...Joe Cleary This article offers a sketch of contemporary Irish society as it prepares to mark the hundredth anniversary of the War of Independence, which opened in 1918. As Irish society negotiates the “decade of centenaries” and recalls a tumultuous period of social struggles and state formations...

.... Ironically, the UK state is currently facing more constitutional and even existential threats—Brexit, Scottish inde- pendence—than the Republic, which has shown remarkable resilience in weathering a fiscal crisis. After the centenary commemoration of the insurrection, it is help- ful to move...

... The decade of the nineties, as a whole, and each year in it, has reg- istered in Cuba a wealth of movements and returns, gains and losses, con- tinuities and changes that the urgency with which we live makes it very dif- ficult...

... than two decades after Hong Kong was ceded to Britain in 1842 in the First Opium War. Today, no visitor to Hong Kong can fail to note the rich variety of its colonial residua. Is the monumentalization of ‘‘Elgin’’ as a street name in the central part of Hong Kong, for example, an act...

... Rourke’s 1931 American Humor: A Study of the National Character, helped make available the mean- ing Ellison gave the term American in the passage I began from.6 Ellison now, nearly a decade after his death and almost ninety years after his birth, is a figure of compelling actuality in American...

... Finn As the centenary of the 1916 Rising approached, political elites on both sides of the Irish border were hoping for a backdrop of stability if not tedium while they cantered through a decade of emotionally charged anni- versaries. Yet in the wake of the global crash and its profound...

...Kevin Whelan Duke University Press 2004 The Revisionist Debate in Ireland Kevin Whelan Introduction Over the last three decades in Ireland, a vigorous, and at times vicious, historiographical debate has proceeded...

... in the issue dated August 24, 2000. See Li Chang- ping, Wo xiang zongli shuo shihua [I spoke the truth to the premier] (Beijing: Guangming ribao chubanshe, 2002), 20. . In 2004, the state refocused its attention on rural issues after decades of neglect. The state began by looking for ways...

... publication. Although the first book on Sebald in any language was published in 1995 a slim collection of newspaper reviews, interviews, and short essays (Loquai 1995) very little critical scrutiny followed in subsequent years. Germanic academics took more than a decade after Sebald emerged as a notable...