The “Hibernicising” of George Farquhar’s Plays after Irish Independence by DAVID CLARE

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Who has the Last Word? The Dead and their Lively Humour in Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille by Roxana Doncu

“…The speaking dead stand for the Gaelic rural communities whose language the political activist Ó Cadhain’s taught and promoted as the real repository of the idea of an Irish independent nation. The particular dialogic form of the novel, though seemingly experimental and difficult to comprehend, represents Ó Cadhain’s effort to establish democracy (lacking in the real post-independence Irish state), through the multiplicity of voice polyphony implies, at least at literary level. …”
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Analysing collective action : intersections of power, government and resistance by Meade, Rosemary Raphael

“…The research analyses the discourses of collective action as they have been expressed in key policy documents, in newspapers such as the Irish Independent and in the documents of protest of social movement organisations. …”
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Irish Nationalism as an Inspiration for American Zionists in the Early Twentieth Century: As exemplified by Boston Lawyer Louis D. Brandeis’s Speeches and Writings by Armin Langer

“…An article on this particular aspect of the intersection of Irish and Jewish history might be especially helpful since today the Irish independence movement is usually compared to the Palestinian resistance movement rather than to early Zionism.…”
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Military History from the Street: Richard S. Grayson, Dublin’s Great Wars: the First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution,Cambridge University Press, 2018 by Morrison, E

“…In Ireland and the Great War, the late Keith Jeffery argued that the 1914–18 conflict was an essential context for the Irish independence struggle, and that the Easter Rising (1916), the War of Independence (1919–21) and Civil War (1922–3) were integral parts of the same story.1 This is also the starting point of Dublin’s Great Wars, a ‘new military history’ and prosopography of British soldiers and Irish republicans who resided in Ireland’s capital city during these years. …”

Shadow Lives: Disrupting Gender Patterns in Kate O’Brien’s Mary Lavelle and Maeve Brennan’s The Visitor by Edward O’Rourke

“…The decades that followed Irish independence witnessed a doubling down of efforts to reinforce established gender roles and conservative systems of power in the fledgling state. …”
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Representing Éire by Pereira, L

“…Part of the conclusion is given over to tracing the legend's fate in adaptations since the advent of Irish independence. The chronological framework adopted allows a new perspective to emerge which reveals that the Deirdre legend provided a means of reflecting on the various cultural and political conflicts in which Irish identity has been implicated. …”

The minority voice by Tobin, R, Tobin, Robert

“…Very little indeed has been written about the generation of Southern Protestant intellectuals following them, those writers, journalists, academics and churchmen who were born around 1900 and who came of age in the decade following Irish Independence. Though few in number, these people represent an important facet of the young nation's cultural history and serve to refute the blanket assumption that the minority community had neither the will nor the ability to make a contribution to the new dispensation. …”