Browsing Department of English Language and Literature by Title
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From prosperity to austerity: a socio-cultural critique of the Celtic Tiger and its aftermath (Pre-published version)
(Manchester University Press, 2014) -
Gable-ends and Che Guevara: political murals and postcolonial ethics
(Cork University Press, 2006) -
The genesis of the Hunter Figure: A study of the dialectic between the biographical and the aesthetic in the early writings of Hunter S. Thompson
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2018)Hunter S. Thompson revolutionised American journalism in the 1970’s with the publication of ‘The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved’, in Scanlan’s Monthly, and ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’, in Rolling Stone magazine. ... -
Gothic ‘Un-representations’ of Terror in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse -5.
(Binghamton University, 2007) -
The grammars of English (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2018) -
The gravity of oppositions: the life and art of Thomas Hardy
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)A narrative derived from the life and work of a writer can offer deeper insight than looking at his work as a separate study. To concentrate biographically on the superficial details of Hardy’s life and times without ... -
Guests (Geists) of a Nation: A Heimlich (Unheimlich) Maneuver
(New Hibernia Review, 2007)This chapter examines Frank O’Connor’s story ‘Guests of a Nation’, and looks at how guests often become ghosts in Irish history. The essay then looks at the ghosts of Irish republican ideology, Pearse and Tone, and goes ... -
Guests of a nation; geists of a nation
(Center for Irish Studies (University of St. Thomas), 2007) -
Hannah Lynch and narratives of the Irish literary revival
(Center for Irish Studies (University of St. Thomas), 2016) -
Hurry up baby son all the boys is finished their breakfast: A socio-pragmatic analysis of Irish settled and Traveller family discourse
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2010)The present study utilises an integrative theoretical approach that combines variational pragmatics and community of practice to examine two corpora representing spoken language collected in the home/family environment: ... -
'I know something now of my Irish subjects': Castle Rackrent and Maria Edgeworth's imagined communities
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"Identities in the writer complexus": Joyce, Europe and Irish identities (Pre-published version)
(Rodopi Press, 2003)This chapter examines forms of negative identity in terms of two intersecting verbal axes: Joyce‟s own term, gnomon and Jacques Derrida‟s term hauntology. Both terms gesture towards forms of negative identity which are the ... -
Imagi-nation in Brendan Kennelly's "Cromwell"
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 2002)