Ireland and the North

ISBN-13: 9781788742894 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 326 str.

Fionna Barber; Heidi Hansson; Sara Dybris McQuaid

Opis

Ireland and the North is engaged with the relationship between Ireland and the Nordic countries. Chapters include a wide-range of areas including art history, literary history and theory, archaeology, antiquarianism, media studies and political analysis. The book moves beyond the predominant literary paradigm in Irish Studies, expanding the field.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Ciaran McDonough: «Ireland and Denmark Are Specially to Be Named»: The Connections between Irish and Danish Antiquarians in the Nineteenth Century - Maria Panum Baastrup: Cultural Encounters Between the Vikings and the Insular West: Foreign Artefacts in the Hands of Vikings - Fionna Barber: Severance: Rita Duffy's Paintings and the Affective Arctic - Stephen Joyce: Experiencing Northern Ireland as Game of Thrones Destination - Andrew Newby: «A True Friend of Scandinavia»: Michael Davitt's Northern Travels of Summer 1904 - Sara Dybris McQuaid: Better Together? Comparative Perspectives on Regional Cooperation in the British-Irish and Nordic Contexts - Stephen Hopkins: Dublin Provisionals Remember the Northern Ireland «Troubles»: Irish Republican Memoir-Writing and Southern Perspectives - Eugene O'Brien: The Rhetoric of Grammar and the Grammar of Rhetoric: An Apophantic Reading of Seamus Heaney's North - Anne Karhio: «Strange Woods and Seas»: W. B. Yeats, the Kalevala and Repurposing Folk Literature - Julie Anne Stevens: Reclaiming the Norse Myths: Padraic Colum's The Children of Odin (1920) and the Keary Sisters' The Heroes of Asgard (1871) - Eoghan Smith: Revivalism, Modernism and Beyond: Scandinavian Influences on Irish Literature - David Gray/John Foster: Freedom and the North: Constance Malleson's Lifelong Pursuit.

O autorze

Fionna Barber is Reader in Art History at the Manchester School of Art. She is the author of Art in Ireland since 1910 (2013).

Heidi Hansson is Professor of English Literature and Deputy Vice Chancellor of Umeå University, Sweden. She has published widely on both Irish literature and northern and Arctic literature.

Sara Dybris McQuaid (PhD) is Director for the Centre for Irish Studies and Associate Professor in British and Irish History, Society and Culture at Aarhus University. She is also a core research partner in Centre for Resolution of International Conflicts at Political Science University of Copenhagen.