...Joe Cleary Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 joe Cleary Domestic Troubles: Tragedy and the Northern Ireland Conflict ^Xtmestic tragedy, conventionally associated with the sensibility ofthe emergent metropolitan middle classes, has never been held in very high esteem by Marxian...

...Lawrence J. Taylor Lawrence J. Taylor There Are Two Things that People Don t Like to Hear about Themselves : The Anthropology of Ireland and the Irish View of Anthropology M y title is derived from a quip by the late John Maloney, a wise publican of southwest Donegal. The year was 1973, and we...

...Gary T. Davenport Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Sean O Faolain s Troubles: Revolution and Provincialism in Modern Ireland Gary T. Davenport Yeats s famous assessment of the Easter Rising of 1916 All changed, changed utterly; / A terrible beauty is born 1 has proved...

...Mary Cogan Bromage Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 LITERATURE OF IRELAND TODAY MARY COGAN BROMAGE IN THE DAYS when the English ruled at Dublin Castle, Irish­ men were able to wander fancy free into the other world of legend and fabled history. Irish nationalism has now become...

...Arthur W. Bromage; Mary C. Bromage Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 THE GOOD SOCIETY IN IRELAND* ARTHUR W. BROMAGE and MARY C. BROMAGE THE FIRST question asked of any government today is whether it is democratic or dictatorial. A new state at once becomes suspect. The Irish...

...John S. Galbraith Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 THE UNITED STATES AND IRELAND,1916-20 JOHN S. GALBRAITH MERICANS of Irish descent have for the past century occupied xjL a strategic position in the politics of the United States, particu­ larly in the densely populated areas...

...Paul M. McCain Arthur Dobbs, Esquire, 1689-1765: Surveyor-General of Ireland, Prospector and Governor of North Carolina . By Clarke Desmond . Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1958 . Pp. 232 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 Book...

...Mary C. Bromage Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Ireland s Unfinished Revolution Mary C. Bromage For what does Ireland s centuries-old revolution still rage? When so much of liberation has been attained, what still remains? Why the scarcely intermitted killings and burnings...

... tradition and a cer­ tain family situation. This is an eminently appropriate concluding essay to a volume which in its content does real honor to an eminent scholar. THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, KNOXVILLE RICHARD BEALE DAVIS The Abbey: Ireland s National Theatre, 1904-1979. By Hugh Hunt. New York: Columbia...

... the scholarship by showing that sexual norms critically shape where and how states draw distinctions between legal and illegal status. In Ireland at the turn of the millennium, pregnant migrants were constructed as paradigmatic figures of illegal immigration, whose arrival and childbearing were to be prevented...

... caused uneasiness in London. If self-determination was to be an expressed war aim, what was to become of the colonial empire of Great Britain? Particularly what of Ireland, a country with a long tradition of opposition to British rule, a militant minority dedicated to complete independence, and a large...

...Luke Dodd Luke Dodd Famine Echoes The recent visit by Prince Charles to Ireland intensified British interest in the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s, although most commen­ tators missed the irony of the prince s chosen retreat in an area of County Mayo devastated by the Famine. Exactly 150 years...

...John Paul Waters John Paul Waters Introduction I n the autumn of 1800, during the last months of the Irish Parliament, Isaac Weld, Dublin Quaker, travel writer, apostle of the Enlighten­ ment in Ireland, gazed out from his boat of com­ pressed brown bark at the majestic scenery of the Lakes...

...John S. Galbraith Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 THE UNITED STATES, BRITAIN, AND THE CREATION OF THE IRISH FREE STATE JOHN S. GALBRAITH HE TROUBLES of Great Britain with Ireland before 1921 1 were domestic in form, but actually they were of Imperial, even of world, concern...

... on sensitive political issues that are a con­ dition of polite social conversation in Northern Ireland, observing that such constraints have left Northern Irish nationalists fork-tongued on the border bit. 1 The phrase is suggestive. Read in the diminutive, border bit suggests a reflex position on a jaded...

... alike been unable to solve. Each generation has had to work out a new Irish policy because the generation before had failed. In our own time the idea of gov­ erning Ireland in accordance with Irish ideas has taken form in such measures as the land and local government acts with the Unionist party...

... tained to facilitate the reunification of Ireland at some future date. Meanwhile, de Valera negotiated a new Anglo-Irish Agreement with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in 1938 whereby the London Government consented unconditionally to the return of forts Anglo-Irish Relations During World War...

... is one of the comprehensive works of fiction to come out of Ireland in the last thirty-five years, and the other two novels, while possessing defects and limitations, contain so much fine characterization and perceptive commentary on twentieth-century Erin s political, social, and religious difficulties...

...Mary C. Bromage Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 De VALERA S MISSION TO AMERICA MARY C. BROMAGE THE EXACT position which Ireland was to play in the future of a changing world was presented to the American public in the years 1919 and 1920 by the key personage of that small...

... long been interested in such intersecting as­ pects of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, Gaelic/Celtic, and Greek culture as myth, tragedy, and the oral tra­ dition. When I also became aware of her Irish ancestry and intense interest in Ireland s his- The South Atlantic Quarterly 98:1/2, Winter/Spring 1999...