“Young Men of Erin, Our Dead Are Calling”: Death, Immortality and the Otherworld in Modern Irish Republican Ballads
Irish physical-force Republicanism has long been noted for its tendency to promote the tropes of martyrdom and immortality as core tenets of its ideological belief system. This essay sets out to examine the genre of Republican death ballads so as to identify how such essentialist concepts are repres...
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| Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2017-06-01
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| Series: | Studi Irlandesi |
| Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-sijis/article/view/7289 |