'Dancing at the crossroads' used to be an opportunity for young people to meet and enjoy
themselves on mild summer evenings in the Irish countryside until this practice was banned …

This book brings together important material from a range of sources and highlights how
government organizations, musicians, academics and commercial companies are …

The question of how to move beyond contentious pasts exercises societies across the globe.
Focusing on Northern Ireland, this book examines how historical injustices continue to haunt …

When Irish culture and economics underwent rapid changes during the Celtic Tiger Years,
Anne Enright, Colum McCann and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne began writing. Now that period of Irish …

Emma Donoghue's 2016 novel The Wonder places a young woman's refusal to eat at the
center of highly charged narratives about fasting as resistance to oppression and women's …

This paper is a critical discussion and interpretation of literary representations of the city of
Belfast with a particular concern with and focus on sectarian forms of nationalism and place …

Through institutional and public forms of environmental literacy, the literary focused practice
of ecocriticism could be considered a critical, creative, and pedagogical tool for educating …

Lucy McDiarmid begins her review of The Cambridge History of Irish Literature by reflecting
on the upholstery of Aer Lingus seats, which features quotations from James Connolly …

Bodily discourse, constantly appropriated as a symbol of Irish famine and hunger in the
wake of British maladministration of the land and its people since the Great Famine, is …

Traditional Irish literature has valorized women through idealized female stereotypes. This
sanctification was promoted to liberate their nation and retrieve their motherland from their …