Browsing Studies in Arts and Humanities Journal - Vol 2, No 1 (2016) by Title
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The Making and Remaking of Irish History: An Interview with Vincent Comerford
(SAHKartell, 2016)On Tuesday, 26 April 2016, I sat down with former head of History at Maynooth University, Professor Vincent Comerford, to chat about the current state of the discipline, about changes within history over time and the telling ... -
Marginalizing Memory: Political Commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising
(SAHKartell, 2016)The recent centenary commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising were notable for the considerable effort the Irish government put into making them inclusive. However, inclusiveness in this context masks the fact that the ... -
The Minister For Poetry Has Decreed
(SAHKartell, 2016)...after Zbigniew Herbert. A new poem by Kevin Higgins. -
Ó Chéitinn go Conradh: Rising the Revivalists to 1916
(SAHKartell, 2016)Was the Gaelic League the ‘breeding ground’ for the IRB? Was the Irish language the Language of the Revolution? These parting words from the O’Rahilly (Ua Rathghaille) border on absurd black humour but like so many other ... -
Patrick Pearse: Psychobiographical Reflections on an Enigmatic, Paradoxical Personality
(SAHKartell, 2016)To date historians have focused almost exclusively on Patrick Pearse’s key role in the 1916 Easter Rising to the extent that there is much less information about his personality development and characteristics. They have ... -
Staging the Easter Rising: Plays by W.B. Yeats, Sean O’Casey and Colm Tóibín
(SAHKartell, 2016)Despite the fact that the 1916 Easter Rising has given rise to many critical inquiries and occasioned heated debate among nationalist and revisionist historians, this historical event has been revered almost as a creation ...