The Cambridge companion to modern Irish culture / edited by Joe Cleary and Claire Connolly.
Contributor(s): Cleary, Joe (Joseph N.) | Connolly, Claire.
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BookSeries: Cambridge companions to culture: Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005Description: xvi, 363 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 052182009X; 9780521820097; 0521526299; 9780521526296.Subject(s): Arts, Irish -- 19th century | Arts, Irish -- 20th century | European history | Cultural studies | Ireland | Literary studies: general | History
| Ireland -- Civilization -- 20th century -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Ireland -- Civilization -- 19th century -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 19th century | Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 941.508 CAM Summary: 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.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of illustrations (p. vii)
- Notes on contributors (p. viii)
- Preface (p. xiii)
- Acknowledgements (p. xvii)
- Chronology (p. xviii)
- Map (p. liii)
- 1 Introduction: Ireland and modernity (p. 1)
- Part I Cultural politics
- 2 The survival of the Union (p. 25)
- 3 Language, ideology and national identity (p. 42)
- 4 Religion, identity, state and society (p. 59)
- 5 Republicanism, Nationalism and Unionism: changing contexts, cultures and ideologies (p. 78)
- 6 Irish feminism (p. 96)
- 7 Migration and diaspora (p. 117)
- 8 The cultural effects of the Famine (p. 137)
- Part II Cultural practices and cultural forms
- 9 Modernism and the Irish revival (p. 157)
- 10 Poetry in Ireland (p. 173)
- 11 Irish sport (p. 190)
- 12 Projecting the nation: cinema and culture (p. 206)
- 13 Folk culture (p. 225)
- 14 Irish prose fiction (p. 245)
- 15 Irish music (p. 267)
- 16 Modern architecture and national identity in Ireland (p. 285)
- 17 The visual arts in Ireland (p. 304)
- 18 Irish theatre (p. 322)
- Index (p. 339)