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Stories from Ireland
A beautiful new edition of this charming collection of stories, myths, and legends from Ireland.
Postcolonial and Gender Perspectives in Irish Studies
This book represents an attempt to tackle questions related to fragmented and often conflicting ideologies within Irish studies. Although a collective outcome, with contributions in English and Spanish, its unifying concern has been the appliance of postcolonial and gender perspectives to the analysis of Irish literature (prose, drama and verse) and cinema, as well as to the aesthetic production of both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Along the volume, while some authors have chosen to delve into the broad theoretical debate concerning the position of Irish studies within postcolonial and feminist theories, others offer detailed examinations of specific literary pieces and authors that fit in this panorama. All in all, the chapters are wide and diverse enough to trace a spatial and temporal map of the evolution of these paradigms within contemporary Irish studies, North and South of the border.
Stories by Contemporary Irish Women
These short stories invite the reader to see Ireland afresh. Included are works by well-known authors such as Mary Lavin, Edna O'Brien, and Julia O'Faolain; the collection also showcases new writers such as Clare Boylan, Rita Kelly, and Una Woods. Repeatedly, the stories bring us up against the inherent contradiction of provincial Ireland and Ireland as a modern European state, and the complexities of women's lives in both. Helen Lucy Burke writes tellingly of an older, devout Irish Catholic woman as she encounters the startling realities of Italian Catholic Rome. Other stories also dwell on traditional Irish themes and situations through refreshingly varied voices. Ita Daly movingly portray...
Irish Myths and Legends
This volume is a collection of stories of magic and enchantment, full of kings, fairies, and heroes. It introduces the children of Lir, Deirdre, and King Balor and his evil eye.
Ellen
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All Fall Down
This is the story of the passions and preoccupations, the sin and the slapstick of contemporary Ireland's public and private life. The author's previous novels include "Ellen", "A Singular Attraction" and "Dangerous Fictions".
Narrative and Identity
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Gender Studies, grade: 2,7, University of Siegen, course: Narrative and Identity, language: English, abstract: The content of this work (take-away exam) deals with the features of narratives and identity and furthermore with the structures of unreliability/reliability. Peter Raggatt`s theory of the "dialogical self" and narrative and identity is explained and applied to Benjamin Zephaniah`s work "Face". Additionally Ita Daly`s "The Lady with the red shoes" is discussed on the basis of the concepts of (un)reliability.
I'll Drop You a Line
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