The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture

Cambridge University Press

This Companion provides an authoritative introduction to the historical, social and stylistic complexities of modern Irish culture. Readers will be introduced to Irish culture in its widest sense and helped to find their way through the cultural and theoretical debates that inform our understanding of modern Ireland. The volume combines cultural breadth and historical depth, supported by a chronology of Irish history and arts. A wide selection of essays on a rich variety of Irish cultural forms and practices are complemented by a series of in-depth analyses of key themes in Irish cultural politics. The range of topics covered will enable a comprehensive understanding of Irish culture, while the authors gathered here - all acknowledged experts in their fields - provide stimulating essays that together amount to an invaluable guide to the shaping of modern Ireland.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cleary, Joe

Connolly, Claire

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhalt

List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; 1. Introduction: Ireland and modernity Joe Cleary; Part I. Cultural Politics: 2. The survival of the Union Alvin Jackson; 3. Language, ideology and national identity Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh; 4. Religion, identity, state and society Tom Inglis; 5. Republicanism, Nationalism and Unionism: changing contexts, cultures and ideologies Liam O'Dowd; 6. Irish feminism Siobhán Kilfeather; 7. Migration and diaspora Mary J. Hickman; 8. The cultural effects of the famine Kevin Whelan; Part II. Cultural Practices and Cultural Forms: 9. Modernism and the Irish revival Emer Nolan; 10. Poetry in Ireland Bernard O'Donoghue; 11. Irish sport Alan Bairner; 12. Projecting the nation: cinema and culture Luke Gibbons; 13. Folk culture Diarmuid Ó Giolláin; 14. Irish prose fiction Pádraigín Riggs and Norman Vance; 15. Irish music Lillis Ó Laoire; 16. Modern architecture and national identity in Ireland Hugh Campbell; 17. The visual arts in Ireland Fintan Cullen; 18. Irish theatre Christopher Morash; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Cleary, Joe
Joe Cleary lectures in English literature at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Professor Connolly, Claire
Claire Connolly lectures in English Literature and Cultural Criticism at Cardiff University.