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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 ...
A lot done, more to do – Barthes, Bertie and the facteur poujade
(Peter Lang, 2004)
Ireland in Theory: the Influence of French Theory on Irish Cultural and Societal Development
(Peter Lang, 2004)
This essay argues that the advent of French literary and cultural theory, specifically the work of Barthes, Foucault, Derrida and Lacan, has been responsible for some of the accelerated social changes that Ireland has ...
Fanon's one big idea: Ireland and postcolonial studies
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2004)
Postcolonial theory has been, and remains, one of the dominant modes of literary and cultural criticism within the broader discourse of Irish Studies. This thesis will provide a summary theoretical interrogation of the ...
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)
The Subject of Poetry and the Subject of Theory
(Nordic Journal of Irish Studies Special Issue Contemporary Irish Poetry, 2004)
This essay looks at three poems by Seamus Heaney in the light of Jacques Lacan’s theories of the subject. The type of subjectivity that is revealed in the poems is analysed, looking at Heaney’s early poems ‘Digging’ and ...
Like the wise virgins and all that jazz’ – using a corpus to examine vague language and shared knowledge
(Language and Computers, 2004)
This paper will use a corpus to explore vague categorisation (e.g. prostitutes, sailors and the like) in a specific context where the participants are strangers, but where they share the same socio-cultural reference points ...
The Limerick corpus of Irish English: design, description and application
(Irish Association for applied Linguistics, 2004)
This paper describes an on-going corpus development and application project at the Mary
Immaculate College and the University of Limerick, Ireland. The Limerick Corpus of
Irish English is a one-million word corpus of ...
The anxiety of influence: Heaney and Yeats and the place of writing (Pre-published version)
(Nordic Journal of Irish Studies, 2004)
This essay compares and contrasts the writing of William Butler Yeats and Seamus Heaney in terms of their respective enunciations of place. Both writers have a pluralist and emancipatory sense of place, and real places and ...
'Because she was a girl': Gender identity and the postcolonial in James Joyce's 'Eveline'
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 2004)