Irish Studies Review, Vol. 9, No. 2 (August 2001)

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Index and Cover-page Album

Special issue: “Cinema and Television”, ed. Lance Pettitt (St Mary’s College, Strawberry Hill).
 
Contents
Articles
  • Lance Pettitt, Introduction [149]
  • Kevin Rockett, ‘From Radicalism to Conservatism: Contradictions within Fianna Fail Film Policies in the 1930s’ [155]
  • Harvey O’Brien, ‘Somewhere to Come Back to: The Filmic Journeys of John T. Davis’ [167]
  • Keith Hopper, ‘“A Gallous Story and a Dirty Deed’: Word and Image in Neil Jordan and Joe Comerford’s Traveller (1981)’ [179]
  • Ruth Barton, Kitsch as Authenticity: Irish Cinema and the Challenge to Romanticism [193]’
  • Fidelma Parley, In the Name of the Family: Masculinity and Fatherhood in Contemporary Northern Irish Films [203]’
  • Marcus Free, From the 'Other' Island to the One with “No West Side”: The Irish in British Soap and Sitcom [215]’
  • Diane Negra, The New Primitives: Irishness in Recent US Television’[229]
 
Review Articles
  • Andrew Smith, ‘Bringing Bram Stoker Back from the Margins’, reviewing Beyond Dracula: Bram Stoker’s Fiction and its Cultural Context, by William Hughes; Dracula: Sense & Nonsense, by Elizabeth Miller.
  • Bruce Stewart, reviewing New Voices in Irish Criticism by P. J. Mathews. [247]
 
Reviews / Folfkore & Mythology
  • Thomas O’Loughlin, Journeys on the Edges: The Celtic Tradition, reviewed by Ullrich Kockel.
  • Sean Ó Duinn, Where Three Streams Meet: Celtic Spirituality, reviewed by Mairead Nic Craith [251]
 

Reviews / History & Politics

  • John J. Silke, Kinsale: The Spanish Intervention in Ireland at the End of the Elizabethan Wars; Aidan Clark, The Old English in Ireland, 1625-42, and J. G. Simms, Jacobite Ireland, 1685-91, reviewed by John McGurk.
  • Cynthia O’Connor, The Pleasing Hours: The Grand Tour of James Caulfield, First Earl of Charlemont (1728-1799): Traveller, Connoisseur and Patron of the Arts, reviewed by C. D. A. Leighton.
  • Ruan O’Donnell, Aftermath: Post-rebellion Insurgency in Wicklow, 1799-1803, reviewed by Daniel J. Gahan.
  • Acts of Union: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered at University College Dublin on 24 February 2000, by Thomas Bartlett, reviewed by James Kelly.
  • Ken Houston, ed., Creators of Mathematics: The Irish Connection, reviewed by Fiacre Ó Cairbre.
  • Donald MacRaild, ed., The Great Famine and Beyond. Irish Migrants in Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, reviewed by Christine Kinealy.
  • Diane Urquhart, Women in Ulster Politics 1890-1940: A History Not Yet Told, reviewed by Louise Ryan.
  • Cathy Molohan, ed., Germany and Ireland 1945-1955: Two Nations' Friendship, reviewed by Joachim Fischer.
  • Kenneth Milne, ed., Christ Church Cathedral Dublin: A History, reviewed by Toby Bamard.
  • Craig Seaton, Northern Ireland: The Context for Conflict and for Reconciliation;Marie-Therese Fay, Mike Morrissey & Marie Smyth, Northern Ireland’s Troubles: The Human Costs, Norman Porter, Rethinking Unionism: An Alternative Vision for Northern Ireland; Porter, ed., The Republican Ideal: Current Perspectives, reviewed by Patrick Maume.
  • Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People, by Susan McKay, reviewed by Cahal McLaughlin.
 
Reviews / Literature
  • The Man Who Was Dorian Gray, by Jerusha Hull McCormack, reviewed by Roger Luckhurst.[270]
  • Interpreting Synge: Essays from the Synge Summer School 1991-2000, ed. Nicholas Grene, reviewed by Simon Trezise.
  • “Ulysses”: En-gendered Perspectives, by Kimberley J. Devlin and Marilyn Reizbaum, reviewed by Richard Brown.
  • Semicolonial Joyce, ed. by Derek Attridge & Marjorie Howes, reviewed by Patrick Parrinder.
  • The Great War in Irish Poetry: W: B. Yeats to Michael Longley, by Fran Brearton, reviewed by Sarah Ferris.
  • J. G. Farrell: The Critical Grip, ed. Ralph J .Crane, reviewed by Glenn Hooper.
  • Writing in the Irish Republic: Literature, Culture, Politics 1949-1999, ed. Ray Ryan, reviewed by Shaun Richards.
  • Thomas Kinsella: The Peppercanister Poems, by Derval Tubridy, reviewed by Justin Quinn.
  • Collected Poems, by Richard Murphy, reviewed by Justin Quinn.
  • Brigid, by Jill Blee, reviewed by Kristine Byron.
  • Crazy Man Michael, by Jim Lusby, reviewed by John Newsinger.
  • Double Visions: Women and Men in Modem and Contemporary Irish Fiction, by James M. Cahalan, reviewed by Kim Wallace.
 
Media & Cultural Studies
  • W. A. Maguire, A Century in Focus: Photography and Photographers in the North of Ireland 1839-1939,reviewed by Hilary Pyle. [285]
  • Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, The Songs of Elizabeth Cronin: Irish Traditional Singer, reviewed by Maura Cronin.
  • Sinead O’Connor, All That You Can't Leave Behind and Faith and Courage, by U2, reviewed by Gerry Smyth.
  • Celtic Identity and the British Image, by Murray G. H. Pittock, reviewed by Willy Maley.

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