Recently added articles from Irish Literary Supplement:
The story of a shame.(Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... JAMES M. SMITH Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment. University of Notre Dame Press, 2007, $28.00. A SECRET SHAME of post-independent Ireland was its treatment f unwed mothers and children born out of wedlock, ...
Casting a blind aye.(An Irish Eye)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... GERRY ADAMS An Irish Eye Dingle: Brandon Books; Dufour Editions, 2007 ENCOMPASSING WHAT MAY WELL turn out to be one of the most important three-year periods in Northern Irish history, Gerry Adams's An Irish Eye is a fascinating, if at times uneven, ...
From Ballykilcline to Rutland.(Ballykilcline Rising: From Famine Ireland To Immigrant America)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... MARY LEE DUNN Ballykilcline Rising: From Famine Ireland To Immigrant America Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008, $29.95 Paper, $80 Cloth IN Ballykilcline Rising." From Famine Ireland to Immigrant America, Mary Lee Dunn uses a wide variety of ...
Representations of Bloody Sunday.(After Bloody Sunday: Representation, Ethics, Justice)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... TOM HERRON AND JOHN LYNCH After Bloody Sunday: Representation, Ethics, Justice Cork University Press, 2007 IN THE INTRODUCTION TO After Bloody Sunday Tom Herron and John Lynch begin by asking "Why another book on Bloody Sunday?" As they themselves remind ...
Becoming Irish in Detroit City.(Life with Mae: A Detroit Family Memoir)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... NEAL SHINE Life with Mae A Detroit Family Memoir Wayne State University Press, 2007, $24.95 BORN IN 1909, a native of Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, Mary Ellen (Mae) Conlon was a servant in the town's upper-class homes; her father operated ...
Changing with the times.(The Irish Times: A History)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... MARK O'BRIEN The Irish Times--A History Four Courts Press, 2008, 35 [euro] THE HISTORY OF A NEWSPAPER IS not merely the history of the institution itself. Rather it is a history of the intellectual, political and cultural environment of its age. In the ...
Everyday life.(Social Change and Everyday Life in Ireland, 1850-1922)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... CAITRIONA CLEAR. Social Change and Everyday Life in Ireland, 1850-1922. Manchester University Press, 2007 (U.S. distributor, Palgrave). $24.95. THIS SURVEY ORIGINATED in an undergraduate course at University College, Galway, entitled "gender, work, and ...
Smile when you say that.(The Irish American Myth of the Frontier West)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... MARGUERITE QUINTELLI-NEARY The Irish American Myth of the Frontier West Academica Press. Dublin, Bethesda, Palo Alto, 2008 I'VE JUST MADE ANOTHER of many transcontinental drives. It's a threshold experience every time, going west, yielding a mind-set ...
The Center for Irish Programs at Boston College.
Mar 22, 2009; ... IRISH STUDIES: * Boston College and Queens University Belfast have initiated an annual faculty exchange in which an Irish Studies scholar from each school will visit the other's campus to deliver a paper for faculty and graduate students, and conduct research in the respective ...
Celebrating Irish women in history.(Ariadne's Thread: Writing Women into Irish History)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... MARGARET MACCURTAIN Ariadne's Thread: Writing Women into Irish History Arlen House, 2008, IT WAS A MOMENTOUS EVENT when admirers by the hundreds gathered at Dublin's Old City Hall on 8 March 2008 to celebrate Dr. Margaret MacCurtain and her fascinating ...
Changing Ireland.(Grand Opportunity: The Gaelic Revival and Irish Society, 1893-1910)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... TIMOTHY G. MCMAHON Grand Opportunity. The Gaelic Revival and Irish Society, 1893-1910 Syracuse University Press, 2008 TIMOTHY G. MCMAHON'S Grand Opportunity." The Gaelic Revival and Irish Society 1893-1910 is a welcome addition to the small but steadily ...
Sex education.(Asking for Trouble: The Story of an Escapade with Disproportionate Consequences)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... PATRICIA CRAIG Asking for Trouble: The Story of an Escapade with Disproportionate" Consequences, Blackstaff, 2007, 8.99 [pounds sterling]. ST. DOMINIC'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL for Girls in Belfast has a welcoming note on its current website: "We want our girls to be happy confident ...
From death to renewal.(Essays on Modern Irish Literature)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... JOHN STRACHAN AND ALISON O'MALLEY-YOUNGER, EDITORS. Essays on Modern Irish Literature. University of Sunderland Press, 2007 12.95 [pounds sterling]. THE UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND has hosted a successful annual Irish Studies conference since 2002. This ...
Writing of a different country.(The Deportees and Other Stories)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... RODDY DOYLE The Deportees and Other Stories Viking, 2008, $24.98 IN THE LATE 1980S AND INTO the early 1990s, Roddy Doyle published a trio of novels about the working-class family of Jimmy Rabbitte Sr., an endearingly average father and husband from the ...
The uneasy balance.(The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... DANIEL TOBIN The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Notre Dame Press, 2007, $65.00 AS A CONFLUX OF NATIVE and immigrant cultures, America struggles with the uneasy balance between assimilation and difference. This ...
Letters to the editor.(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009; ... To the editor, In the Fall 2008 issue, Helen Lojek writes of Tom Maguire's Making Theatre in Northern Ireland, that "Maguire has seen productions of these plays and has brought to that seeing a perspective informed by theory and experience. The result is an approach very ...
Filling the gaps.(Irish Literature - The Nineteenth Century: An Annotated Anthology)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... PETER VAN DE KAMP AND NORMAN JEFFARES EDITORS Irish Literature. The Nineteenth Century: An Annotated Anthology Vols. II & III Irish Academic Press, 2007 I MUST BEGIN BY EXPRESSING my thanks to Maureen Mulvihill, whose review of the companion ...
Unlikely bedfellows.(Irish Fiction Since the 1960s)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... ELMER KENNEDY-ANDREWS, EDITOR Irish Fiction Since the 1960s Colin Smythe, Limited: 2006, 40.00 [pounds sterling] In his introduction to Irish Fiction Since the 1960s, Elmer Kennedy-Andrews outlines an ambitious project: the unifying aim of the collection ...
They said it.(newspapers' book review sections)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009; ... "NEWSPAPERS ARE CRASHING all around us, and one of the things they are doing, in a desperate bid to save money, is cutting back their Sunday book review sections: the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Hartford Courant have all reduced their book sections. Recent rumblings from the ...
The dominant tradition.(James Joyce's Negations: Irony, Indeterminacy and Nihilism in Ulysses and: Other Writings)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... BRIAN COSGROVE James Joyce's Negations: Irony, Indeterminacy and Nihilism in Ulysses and: Other Writings University College Dublin Press, 2007, 60 [euro] THE OPENING PAGES OF Brian Cosgrove s study, James Joyce's Negations." Irony, Indeterminacy and ...