Browsing English Language and Literature (Peer-reviewed publications) by Title
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'Because she was a girl': Gender identity and the postcolonial in James Joyce's 'Eveline'
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‘Belief shifts’: Ireland’s referendum and the journey from gemeinschaft to gesellschaft (Pre-print version)
(Manchester University Press, 2017-03)I would begin this chapter with two pieces of narrative: one from fantasy literature and one from recent political discourse. The fantasy writer Terry Pratchett wrote a book in his Discworld series about religion, gods and ... -
'Blitzophrenia': Brendan Kennelly's post-colonial vision.
(Irish University Review, 2003) -
'The Boat has Moved': The Catholic Church, Conflations and the Need for Critique
(Columba Press, 2011) -
The Body as Ethical Synecdoche in the Writing of Seamus Heaney
(Irish Academic Press, 2006)This essay examines the imaginative use of images of the violently abused body in the writing of Seamus Heaney. Looking at The Cure at Troy and The Burial at Thebes, this essay also looks at real bodies – victims of the ... -
The Body Politic: The Ethics of Responsibility and the Responsibility of Ethics
(Oxford University Press, 2008)This chapter examines Heaney’s translations of Antigone in terms of its being a vehicle for an ethical interrogation of the laws and loyalties and of the contrast between the loyalty to one’s tribe and a broader intersubjective ... -
‘Both more than a language and no more of a language’: Michael Hartnett and the Politics of Translation.
(Four Courts Press, 2003)This essay looks at the politics of translation through a specific focus on the poetry, in Irish and in English, of Michael Hartnett. It suggests a politics of translation that is emancipatory and creative, and deconstructs ... -
Building a corpus to represent a variety of a language (Pre-published version)
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C.S. Lewis: An Irish Writer (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2010-02-10)This article examines the effect of C.S. Lewis's Irish background on his work. It attempts to contradict the assumption that this Belfast-born writer should be included in the English and not the Irish canon. It emphasises ... -
Can English provide a framework for Spanish response tokens? (Pre-published version)
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2013)This paper investigates the question of whether response items in Spanish can be analysed using frameworks developed for the study of similar items in English. Data comes from the Spanish corpus COREC, the Corpus Oral de ... -
‘Can excrement be art … if not, why not’?: Joyce’s aesthetic theory and the flux of consciousness (Pre-print version)
(Cork University Press, 2014) -
A case study in language teacher education (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 2016) -
Competencies explored and exposed: Grammar, lexis, communication and the notion of levels
(Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2012) -
Complementary perspectives on hedging behaviour in family discourse: The analytical synergy of variational pragmatics and corpus linguistics (Pre-published version)
(John Benjamins, 2011)This paper argues that corpus linguistics offers a methodology which benefits variational pragmatic analysis in a number of ways. Corpus linguistic tools such as word frequency lists allow the researcher to construct a ... -
Conflict in corpora: Investigating family conflict sequences using a corpus pragmatic approach (Pre-published version)
(John Benjamins, 2018)The analysis of conflict in family discourse has often been characterised by ethnographic approaches and/or fine-grained analysis of unique conflict episodes. This article, by contrast, uses a c.175,000-word spoken corpus ... -
Connecting Bits and Pieces- Seamus Heaney: Electric Light
(Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing, 2002)This review essay examines the recurrence of different themes in Seamus Heaney’s Collection Electric Light. It retraces influence of T.S. Eliot in the book and also the ongoing preoccupation with classical references. The ... -
Connecting voices: an introduction to Irish women writers' collaborations and networks, 1880–1940 (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2023-07)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 ...