The Image of Irelande
Author : John Derricke
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Ireland
ISBN :
John Derricke's The Image of Irelande: with a Discoverie of Woodkarne
Author : Thomas Herron
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526147580
Book Description
John Derricke’s Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne is a key work of English print-making, Irish and English history and cultural misunderstanding. The work attests to the complexity of English and Irish relations, colonisation, military history, imperial propaganda, poetry, art, printing and the forging of identity in the early modern British Isles. The original work comprises of a lengthy poetic narrative and twelve famous woodcuts of the highest quality produced in sixteenth-century England. They also represent some of the only contemporary views of early modern Ireland on record. The sixteen interdisciplinary essays in this collection focus on the text’s political and historical meaning, print history, iconographic elements, paratexts, literary and artistic influences, and cultural archaeology. The collection will appeal to scholars of many disciplines.
'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream
Author : W. H. A. Williams
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,51 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Irish
ISBN : 9780252065514
Book Description
The image of the Irish in the United States changed drastically over time, from that of hard-drinking, rioting Paddies to genial, patriotic working-class citizens. In 'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream, William H. A. Williams traces the change in this image through more than 700 pieces of sheet music--popular songs from the stage and for the parlor--to show how Americans' opinions of Ireland and the Irish went practically from one extreme to the other. Because sheet music was a commercial item it had to be acceptable to the broadest possible song-buying public. "Negotiations" about their image involved Irish songwriters, performers, and pressured groups, on the one hand, and non-Irish writers, publishers, and audiences on the other. Williams ties the contents of song lyrics to the history of the Irish diaspora, suggesting how ethnic stereotypes are created and how they evolve within commercial popular culture.
Irish Tourism
Author : Michael Cronin
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 24,66 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781873150535
Book Description
This book is a collection of essays that examines the social, political and cultural impact of tourism on Irish society. Irish Tourism deals with both the historical experience of Irish tourism and with the contemporary influence of tourism on different areas of Irish life and cultural self-representation. The work situates the developments in Irish tourism within the broader context of globalisation and the role of tourism in a changing international order.
Twilight Together
Author : Ruth Medjber
Publisher : Random House
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1473590159
Book Description
'A moving and uplifting record of our nation's lockdown' Sunday Independent The essential book for 2020, capturing the heart-breaking and uplifting stories that made it a year we will never forget In March 2020, the arrival of Coronavirus in Ireland saw our world change overnight. We watched in shock as it spread throughout the world with devastating consequences. We stopped travelling, we worked from home, we celebrated birthdays, anniversaries and new arrivals via our screens. Many also had to grieve from a distance, isolated and alone. But the pandemic also became a time of coming together, of community spirit, of small kindnesses and boundless creativity. We saw frontline workers make extraordinary sacrifices, musicians perform from their front rooms, neighbourhood bingo and open-air film screenings. In Twilight Together Ruth Medjber has captured all of this and more. Visually stunning and deeply moving, she has photographed people all over Ireland at their front window at dusk, each with their own story to tell. Twilight Together is an extraordinary portrait of a pandemic by one of Ireland's most talented photographers and it is an important document for our times.
A View of the State of Ireland
Author : Edmund Spenser
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 1997-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780631205357
Book Description
This student edition is based on the first published text and offers an authoritative introduction, discussing the View's reception, relating it to Spenser's corpus as a whole, and summarising recent scholarship.
Art, Ireland and the Irish Diaspora
Author : Éimear O'Connor
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,20 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Art, Irish
ISBN : 9781788551496
Book Description
Art, Ireland and the Irish Diaspora reveals a labyrinth of social and cultural connections that conspired to create and sustain an image of Ireland for the nation and for the Irish diaspora between 1893 and 1939. This era saw an upsurge of interest among patrons and collectors in New York and Chicago in the 'Irishness' of Irish art, which was facilitated by gallery owners, émigrés, philanthropists, and art-world celebrities. Leading Irish art historian, Éimear O'Connor, explores the ongoing tensions between those in Ireland and the expatriate community in the US, split as they were between tradition and modernity, and between public expectation and political rhetoric, as Ireland sought to forge a post-Treaty international identity through its visual artists. Featuring a glittering cast of players including Jack. B. Yeats, George Russell (AE), Lady Gregory, and Seán Keating, and richly illustrated in colour with images from archives on both sides of the Atlantic, Art, Ireland and the Irish Diaspora presents a wealth of new research, and draws together, for the first time, a series of themes that bound the Dublin art scene with that in New York and Chicago through complex networks and contemporary publications at an extraordinary time in Ireland's history.
Sources for Modern Irish History 1534-1641
Author : R. W. Dudley Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 39,69 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521271417
Book Description
A critical analysis of the written sources for early modern Irish history.
The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture
Author : Fionnuala Dillane
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319313886
Book Description
This book elucidates the ways the pained and suffering body has been registered and mobilized in specifically Irish contexts across more than four hundred years of literature and culture. There is no singular approach to what pain means: the material addressed in this collection covers diverse cultural forms, from reports of battles and executions to stage and screen representations of sexual violence, produced in response to different historical circumstances in terms that confirm our understanding of how pain – whether endured or inflicted, witnessed or remediated – is culturally coded. Pain is as open to ongoing redefinition as the Ireland that features in all of the essays gathered here. This collection offers new paradigms for understanding Ireland’s literary and cultural history.
Strangers to that Land
Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 12,48 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780861403509
Book Description
Strangers to that Land, subtitled 'British Perceptions of Ireland from the Reformation to the Famine', is a critical anthology of English, Scottish and Welsh colonists' and travellers' accounts of Ireland and the Irish from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. It consists exclusively of eyewitness descriptions of Ireland given by writers using the English language who had never been to Ireland before and were seeing the country for the first time. Each extract, where necessary, is set in context and briefly explained. The result is a vivid, continuous record of Ireland as defined and judged by the British over a period of four centuries. In their general introduction the editors discuss the significance of these changing historical perceptions, as well as the impact upon them of literary conventions which played a part in shaping the emerging texts. It is argued that the relationship between Ireland and England within a British context constitutes a unique case study in the procedures of racial stereotyping and colonial representation, the exploration of cultural conflict and the aesthetics of travel writing. There are twenty-one contemporary illustrations
