Browsing Department of English Language and Literature by Title
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The Question of Irish Identity in the Writings of W. B. Yeats and James Joyce
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Reading and writing at university – raising genre awareness as initiation into a discourse community (Pre-published version)
(Reading Association of Ireland, 2003)The theoretical concepts of 'genre' and 'discourse community' will be drawn on in this paper to evolve a theoretical model that we hope to apply to the context of academic writing and to attainment at third level. Genre ... -
Recharging the Canon: Towards a Literary Redefinition of Irishness
(Edwin Mellen Press, 2005)By adding volumes four and five as a supplement to its anthology, Field Day was both acknowledging its own attenuation of a tradition, and at the same time, valuing at another dimension, the very plurality of traditions ... -
Reflections on (of) nationalism
(Kairos, 1998)This project attempts to define the epistemological structure of nationalism and to suggest a theoretical model through which this can be done. I would argue that this theorization will apply to nationalism per se; however, ... -
Reflections, Misrecognitions, Messianisms and Identifications: Towards an Epistemology of Irish Nationalism
(ABEI Journal: Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, 2001)This essay examines the narrative source of Irish Republican ideology. By contrasting the nationalism and republicanism of the United Irishmen and the IRB of 1916, the contradictions and misrecognitions inherent in ... -
Reimagining Tolkien: a post-colonial perspective on the Lord of the Rings
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2012)This thesis analyses J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings from a post-colonial perspective. An Oxford don and philologist, who was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa but spent the majority of his life in Britain, Tolkien ... -
Reinventing Ireland through a French prism (Pre-published version)
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Reinventing Ireland: culture, society and the global economy by Peadar Kirby, Luke Gibbons and Michael Cronin
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 2002) -
Representation and Performance: Dancer (2003)
(Irish Academic Press, 2011)Introducing the work of John Banville, Derek Hand invokes the protracted genealogy of the novel in locating the formal and thematic loci of Banville’s fictions. Hand alludes to Harold Bloom’s recent thoughts on the ... -
Research in the teaching of speaking (Pre-published version)
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Resurrection: the return of the Gothic home in contemporary Irish art (1990-2015)
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015)This thesis investigates the resurrection of the Gothic home as a powerful symbol in contemporary Irish fine art practice from 1990 to 2015, figuring large in the work of important Irish artists Aideen Barry, Alice Maher, ... -
Review of 'Brendan Kennelly: Behind the smile'
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 2015) -
Review of 'Engaging modernity: Readings of Irish politics, culture and literature at the turn of the century'
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 2004) -
Review of 'Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing: Volume 3, Number 1, Spring/Summer, 2005 by Chris Agee, Cathal Ó Searcaigh and Sean Mac Aindreasa'
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 2006) -
Review of 'Navigations: Collected Irish Essays 1976-2006 by Richard Kearney'
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 2007) -
A review of 'New Collected Poems' by Derek Mahon (Pre-published version)
(AEDEI [Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses], 2012) -
Review of 'Postcolonial Theory in Irish Drama from 1800-2000 by Dawn Duncan'
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 2004) -
Review of 'Recoveries: Neglected Episodes in Irish Cultural History 1860-1912 by John Wilson Foster'
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 2003) -
Review of 'The Colonial Conan Doyle: British Imperialism, Irish Nationalism and the Gothic by Catherine Wynne'
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 2003)