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The Tip: Shoe Shops, American Dreams, and the Ultimate Irish-American Hard Luck Story
(SAHKartell, 2015)The Brockton-Irish story may, in many respects, be representative of Irish-American neighborhoods located in large urban centers of immigrant Irish settlement, but we need to know more about life in the smaller ethnic Irish ... -
Once a Villain Always a Villain: Edmund’s “Reformation” in King Lear, 5.3.241-42
(SAHKartell, 2015)The article examines possible motives behind the alleged change of heart shown by Edmund at the end of King Lear when, defeated by his brother Edgar, he decides to revoke his former order to execute Lear and Cordelia. ... -
Living on the Hyphen: How Elizabeth Bowen Portrays the Predicament of the Anglo-Irish in The Last September
(SAHKartell, 2015)This paper explores the portrayal of the Anglo-Irish in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September. Bowen writes from personal experience with a strong sense of irony to explore the relationships of this declining class and their ... -
Saudade in the City: Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane
(SAHKartell, 2017)Set 40 years in the future, the once great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is in terminal decline, with vice and tribal splits rife. Logan Hartnett, godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang has been in charge but ... -
Psychoanalysing Theresa: Telling It Slant in Alice McDermott’s Child of My Heart
(SAHKartell, 2017)Psychoanalytic theory, as explained by Esther Rashkin, combines with literary analysis to understand the driving force that motivates a character to tell a story. Such is the case for understanding the first-person narrator ...