The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture

by Edited by Joe Cleary , Claire Connolly

• ISBN13: 9780521820097
• ISBN10: 052182009X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-07
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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. 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.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Notes on contributors	viii
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgements	xvii
Chronology	xviii
Map	liii
1 Introduction: Ireland and modernity	1
JOE CLEARY
Part I Cultural politics
2 The survival of the Union	25	(17)
ALVIN JACKSON
3 Language, ideology, and national identity	42	(17)
GEARÓID Ó TUATHAIGH
4 Religion, identity, state and society	59	(19)
TOM INGLIS
5 Republicanism, Nationalism and Unionism: changing contexts, cultures and ideologies	78	(18)
LIAM O'DOWD
6 Irish feminism	96	(21)
SIOBHÁN KILFEATHER
7 Migration and diaspora	117	(20)
MARY J. HICKMAN
8 The cultural effects of the Famine	137	(20)
KEVIN WHELAN
Part II Cultural practices and cultural forms
9 Modernism and the Irish revival	157	(16)
EMER NOLAN
10 Poetry in Ireland	173	(17)
BERNARD O'DONOGHUE
11 Irish sport	190	(16)
ALAN BAIRNER
12 Projecting the nation: cinema and culture	206	(19)
LUKE GIBBONS
13 Folk culture	225	(20)
DIARMUID Ó GIOLLÁIN
14 Irish prose fiction	245	(22)
PÁDRAIGIN RIGGS AND NORMAN VANCE
15 Irish music	267	(18)
LILLIS Ó LAOIRE
16 Modern architecture and national identity in Ireland	285	(19)
HUGH CAMPBELL
17 The visual arts in Ireland	304	(18)
FINTAN CULLEN
18 Irish theatre	322	(17)
CHRISTOPHER MORASH
Index	339