is significant for several reasons: Lynch's correspondence reveals further details that flesh out the biography of this marginalised writer; the letters also offer insights into the struggles of a "woman of letters" in the late nineteenth-century literary and publishing landscape, documenting where articles are published and sometimes the remuneration; finally, letters in the Vikelas archive from Lynch and those who were part of their shared Paris-centred intellectual networks foreground patronage, collaboration, friendship and underpinning salon culture.
2023-11-01T00:00:00ZPrincipled pattern curation to guide data-driven learning designhttps://dspace.mic.ul.ie/handle/10395/31012023-06-20T09:20:07Z2022-08-06T00:00:00ZPrincipled pattern curation to guide data-driven learning design
Insights from corpus linguistics (CL) have informed language learning and materials design, among many other areas. An important nexus between CL and language learning is the use of Data-Driven Learning (DDL), which draws on the use of corpus data in the classroom and which brings opportunities for inductive language discovery. Within the ethos of DDL, learners are encouraged to discover patterns of language and, in so doing, foster more complex cognitive processes such as making inferences. While many studies on DDL concur on the success of this approach, it is still perceived as a marginal practice. Its success so far has been largely limited to intermediate to advanced level learners in higher education settings (Boulton and Cobb 2017). This paper aims to offer guiding principles for how DDL might have wider application across all levels (not just at Intermediate and above) and to set out exemplars for their application at different levels of proficiency. Based on insights from second language acquisition (SLA) and learner corpus research (LCR), the focus of this paper will be on identifying principles for the curation of language patterns that are differentiated for stage of learning. In particular, we are keen to build on recent and important work which looks at SLA through the lens of the usage-based (UB) models (that is, models that view language as being acquired through the use of and exposure to language).
Special Issue in Honor of Dr. Randi Reppen; Guest Edited by Tove Larsson, Shelley Staples, Jesse Egbert
2022-08-06T00:00:00ZHolding on to ‘rites, rhythms and rituals’: Mike McCormack’s homage to small town Irish life and death (Pre published)https://dspace.mic.ul.ie/handle/10395/30502022-05-17T02:00:48Z2018-07-31T00:00:00ZHolding on to ‘rites, rhythms and rituals’: Mike McCormack’s homage to small town Irish life and death (Pre published)
The Goldsmith Award-winning Solar Bones is a novel focused on, and dedicated to, loss. As Marcus Conway comes to terms with his own death, he pays homage to the “rites, rhythms and rituals” that were part of his life in small town rural Ireland. The book begins with the bell ringing on All Souls Day, the day of the dead, as Marcus recounts elements of his life in one unbroken sentence. This unpunctuated account is littered with loss: the loss of blood, bodily fluids, family members, life, the Celtic Tiger, youth, and memories. In fact, author Mike McCormack told The Irish Times, “I have no memories of writing Solar Bones,” yet the whole novel is a random collection of memories of life. It becomes a celebration of life, of the simple domestic events that make up a life, that are now lost to memories. This rural existence is something that is slipping away, and McCormack wants to commemorate that life before it is too late, even if it is already dead. As The Guardian tells us, “Marcus is a man gripped by ‘a crying sense of loneliness for my family’. We don’t quite know why until the very end of the novel, which comes both as a surprise and a confirmation of all that’s gone before.” As readers, we too are at a loss, as it is not until the final pages that we realise Marcus is already dead, and this book is his account of the life he has lost. This stream of memory and re-telling of his life is how Marcus comes to terms with the trauma of his greatest loss: his own death.
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