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

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 [241] Beyond Dracula: Bram Stoker’s Fiction and its Cultural Context by William Hughes Dracula: Sense & Nonsense by Elizabeth Miller Bruce Stewart, New Voices [247] New Voices in Irish Criticism by Po J. Mathews

REVIEWS/FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY [251]: Journeys on the Edges: The Celtic Tradition by Thomas O’Loughlin, reviewed by Ullrich Kockel Where Three Streams Meet: Celtic Spirituality by Sean 6 Duinn; reviewed by Mairead Nic Craith

REVIEWS/HISTORY & POLITICS [253] Kinsale: The Spanish Intervention in Ireland at the end of the Elizabethan Wars by John J. Silke; The Old English in Ireland, 1625-42 by Aidan Clark; Jacobite Ireland, 1685-91 by J. G. Simms; reviewed by John McGurk The Pleasing Hours: The Grand Tour of James Caulfield, First Earl of Charlemont (1728-1799), Traveller, Connoisseur and Patron of the Arts by Cynthia O’Connor; reviewed by C. D. A. Leighton Aftermath: Post-rebellion Insurgency in Wicklow, 1799-1803 by Ruan O’Donnell, reviewed by Daniel J o Gahan Acts of Union: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered at University College Dublin on 24 February 2000 by Thomas Bartlett, reviewed by James Kelly Creators of Mathematics: The Irish Connection, ed. Ken Houston, reviewed by Fiacre 6 Cairbre The Great Famine and Beyond. Irish Migrants in Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, ed. Donald MacRaild, reviewed by Christine Kinealy Women in Ulster Politics 1890-1940: A History Not Yet Told by Diane Urquhart, reviewed by Louise Ryan Germany and Ireland 1945-1955: Two Nations' Friendship by Cathy Molohan, reviewed by Joachim Fischer Christ Church Cathedral Dublin: A History, ed. Kenneth Milne, reviewed by Toby Bamard Northern Ireland: The Context for Conflict and for Reconciliation by Craig Seaton; Northern Ireland’s Troubles: The Human Costs by Marie- Therese Fay, Mike Morrissey and Marie Smyth; Rethinking Unionism: An Alternative Vision for Northern Ireland by Norman Porter; The Republican Ideal: Current Perspectives, ed. Norman Porter, reviewed by Patrick Maume Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People by Susan McKay; reviewed by Cahal McLaughlin.

REVIEWS/LITERATURE [270]: The Man Who Was Dorian Gray by Jerusha Hull McCormack, reviewed by Roger; Luckhurst 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 edited by Derek Attridge and 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. Go Farrell: The Critical Grip, ed. RalphJ .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 [285]: A Century in Focus: Photography and Photographers in the North of Ireland 1839-1939 by W. A. Maguire, reviewed by Hilary Pyle The Songs of Elizabeth Cronin: Irish Traditional Singer by D!iibhi 6 Cr6inin, reviewed by Maura Cronin All That You Can't Leave Behind by U2; Faith and Courage by Sinead O’Connor; reviewed by Gerry Smyth Celtic Identity and the British Image by Murray G. H. Pittock, reviewed by Willy Maley.


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