Recently added articles from Irish Feminist Review:
Introduction
Dec 01, 2007; LoPrete, Kimberly ... Welcome to volume three of the Irish Feminist Review, the last actively edited by Rebecca Pelan with the expert editorial and production assistance of Vivienne Batt. As many readers are aware, Rebecca has migrated from Galway to Dublin and Vivienne to another post at NUI, Galway. In this time of ...
The 'E(ve)' in The(e)ories: Dreamreading Sedgwick in Retrospective Time
Dec 01, 2007; Giffney, Noreen; O'Rourke, Michael ... 'The(e)ories' is an interdisciplinary seminar series, which has been convened by us at University College Dublin since 2002, though the term 'seminar series' is something of a misnomer since 'The(e)ories' also includes conferences, symposia and roundtable discussions, and is devoted to exploring ...
A NEW PICTURE: EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK'S BETWEEN MEN
Dec 01, 2007; Mentxaka, Aintzane Legarreta ... Introduction Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick presented the notion of homosocial desire in 1985 in her introduction to what was ostensibly a book of literary criticism, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, which investigates bonds between men as depicted in a number of ...
In The I of The Beholder? Paranoia, Reparation and Queer Ethics in the Work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Dec 01, 2007; Inckle, Kay ... Introduction Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick reflects upon the mechanisms by which "paranoia" and "the hermeneutics of suspicion"1 have permeated the academic context and become the primary lens through which knowledge production takes place. For Sedgwick, paranoia is a destructive strategy which ...
Angels of History
Dec 01, 2007; McCotter, Clare ... His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned towards the past. Walter Benjamin I Winds the colour of azure stirring snow - in Caliban dreams I have felt the breath ...
Hotel
Dec 01, 2007; McCotter, Clare ... The travelling man returned last night with Dead Sea salt still in his hair. As we sipped a map or two trains began to flow down lines that no train knew in fifty years. With bag and polished route we watched in creaking silence for some ...
The Land of Witch's Heart's Desire: Ontological Flickers in Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats...
Dec 01, 2007; Balinisteanu, Mihai Tudor ... Brian McHaIe argues that postmodern historical fiction creates "ontological flickers" between worlds represented through official records of events and apocryphal versions of these: "one moment, the official version seems to be eclipsed by the apocryphal version; the next moment, it is the ...
In the Mountains
Dec 01, 2007; Phelan, Sheila ... I struggle up the hill after a night with my classmates and sit in the kitchen eating cheese and bread, miserable in the dark. At the weekend we stay with the families. My French is poor. Isabel plays with her friends at the ...
Learning the Craft
Dec 01, 2007; Phelan, Sheila ... i.m. James Plunkett Everything was new. No. Everything was in tatters. The old film centre falling down around us. I was new, up from College seeking another life, with a secret compulsive desire to write. Five or six ...
Autograph
Dec 01, 2007; McCotter, Clare ... for Kilph Scurlock, Kilkenny 2006 Falling from a nest of stars a young boy cried: 'move the fucking speakers Bob'. I there, like him, to see the poet occult black-suited maestro. But in the naked sky your name remained, a small neon bird weaving ...
Reflections in Publications: Are Women (In)visible Today?
Dec 01, 2007; Walsh, Kathleen Moore; Walsh, Louise ... One picture is said to be worth a thousand words. In the autumn of 2003, a Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT)1 alumni magazine, Alumni Matters, was launched and distributed to alumni and staff of WIT. The magazine itself is a high-quality, colourful production of twenty-eight pages, ...
Ulster Protestant Women Writers: A Case Study of Mrs. F.E Crichton and The Precepts of Andy Saul
Dec 01, 2007; Doak, Naomi ... The scene is Belfast at the beginning of the twentieth century. A bustling, commercial city situated in the North-East of Ireland, Victorian Belfast boasted the world's largest shipyard, rope-works and tobacco factory. Then, a unique city in Ireland not only because of its thriving industry, but ...
'The Blood Stays on the Blade': An Analysis of Irish-American Masculinities in the Films of Martin Scorsese
Dec 01, 2007; Molony, Sinéad ... This article looks at patriarchal structures of white Irish-American masculinity as portrayed in two of auteur Martin Scorsese's films, Gangs of New York (2002, USA), and The Departed (2006, USA). The Irish-American masculinity depicted in these films is defined against racial and gendered ...
Opening the Field: Irish Women, Texts and Contexts
Dec 01, 2007; Bracken, Claire ... Opening the Field: Irish Women, Texts and Contexts. Patricia Boyle Haberstroh and Christine St. Peter, eds. Cork: Cork UP, 2007. 181pps. The last twenty-five years have seen the development of a productive and generative critical feminist field of Irish women's writing, both in terms of ...
The Story of Chicago May
Dec 01, 2007; Anifant, Adrienne ... Nuala O'Faolain, The Story of Chicago May. Riverhead Publishers. 368pp Hardback. 2005. Paperback Nov. 2006. I was excited at the prospect of reading Nuala O'Faolain's The Story of Chicago May, not least because, finally, I thought, here is a book that presents a real-life story of a ...
Emily Lawless 1845-1913: Writing the Interspace
Dec 01, 2007; Ingman, Heather ... Heidi Hansson, Emily Lawless 1845-1913: Writing the Interspace. Cork UP, 2007. ISBN 978-1-85918-413-4, 272pp. Critical work on Irish women writers has increased steadily following publication of Volumes IV and V of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. The last year alone saw the ...