Browsing English Language and Literature (Peer-reviewed publications) by Title
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Messianism or Messianicity?: Remembering Revolution and the Shaping of Irish Nationalism
(Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011) -
Mobile technology and the actuvirtuali artifactual subject
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Modernity and postmodernity in a Franco-Irish context (Pre-published version)
(Peter Lang, 2008) -
More than a language … no more of a Language’: Merriman, Heaney and the Metamorphoses of Translation
(Irish University Review, 2005)This essay examines transformative force of translation, by reading Merriman through the refractive lens of Seamus Heaney’s The Midnight Verdict, the juxtaposition of Merriman’s text with that of classical tragedy, itself ... -
A Nation Once Again Towards an Epistemology of the Republican Imaginaire
(University College Dublin Press, 2003)The epistemological structure of Irish republican ideology is examined through the theoretical perspective of Jacques Lacan. This paper extrapolates this position into a societal and group matrix. The Lacanian imaginary ... -
Negotiating the self – the spectral mobile subject (Pre-published version)
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'No longer afraid’ Michael Hartnett’s poems to younger women
(Four Courts Press, 2006) -
North: The Politics of Plurality
(Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing, 1999)This essay will offer a theoretical reading both of North, and its critics; it will also analyse the criticisms of North in terms of its speaking with the voice of the tribe. I hope to demonstrate that, in fact, what is ... -
“Only connect”: Irish women’s voices, Latin America & the Irish women’s writing network
(The Society for Irish Latin American Studies, 2018)This essay offers a preliminary sketch of the recent critical attention given to Irish women and the literary interfaces between Ireland and Latin America (e.g. travel writers, immigrant or diasporic writers, and those ... -
Outside in the theory machine: Ireland in the world of post-colonial studies
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 2003) -
Passages in Time Traversed, Passages in Text Unwritten: A Theoretical Approach to Martin Amis's Time's Arrow
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009) -
Passion and Arrogance: Poetic Craft and Topographies of Remembrance in the Work of Michael Hartnett
(Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2005)In his seminal study, Oral Tradition as History, Jan Vansina argues that landscape is properly viewed as a layered and richly textured depository of both individual and communal memory. The landscape is implicated in the ... -
The Philistines as scapegoats: narratives and myths in the invention of ancient Israel and modern critical theory
(Edinburgh University Press, 2004)The Philistines have, for centuries, suffered under the weight of their relentlessly negative portrayal in the book of the Old Testament.From Goliath to Delilah, they have personified the intrinsically evil other in the ... -
The Place of Writing: Place, Poetry, Politics in the Writing of Seamus Heaney
(Hermathena,Trinity College Dublin, 1998)This chapter examines Heaney’s use of classical imagery as a literary device through which he can address issues of political and cultural identity in Northern Ireland. It looks at heaney’s prose, early poetry and some ... -
Post-colonialism, multi-culturalism, structuralism, feminism, post-modernism and so on so forth’ – vague language in academic discourse, a comparative analysis of form, function and context (Pre-published version)
(John Benjamins, 2008)The use of vague language is one of the most common features of everyday spoken English. Speakers regularly use vague expressions to project shared knowledge (e.g., pens, books, and that sort of thing) as well as to make ... -
Postcolonial Passages: Migration and Cinematic Form in Michael Haneke’s "Hidden" and Alan Gilsenan’s "Zulu 9"
(Taylor and Francis, 2011)This essay examines two recent cinematic productions from France and Ireland, respectively: Michael Haneke’s Hidden and Alan Gilsenan’s Zulu 9. These two films are considered comparatively in terms of migration, postcolonial ... -
Pragmatics (Pre-published version)
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The pragmatics of interlanguage
(ediPUCRS, 2017)Research in pragmatics has evolved from its beginnings with different theoretical focuses, interfacing with cognition, communication and formal grammar, and thus making its definition quite difficult. Kasper (1996) defines ... -
The pragmatics of Irish English (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 2011)The use of English in Ireland shows specific features which contribute to its unique profile. -
The pragmatics of the be + after + V-ing construction in Irish English (Pre-published version)
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2009)This paper looks at a well-documented form in Irish English, ‘be after + Verb-ing’ (e.g. ‘He's after forgetting to pay her’) which roughly equates to the present perfect aspect in Standard English. The structure, a calque ...