Irish Popular Culture 1650 1850

Author : James S. Donnelly,Kerby A. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000053374017

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Irish Popular Culture, 1650-1850 by James S. Donnelly,Kerby A. Miller Pdf

Ã?Â?Ã?«A book edited by two such distinguished historians as James S. Donnelly Jr., and Kerby A. Miller promises to be lively and important: this collection of ten essays fully lives up to the expectations raised by the editorial imprimatur. The articles by an impressive panel of authors are source-based, and the tight editorial control is reflected in the way in which they complement one another.Ã?Â?Ã?Â- American Historical Review

Author : Diarmuid Ó Giolláin
Publisher : Cork University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1859181694

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Locating Irish Folklore by Diarmuid Ó Giolláin Pdf

The first of its kind, Irish Folklore is a key text that uses Nordic ethnography methods and Latin American culture theory to explain how differing groups legitimise their own identities by identifying with notions drawn from folklore.

Author : Niall Ó Ciosáin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Popular culture
ISBN : 0333919521

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Print and Popular Culture in Ireland by Niall Ó Ciosáin Pdf

Author : Adriana Teodorescu,Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429589331

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Death in Contemporary Popular Culture by Adriana Teodorescu,Michael Hviid Jacobsen Pdf

With intense and violent portrayals of death becoming ever more common on television and in cinema and the growth of death-centric movies, series, texts, songs, and video clips attracting a wide and enthusiastic global reception, we might well ask whether death has ceased to be a taboo. What makes thanatic themes so desirable in popular culture? Do representations of the macabre and gore perpetuate or sublimate violent desires? Has contemporary popular culture removed our unease with death? Can social media help us cope with our mortality, or can music and art present death as an aesthetic phenomenon? This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the discussion of the social, cultural, aesthetic, and theoretical aspects of the ways in which popular culture understands, represents, and manages death, bringing together contributions from around the world focused on television, cinema, popular literature, social media and the internet, art, music, and advertising.

Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351922005

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Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England by Andrew Hadfield Pdf

1978 witnessed the publication of Peter Burke's groundbreaking study Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe. Now in its third edition this remarkable book has for thirty years set the benchmark for cultural historians with its wide ranging and imaginative exploration of early modern European popular culture. In order to celebrate this achievement, and to explore the ways in which perceptions of popular culture have changed in the intervening years a group of leading scholars are brought together in this new volume to examine Burke's thesis in relation to England. Adopting an appropriately interdisciplinary approach, the collection offers an unprecedented survey of the field of popular culture in early modern England as it currently stands, bringing together scholars at the forefront of developments in an expanding area. Taking as its starting point Burke's argument that popular culture was everyone's culture, distinguishing it from high culture, which only a restricted social group could access, it explores an intriguing variety of sources to discover whether this was in fact the case in early modern England. It further explores the meaning and significance of the term 'popular culture' when applied to the early modern period: how did people distinguish between high and low culture - could they in fact do so? Concluded by an Afterword by Peter Burke, the volume provides a vivid sense of the range and significance of early modern popular culture and the difficulties involved in defining and studying it.

Author : Ilaria Favretto,Xabier Itcaina
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137507372

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Protest, Popular Culture and Tradition in Modern and Contemporary Western Europe by Ilaria Favretto,Xabier Itcaina Pdf

Mock funerals, effigy parading, smearing with eggs and tomatoes, pot-banging and Carnival street theatre, arson and ransacking: all these seemingly archaic forms of action have been regular features of modern European protest, from the 19th to the 21st century. In a wide chronological and geographical framework, this book analyses the uses, meanings, functions and reactivations of folk imagery, behaviour and language in modern collective action. The authors examine the role of protest actors as diverse as peasants, liberal movements, nationalist and separatist parties, anarchists, workers, students, right-wing activists and the global justice movement. So-called traditional repertoires have long been described as residual and obsolete. This book challenges the conventional distinction between pre-industrial and post-1789 forms of collective action, which continues to operate as a powerful dichotomy in the understanding of protest, and casts new light on rituals and symbolic performances that, albeit poorly understood and deciphered, are integral to our protest repertoire.

Author : Andrew Sneddon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137319173

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Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland by Andrew Sneddon Pdf

This is the first academic overview of witchcraft and popular magic in Ireland and spans the medieval to the modern period. Based on a wide range of un-used and under-used primary source material, and taking account of denominational difference between Catholic and Protestant, it provides a detailed account of witchcraft trials and accusation.

Author : Christopher Collins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781349948727

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Theatre and Residual Culture by Christopher Collins Pdf

This book considers the cultural residue from pre-Christian Ireland in Synge’s plays and performances. By dramatising a residual culture in front of a predominantly modern and political Irish Catholic middle class audience, the book argues that Synge attempted to offer an alternative understanding of what it meant to be “modern” at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book draws extensively on Synge’s archive to demonstrate how pre-Christian residual culture informed not just how he wrote and staged pre-Christian beliefs, but also how he thought about an older, almost forgotten culture that Catholic Ireland desperately wanted to forget. Each of Synge’s plays is considered in an individual chapter, and they identify how Synge’s dramaturgy was informed by pre-Christian beliefs of animism, pantheism, folklore, superstition and magical ritual.

Author : M. Pittock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137278098

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Material Culture and Sedition, 1688-1760 by M. Pittock Pdf

Material Culture and Sedition, 1688-1760 is a groundbreaking study of the ways in which material culture (and its associated designs, rituals and symbols) was used to avoid prosecution for treason and sedition in the British Isles. The fresh theoretical model it presents challenges existing accounts of the public sphere and consumer culture.

Author : Sarah Covington,Valerie McGowan-Doyle,Vincent Carey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351242998

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Early Modern Ireland by Sarah Covington,Valerie McGowan-Doyle,Vincent Carey Pdf

Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods, and Perspectives offers fresh approaches and case studies that push the field of early modern Ireland, and of British and European history more generally, into unexplored directions. The centuries between 1500 and 1700 were pivotal in Ireland’s history, yet so much about this period has remained neglected until relatively recently, and a great deal has yet to be explored. Containing seventeen original and individually commissioned essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of leading and emerging scholars, this book covers a wide range of topics, including social, cultural, and political history as well as folklore, medicine, archaeology, and digital humanities, all of which are enhanced by a selection of maps, graphs, tables, and images. Urging a reevaluation of the terms and assumptions which have been used to describe Ireland’s past, and a consideration of the new directions in which the study of early modern Ireland could be taken, Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods, and Perspectives is a groundbreaking collection for students and scholars studying early modern Irish history.

Author : David Lloyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139503167

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Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity 1800–2000 by David Lloyd Pdf

From the Famine to political hunger strikes, from telling tales in the pub to Beckett's tortured utterances, the performance of Irish identity has always been deeply connected to the oral. Exploring how colonial modernity transformed the spaces that sustained Ireland's oral culture, this book explains why Irish culture has been both so creative and so resistant to modernization. David Lloyd brings together manifestations of oral culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing how the survival of orality was central both to resistance against colonial rule and to Ireland's modern definition as a postcolonial culture. Specific to Ireland as these histories are, they resonate with postcolonial cultures globally. This study is an important and provocative new interpretation of Irish national culture and how it came into being.

Author : Philip Connell,Nigel Leask
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521880121

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Romanticism and Popular Culture in Britain and Ireland by Philip Connell,Nigel Leask Pdf

An edited collection examining the construction of popular culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Author : William H. A. Williams
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857284075

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Creating Irish Tourism by William H. A. Williams Pdf

Based on the accounts of British and Anglo-Irish travelers, 'Creating Irish Tourism' charts the development of tourism in Ireland from its origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the country's emergence as a major European tourist destination a century later. The work shows how the Irish tourist experience evolved out of the interactions among travel writers, landlords, and visitors with the peasants who, as guides, jarvies, venders, porters and beggars, were as much a part of Irish tourism as the scenery itself.

Author : Chrissie Van Mierlo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472585967

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James Joyce and Catholicism by Chrissie Van Mierlo Pdf

James Joyce and Catholicism is the first historicist study to explore the religious cultural contexts of Joyce's final masterpiece. Drawing on letters, authorial manuscripts and other archival materials, the book works its way through a number of crucial themes; heresy, anticlericalism, Mariology, and others. Along the way, the book considers Joyce's vexed relationship with the Catholic Church he was brought up in, and the unique forms of Catholicism that blossomed in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and during the first years of the Irish Free State.

Author : Martin Dowling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317008408

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Traditional Music and Irish Society: Historical Perspectives by Martin Dowling Pdf

Written from the perspective of a scholar and performer, Traditional Music and Irish Society investigates the relation of traditional music to Irish modernity. The opening chapter integrates a thorough survey of the early sources of Irish music with recent work on Irish social history in the eighteenth century to explore the question of the antiquity of the tradition and the class locations of its origins. Dowling argues in the second chapter that the formation of what is today called Irish traditional music occurred alongside the economic and political modernization of European society in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Dowling goes on to illustrate the public discourse on music during the Irish revival in newspapers and journals from the 1880s to the First World War, also drawing on the works of Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Lacan to place the field of music within the public sphere of nationalist politics and cultural revival in these decades. The situation of music and song in the Irish literary revival is then reflected and interpreted in the life and work of James Joyce, and Dowling includes treatment of Joyce’s short stories A Mother and The Dead and the 'Sirens' chapter of Ulysses. Dowling conducted field work with Northern Irish musicians during 2004 and 2005, and also reflects directly on his own experience performing and working with musicians and arts organizations in order to conclude with an assessment of the current state of traditional music and cultural negotiation in Northern Ireland in the second decade of the twenty-first century.